[UPDATE: Aug. 18, 2017: Direct Travel acquired S.R. Travel Service of San Francisco. Terms were not announced. A statement from Direct Travel West region president Helen Leon noted plans to expand “VIP and elite” services. Direct claims $4 billion in sales and offices in 60 locations.] The creators of TripActions think they have a slick reservations app, a fun incentive…
Big U.S. airlines sell lots of add-ons. Business travelers crave several of them. They get some from status or their company’s travel program. Bundles and fare families can deliver them, too. Ascribing dollar values to these value-adds can be challenging. Reports from the Big Three airlines help make the case about the usefulness of their corporate relationships. Delta last month…
Wyndham Worldwide has made fewer headlines on book-direct programs than some competitors, but it has one too. Asked in an interview how companies should respond when these campaigns impact support for managed travel programs, an exec last week offered what some may see as an insensitive or unrealistic answer: non-reimbursement. Reading it there makes it seem like Wyndham SVP for global…
Uber and Lyft mastered the technology to make the on-demand car experience simple and nearly immediate. Traditional black car operators are trying to do the same. But their world is a complicated patchwork of platforms, patents and partnerships. No initiative has unified the industry, and more pop up all the time. Sorting out on-demand capabilities means aggregating supply across providers…
[UPDATE, June 10: Amadeus clarified comments on NDC, which may have given some readers the wrong impression. This article contains revised quotes.] Egencia in March began selling bag checks online to European customers. It’s another example of a corporate travel distributor making gains on access to ancillary airline options. In partnership with Amadeus, the service is available on 14 airlines….
Given the intensity of its people’s travel, The Boston Consulting Group is not known as a stickler on expenses. But relatively flexible policies and willingness to spend on better services aren’t everything. Ease of process is important, too. BCG head of global travel Gehan Colliander said the company is moving toward a more employee-centric travel program. Some observers would interpret…
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