Amercian Express Global Business Travel made a “binding offer” to buy Expedia’s Egencia and Expedia agreed to “become a shareholder in, and enter a long-term strategic commercial agreement” with GBT. That includes GBT’s use of Expedia’s hotel program. “GBT would continue to invest in the Egencia brand, its people and technology, as part of the world’s leading business travel platform,”…
Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.
