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Analysts Examine Journera, SalesTrip, TravelBank, TravelPerk And TripActions

A trio of industry consultants took time out this month to join The Company Dime’s Jay Campbell and assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for a quintet of business travel startups. In general, they said, this crop has good prospects. Below are summaries of comments by Twelve Squared Growth’s Mitch Gross, Festive Road consultant Aurélie Krau and Amadeus For Startups…

In Memoriam: Bill Tech

Omaha, Neb. – With the passing of Bill Tech last week, Travel and Transport lost more than a chairman and former executive — we lost a dearly loved member of our company’s family. With his outsized personality and love of others, it was impossible to know Bill for more than five minutes and not want…

A Few Minutes With GoldSpring Consulting, Episode 2

Thanks for your interest in our new audio series in which we interview the industry veterans at GoldSpring Consulting about developments in travel management. In this second installment, recorded March 18, 2019, GoldSpring partner Will Tate talks to The Company Dime’s Jay Campbell about Southwest Airlines’ upcoming requirements for using credit cards online, supplier promotions sanctioned by clients like Microsoft…

A Few Minutes With GoldSpring Consulting, Episode 1

Welcome to a new audio feature as The Company Dime interviews the industry veterans at GoldSpring Consulting about developments in travel management. In this first installment, recorded Feb. 7, 2019, GoldSpring partner Neil Hammond talks to Jay Campbell about industry activity in which providers seek more ownership of the user experience. Here’s an index of topics on the roughly 11-minute…

A Few Minutes With ECPAT’s Michelle Guelbart

Jay Campbell last week met with ECPAT director of private sector engagement Michelle Guelbart to discuss the organization’s mission to fight sexual exploitation of children, sex trafficking and labor trafficking. On the 10-minute recording playable below, Guelbart talks about ECPAT’s Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct, recent U.S. federal legislation partly modeled after it, how the issue makes…

A Few Minutes With Hotel Safety And Security Expert Paul Moxness

Jay Campbell last week spoke for about nine minutes with consultant Paul Moxness, one of the world’s leading experts on risk management in lodging. Formerly Radisson’s VP for corporate safety and security, Moxness argued for greater transparency on risks in lodging. “Security is cheap,” he said. “It’s the incidents that are expensive.” Rather than spending on shiny technology as the…

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