It isn't easy to make a going concern out of selling standalone corporate self-booking software. Commenting last year on why he didn't want to be in that business, veteran travel tech exec Greg Webb, CEO of Travelport, couldn't resist using the word commodity. He said corporate booking tools were often part of broader solutions and mentioned travel and expense software developers SAP Concur and Serko.

Locomote, the corporate booking tool developer that Travelport majority-owned as of 2015 and sold . . .

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Jay Campbell

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.

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