Three travel management companies this week displayed varying degrees of interest in booking tool provider nuTravel's plan to integrate with mobile app developers. NuTravel's first partner, United Kingdom-based Mantic Point, provides apps to corporate agencies including Direct Travel, Executive Travel and FCm Travel Solutions. Officials with Direct Travel and FCm said they were considering the opportunity; Executive sees the partnership as its answer to client demand for mobile bookings.

Providers like Concur and Egencia enabled them years ago, but not everyone thinks business travelers want to make smartphone bookings. Some cite the "small real estate" on a . . .

The full content is available to subscribers

Reminder: As per our Subscriber Agreement, reproduction or distribution of content and sharing user names and passwords are strictly prohibited.

SubscriptionsAnd FREE TRIAL

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.