Purchased for $757 million in 2000, the GetThere corporate booking tool is hardly mentioned in Sabre’s annual reports. The TripCase mobile app isn’t mentioned at all. As usual, neither came up during this morning’s earnings conference call. Along with Sabre’s virtual payments offering, these products have bounced around inside Sabre and had four leaders in less than three years. Amid…
Serko since October switched over 1,100 accounts in Australia and New Zealand to its new self-booking tool, Zeno, from pre-existing Serko Online. The next stop is North America, where beta tests are planned for next month. The company intends to roll out Zeno in the market in May or June. Zeno has many features found in typical corporate self-booking technology,…
Business travel startup Pana is eyeing profitability next quarter after narrowing its focus to a seemingly underappreciated and underserved population in corporate travel: non-employees. Contractors, suppliers, board members, prospects, family members and job candidates have many similar needs, but it’s employed business travelers for whom companies design policies and procedures. Firms employ workarounds to address other constituents, but many travel…
A once prominent physician is due Dec. 4 at a medium-security prison in Otisville, N.Y., to serve a 366-day sentence for unlawfully obtaining more than half a million dollars in travel expense reimbursements. Dr. Jean-Francois “Jeff” Geschwind this summer admitted to multiple occasions of falsifying expense reports during an eight-year span ending in 2015, according to a U.S. Justice Department…
Sometimes the things we write about peter out. Sometimes more developments happen, but they don’t warrant an entirely new article. In other cases, something unexpected or counterintuitive is noteworthy in its continuance. Hence, the Updates post. Click to jump to United’s self-service portal enhancements, the next step for an emerging college-level corporate travel education program, Advito’s expanding collaboration with Cisco,…
When you spend more than $1 billion annually on dining, it’s wise to sign up for programs that could kick back millions. It’s especially appreciated if the money you’re spending is from taxpayers. That’s why the U.S. Department of Defense Travel Management Office plans to pilot a dining rewards program. On DOD’s behalf, the Defense Human Resources Activity Contracting Directorate…
One-On-One With John Snyder July 13, 2017 John Snyder spoke with us extensively about challenges in airline distribution. He also touched on BCD Travel’s efforts to grow access to hotel content, its relationship with Concur, how the TMC role will evolve, outsourcing, the TMC P&L, the…
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