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New Flight Centre Member Group Addresses Travel Agency Pain Points With Platform Play

ByJay Campbell

The rationale behind a travel agency consortium in Australia announced Thursday by Flight Centre Travel Group mirrors the major dynamics impacting travel agencies and supports the company’s diversification. Group members serving both business and leisure travelers would use Flight Centre as a platform. Broadly speaking, the “invitation-only” Link Travel Group follows on the widespread desire to better serve small business…

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Emburse Adapts Roadmap App For Smaller Clients

ByDavid Jonas

Spend management company Emburse released a mobile app for managing “every aspect” of a business trip. The Emburse Go digital companion for iOS and Android devices is a scalable, down-market, less customized version of the Roadmap app that Emburse acquired in 2021. It’s available for a spending-based fee to Emburse’s 16,000 small and medium-sized expense management customers. Roadmap is now…

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Amadeus Taps Into Collaboration Trends With Cytric Booking Tool

ByDavid Jonas

Is this the year that the Amadeus Cytric online self-booking and expense management system makes a North American splash? The company has big plans and claims some fish on the hook. On Tuesday, Amadeus announced new integration with Microsoft to bring Cytric to users of Teams and Outlook.  Those connections follow a wider Amadeus-Microsoft partnership, announced last year, centered on…

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Deem Builds Unique Uber For Business Integration Into Corporate Travel Site And Apps

ByDavid Jonas

If all goes according to plan, Deem’s corporate booking tool and mobile apps this summer will be the first of their kind to allow Uber for Business users to book scheduled and on-demand rides. According to Deem head of mobility Nikolaj Koester, about nine in 10 trips through ridehailing companies are on-demand. “You’ve never been able to actually get an…

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Now Focused On Expense, SalesTrip Sticks With Salesforce Play

ByJay Campbell

Sales trips may not really be happening yet, but SalesTrip is still kicking. Like some other business travel startups, it refocused on expense management after the pandemic smashed travel bookings. Unlike some others that were acquired, it shrank and kept at it.  The formerly 24-person company is so much slimmer that a request last month through its website chat function…

TravelPerk: Costs Are Five Times Less Than Those Of ‘Normal’ TMCs

ByJay Campbell

TravelPerk’s valuation tops $1 billion partly because its per-trip costs are five times lower than those of traditional travel management companies, according to its chief commercial officer. “TripActions and TravelPerk are measured like Software-as-a-Service companies, such as Workday, Slack or Zendesk, and not like an Amex or a more traditional travel company,” said TravelPerk CCO Jean-Christophe Taunay-Bucalo during a Wednesday…

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Tools Emerge To Help Travelers, Buyers And Bosses Decide Whether To Go Or Stay

ByJay Campbell

To stay or go? To meet and how? What’s it worth? Risk calculators from academics and others are helping members of the general population make up their minds about going out and doing things. Decision fatigue applies to business development, networking and training as much as it does holiday family gatherings. If you have had enough, maybe you can leave…

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