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Walmart Seeks Patent On Corporate Travel Contract Optimization

When you’re a big corporation, you can get nice volume discounts. When you’re the biggest, you get to reinvent how they’re used. Walmart seems to be at it again. The $524 billion retailer’s tech group built something specifically to optimize utilization of, negotiations for and supplier compliance to travel contracts. In spring 2019, the company…

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How Did North America Lift CTM’s Performance?

For the first six months of this year, North America accounted for more of Australia-based Corporate Travel Management’s revenue than any other region. That was a first. The 26-year-old travel management company entered North America in 2012 when it acquired Polk Majestic Travel. Subsequent acquisitions grew the operation, and during the first half of 2020,…

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As Travel Managers Review Tech Stacks, SAP Rebuilds Concur Travel

Overshadowed by the novel coronavirus, SAP Concur in March revealed that this year it would rebuild its legacy travel booking tool. As Concur embarks on a redo that some call overdue, it won’t be the only fresh interface on the market. Serko and WhereTo remain relatively new in North America. The company with nine lives,…

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American Airlines To Use ATPCO, UATP For Prepaid Program Enhancements

American Airlines is building a new platform for its prepaid AirPass program and enticing potential enrollees with lower minimums. The promotion targets high-end leisure travelers and small businesses, but companies of all sizes use the program. While bulk buying a product doesn’t seem like something people think about when they’re barely using that product, the…

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Delta Wants Star Ratings As A New Standard, United Doesn’t

[UPDATE, Sept. 5, 2019: ATPCO no longer requires intermediaries adopting its Next Generation Storefront to use a star-rating system for displaying airline products. ATPCO said the change stemmed from feedback “that stars are sometimes conflated with quality, and that by giving channels the freedom to highlight the shelves in different and innovative iterations according to…

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Two More Startups, One Claiming A Mobile First, Adopt ATPCO’s Airfare Star Ratings

When ATPCO last month unveiled its Next Generation Storefront, officials weren’t sure how it would work on mobile devices. Progress and opinion are mixed among three corporate travel service providers now adopting the concept. Chief executives at PSNGR1 and TravelBank expected this week to activate new displays backed by NGS. PSNGR1’s deployment covers web, mobile…

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ATPCO’s New Distribution Storefront Needs Stars To Align

Airline Tariff Publishing Company and its Routehappy subsidiary are out to change how air travelers view and compare flight options. Developed with the Big Three U.S. airlines, the new idea relies on a star ratings system like the one used for hotels. ATPCO calls the initiative the Next Generation Storefront. It’s meant to modernize indirect…

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