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Ziegler Is Back On GBTA’s Board

NetApp senior travel manager Mark Ziegler rejoined GBTA’s board of directors after the association’s chapter presidents elected him president of the Chapter Presidents’ Council. Ziegler is president of the Bay Area Business Travel Association and will serve a two-year term on GBTA’s board. Ziegler helped spearhead an initiative in 2013 designed in large part to…

BCD Travel Buys Adelman Travel Group

BCD Travel acquired Milwaukee-based travel management company Adelman Travel Group, a member of the BCD Travel Affiliates program. Terms were not disclosed. BCD Travel in 2015 acquired World Travel Service and in 2017 raised its position in Acendas Travel. Last month it bought a majority stake in Japan-based partner Hitachi Travel Bureau. That followed investments…

Egencia Is Building Its Own Hotel Rate Assurance Technology

Popularized by Tripbam and Yapta, hotel rate assurance is now a common part of travel management. Dozens of travel management companies work with those firms to provide a hotel reshopping service and switch travelers to more favorable rates. American Express Global Business Travel decided to build its own system. So has Travel and Transport (which…

Yapta Automates Hotel Rebooking

Clients now can configure Yapta to automatically rebook hotel rooms at lower rates in a variety of scenarios. These include when Yapta finds a better option with the same rate code, or another negotiated rate that’s lower, or the same room type, the same or a better cancellation policy or the same or better amenities. …

Altour Releases Mobile App Including Lumo Integration

Altour last week released an Android and iOS mobile app with chat functions and flight disruption predictions from Lumo, formerly called Flightsayer. App maker mTrip helped build it. Mobile apps are a requirement for big corporate customers, according to Altour CIO and SVP Laura Mattingly. She said the TMC liked mTrip’s flexibility for adding other…

GBTA Hires Former Dav El Boston Coach Exec As Solombrino’s Second-In-Command

Limo industry ties appeared in Scott Solombrino’s most important Global Business Travel Association hire — his “second-in-command.” The organization on Friday afternoon announced the appointment of a former exec at the executive director’s former chauffeured car company, Dav El Boston Coach, to a new role for the group. As of today, Lisa Censullo is GBTA’s…

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