HRS is expanding its reach, adding services and picking up big-name clients. As it does, it steps on the toes of some travel management companies, especially the biggest players. They’re chasing the same money. For some travel program managers, the flow of supplier commissions has financial implications while the provision of HRS content has practical…
Last year Altour joined Direct Travel as a travel management service provider within the portfolio of group purchasing organization Omnia Partners. In October, Christopherson Business Travel contracted with the Inter-University Council Purchasing Group of Ohio. These TMCs see consortia as a way to get their feet in the door among networks of dozens or hundreds…
[UPDATE, Feb. 7 2019: Delta and TripActions have reconciled with one another. More here.] Something’s still amiss between Delta Air Lines and new corporate travel agency TripActions, but it’s not bugging the latter’s clients. A few said they were unaware of Delta’s displeasure with how its products and services appear to them. While Delta apparently…
With 14 small and midsized clients on board after a couple of years building and testing, business travel app maker PSNGR1 officially launched this month and plans to help suppliers deal with SMEs based on data. Small and midsized companies tend not to have managers of travel. Their individual volume doesn’t justify sending a sales…
There are many lessons to learn by looking through travel program data. The more you dig, the more insights you’ll pick up. Travel Leaders Corporate president Gabe Rizzi lays out some of the genres you should read up on and describes how each can help optimize travel program management. Corporate travel managers today have a…
Mai Meyaart and Travel Leaders Group came to terms on a settlement of Meyaart’s wrongful termination suit against the travel agency company. The case was closed on Thursday. “The parties resolved all of the claims brought by former TLG employee Mabelle ‘Mai’ Meyaart,” according to a company statement. “The pending case was dismissed without any finding…
There’s a new roll-up in town. Besides a presence on Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube — and a “Sell Your Agency” button on its website — it’s trying to be stealth. Alpharetta, Ga.-based private equity firm Travel Equity Partners lists as its CEO and managing partner Jason Block, who is the son of Travel Leaders…
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