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With Ground Transport Technology In Flux, Where Is A Travel Manager To Begin?

When Sandy Miller’s Basin Street Partners got the opportunity to invest in Carey International about two years ago, it had little competition. The moneyed thought ride hailing companies would swallow the ground transportation sector. Two months ago, Miller took the CEO role at the chauffeured car company, which looks a bit different than it did when the…

EmpireCLS Revamps Dispatch System To Build Rideshare-Like App

New Jersey-based chauffeured transportation company EmpireCLS is building new mobile experiences for travelers and affiliates. While the traveler app has familiar ride hailing app features including booking, driver info and car tracking, it’s not meant to deliver “on-demand” pickup as promised by Lyft and Uber. It does give travelers a modern, mobile option for booking…

Silver Bullet For Capturing Invisible Spend Eludes Corporate Travel Managers

Leakage is the bane of a travel manager’s existence. When travelers don’t book through designated channels, work is needed to corral the associated data for tracking, reporting, rate assurance and other functions. Data on ground transportation and meal purchases generally is only delivered weeks after the fact. A recent analysis by data firm PredictX showed the…

After False Starts, Lyft And Uber Use TMC Partners For Deeper Corporate Travel Inroads

Lyft and Uber are feeling their way into the corporate market. Lyft had a rebate program. That’s done. Uber For Business had free and premium tiers. Now it’s all premium. Both fast-growing ride-hailing companies are aligning with corporate travel management companies but so far mostly for referrals. It’s clear these remain early days. Lyft has…

Substantial Progress On Gender Balance Eludes Business Travel Professionals

EasyJet last month took heat for a gender pay disparity that it attributed to the preponderance of males among its pilots. The company also is paying its incoming CEO more than his female predecessor. If only such discrepancies were unique to easyJet. Throughout the travel industry, women remain under-represented in executive ranks and boardrooms. In travel management,…

American Express Global Business Travel Makes Ground Transport Play With Mozio

American Express Global Business Travel will use ground transportation platform Mozio to offer clients a range of options through an agent portal, the KDS booking tool and the GBT mobile app. Mozio also works with Carlson Wagonlit Travel, which owns a piece of the five-year-old marketplace of roughly 3,000 transport providers. Inventory includes public transit systems,…

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