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Direct Travel CTO Sees Future Of Travel Management Tech In Teams, Slack

Are native travel management company mobile apps obsolete? That’s Darryl Hoover’s question. The Direct Travel chief technology officer was playing out the implications of the company’s revised digital strategy. Leveraging collaboration platforms including Microsoft’s Teams and Salesforce’s Slack, he said, allows the travel management company to meet customers where they are. That’s a lot easier…

Open To Continued Independence Or Partnerships, TravelBank Adds Features, Funding And A Food Client

TravelBank during the past few months added what sources said was a relatively small amount of new funding and GrubHub as a relatively big client. It also announced a rather large number of new and planned features. So what’s next? Will the startup go the way of Lola and Upside and seek the stability of…

Roadmap Adds Another Big Client Amid Struggle For The Mobile Managed Traveler

Health insurance giant Anthem got its travel management company, BCD Travel, to play nice as it brings the Roadmap mobile app to employees. That others face resistance when they want to do the same highlights a broader conflict over the corporate traveler’s mobile loyalty. The friction between Roadmap, its clients and its prospects on one…

Withering On The Vine? Sabre’s TripCase Slips In Managed Business Travel While TripIt Keeps Adding Features

The United States Patent and Trademark Office in February granted Sabre a patent on “post-booking travel assistance and organization.” This covers some key functions in the Sabre TripCase mobile app. It came nearly a decade after Sabre applied for the designation and despite more recent comments about its lack of desire for patents. Sabre was…

NuTravel Mobile Booking Plan Draws Travel Management Company Interest

Three travel management companies this week displayed varying degrees of interest in booking tool provider nuTravel’s plan to integrate with mobile app developers. NuTravel’s first partner, United Kingdom-based Mantic Point, provides apps to corporate agencies including Direct Travel, Executive Travel and FCm Travel Solutions. Officials with Direct Travel and FCm said they were considering the…

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