Spotnana offers solutions directly to corporations, including operating “as your travel management company,” according to its website. However, multiple sources said the company had discontinued responding to buyers in that capacity. Instead, Spotnana is pushing TMC partnerships. While Spotnana CEO Steve Singh did not corroborate all of that in a Dec. 5 interview, he rhapsodized…
Few companies have made as dramatic a C-suite housecleaning as quickly as travel and expense software firm Emburse. Save for its CFO, the company’s leadership page is entirely different than it was at this time last year. Emburse is the product of several acquisitions, going back nine years to private equity owner K1 Investment Management’s…
Salt Lake City’s Christopherson Business Travel released a new iOS app in the first phase of a digital platform reinvention using the brand Andavo. The app supports loyalty program and profile updates, trip sharing and planning with colleagues, “real-time” synced itineraries and FlightAware flight status. “There’s a lot of evolution going on right now in…
The New Distribution Capability is not designed to generate less revenue for airlines. Some argue it’s about increasing yields through upselling and neutered comparison shopping. Many corporate travel buyers’ most notable experiences with NDC are related to surcharges or inaccessible fares. Airlines are using it to reduce distribution costs. One of the purported win-wins is…
Booking tool builder Serko plans to announce it hired David Holyoke as head of unmanaged travel. Most recently in commercial strategy at Airbnb, Holyoke left the home-sharing firm in April, according to his LinkedIn profile. He previously served as president of Travel Leaders Corporate, which he left in 2016. Publicly traded Serko sees unmanaged business…
After announcing a few in March, SAP Concur added several enhancements to the roadmap for its upgraded online booking tool, including the ability to change ticketed air trips in Sabre, scheduled for release during the quarter ending in September. Planned for the current quarter is the capability for reservation holds on EDIFACT-based Sabre bookings. The…
Is BCD Travel’s TripSource an online booking tool? Yes and no. Customers can make air, car and hotel bookings with it, but it’s not as fully featured as, say, SAP’s Concur Travel, with which BCD has many mutual clients. For BCD, TripSource doesn’t have to be an OBT for everyone. It offers other functionality and…
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