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Joining Bevy Of Return-To-Travel Info Services, New Firm’s Data Scientists See Safe Travel For Most People And Places By July

As various industry entities work on the problem of informing business travelers of whether they can or should go here or there, and what they need to do, a new player from the world of data science appears to have something new.  Using more than 30 data sources, GoPass Global’s APIs reflect pandemic conditions through…

Covid Cancellations Sank Original TravelPerk Flexibility Program, But With Tweaks It Endures

TravelPerk in April 2020 lost money on its flexibility program. The Barcelona-based travel management company’s FlexiPerk option had promised participating clients recovery of at least 90 percent of spending on canceled travel. Customers paid ten cents for each dollar spent on trips. Early in the pandemic, anticipating that cancellation rates would stabilize at averages higher…

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…

TravelPerk’s Insurance Plan Reimagines Refundability

What business traveler doesn’t want the freedom to plan trips even when the business isn’t certain? To choose the cheapest options regardless of restrictions? To cancel or change plans with no financial penalty? According to Spain-based startup TravelPerk, a new service announced this month allowing for all that is a corporate travel first. Intrigued travel…

Analysts Examine Journera, SalesTrip, TravelBank, TravelPerk And TripActions

A trio of industry consultants took time out this month to join The Company Dime’s Jay Campbell and assess strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats for a quintet of business travel startups. In general, they said, this crop has good prospects. Below are summaries of comments by Twelve Squared Growth’s Mitch Gross, Festive Road consultant Aurélie…

BCD Travel To Join Stampede For Small, Midmarket Business

Business travel agency entrepreneurs sometimes say they’re not competing with large travel management companies because they are not going after the large or highly managed end of the business travel market. But big TMCs are taking their clout and experience down market. Talking about categories of business travel clients can be confusing. Small, medium, large….

TripActions Refuses To Demonstrate A Grip On Stats

Pursued for nearly five weeks, TripActions on Wednesday declined to answer basic questions about its own survey. That’s not something you often see in this line of work. Republished by some trade publications, the findings included that millennials see travel as a job perk and don’t care about loyalty programs; it takes more than an…

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