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NuTravel (And Hilfman) Joins ARC, Blockskye And Traxo To Accelerate Direct Airline Distribution For Business Travel
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NuTravel (And Hilfman) Joins ARC, Blockskye And Traxo To Accelerate Direct Airline Distribution For Business Travel

Airlines Reporting Corp. this month acquired a majority stake in technology developer nuTravel. NuTravel will operate as an independent subsidiary and deliver managed business travel booking capabilities through airline websites. In conjunction with the transaction, nuTravel named former United Airlines senior vice president Dave Hilfman an independent director. NuTravel’s Universal Connect technology is different from…

Yannis Karmis
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Sold On Off-Channel Booking Capture? Here Are Additional Considerations

BCD Travel this year rolled out a new database of trip records independent of the traditional global distribution system passenger name record. Available in nearly all markets globally, the system addresses a need to capture more sources of booking data and reservation types, and helps clean up that data so it flows seamlessly into downstream…

Survey, GBTA Discussions On Policy Compliance Point To Growth For Capture Tools
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Survey, GBTA Discussions On Policy Compliance Point To Growth For Capture Tools

Chicago – The August Global Business Travel Association convention continued the corporate travel profession’s study of where policy compliance is weak and how to fix it.  In particular, discussions focused on business travelers who stray from their firms’ preferred corporate booking channels. While some buyers face issues with leakage on air travel, the problem by…

IBM Gets Patent On Travel Planning

IBM Gets Patent On Travel Planning

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office last week issued a patent to IBM for “intelligent travel planning.” The patented process covers receiving a user’s trip requirements and preferences, searching travel options, building an itinerary based on “relative weights for preference information” and purchase history, obtaining a response from the user to the proposed itinerary and…

TRM Firms Use Location-Based Messaging For Pro-Privacy ‘Tracking,’ Risk Mitigation

TRM Firms Use Location-Based Messaging For Pro-Privacy ‘Tracking,’ Risk Mitigation

WorldAware expects next week to enable app messaging that pushes alerts to client employees based on where they turn up and allows organizations to see which areas their participating people enter. Updated this week, the latest version of the International SOS app added push notifications for medical and security alerts based on the user’s proximity…

Nick Romano
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Consultancy Creates Firm To Capture Travel Bookings Irrespective Of Channel

Partners in KesselRun Corporate Travel Solutions joined a former meetings tech entrepreneur to enable organizations across the travel management spectrum to capture bookings made anywhere. Called CapTrav, the service integrates with email servers to parse travel data from booking confirmations for employees using work email addresses. If that sounds familiar, the CapTrav folks have also…

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Corporate Travel Managers Take Noncompliance Into Their Own Touchy Feely Hands

San Diego – One of the hot topics at this month’s Global Business Travel Association convention was nothing new: booking channel noncompliance. Less elegantly called leakage or rogue booking, the problem remains unsolved and is growing, according to some industry pros. Perhaps unexpectedly, new GBTA research sponsored by SAP Concur found that most corporate travel…

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