Airlines say they are limiting the number of passengers on flights in an effort to maintain social distancing. Anecdotally, though, plenty of flights are full. Airline approaches vary, the situation will be fluid and there are no guarantees. World Travel Inc. is building a tool to inject some confidence by showing how full flights booked…
This one goes out to the suppliers and intermediaries in the audience. Business development is always important, but especially now. Say you’re a travel management company and most of your clients are at less than 10 percent. It’s a good time to double down on getting more. The question is, how? A nearly four-year-old company…
The U.S. Department of Transportation through Jan. 31 is accepting submissions for its first annual Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award. DOT is giving out a $50,000 prize “to incentivize an increase in human trafficking awareness, training and prevention among transportation stakeholders.” The introduction of the award program coincides with National Slavery and Human…
Few things jazz up Rock Blanco more than new platforms, which helps him stay cool in the face of trial and error. Such is the World Travel Inc. chief innovation officer’s relationship with Alexa, whom he had to dump for a friendlier dance partner. Now, World Travel is working with Rome-based Askdata on a conversational…
Former longtime BCD Travel executive Dee Runyan this month ended a seven-year run as president of World Travel Inc. and on Monday joined Chicago-area CorpTrav as chief operating officer. Runyan’s personal brand is stronger across much of corporate travel than that of her new company, but she argued the move was in character. During a…
Dee Runyan left her post as president of World Travel Inc. to join Chicago-area travel management company CorpTrav as chief operating officer. The highly regarded TMC executive replaced Mary Batal-Riley who, after a two-year stint as CorpTrav COO, this summer became global travel manager at Baxter International, according to her LinkedIn profile. In her new…
Georgia-based Travel Incorporated expects later this month to publish its voice-response assistant on Amazon’s Alexa Skills store. The product remained in the design stage for nearly two years as the travel management company learned how users interacted. Some other providers that built natural language technology reported tepid interest. It was an interactive storyboard concept that solved…
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