[UPDATE, April 8, 2016: We published new information related to this article here.]

Disintermediation of distributors gets a lot of attention, but the corporate travel profession also has doomsayers. Fears abound on outsourcing, realignment to procurement, generational challenges and technological change.

Mobile computing has disempowered corporate policies and mechanisms of all sorts. Industry discourse has turned to "traveler-centric" management. Adjusting to a more empowered business traveler could put the travel manager out of the picture. Yet, recent hiring activity by some of disruption's darlings . . .

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Jay Campbell

Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.