Corporate Travel Managers Don’t Trust the Sharing Economy


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It's shocking that more corporate travel managers haven't embraced mobile technology and the sharing economy as ways to reduce costs and gain more accurate data on the habits of their clients.

Business travelers who hope their companies will embrace the sharing economy may have to wait a while. A new white paper released by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives in conjunction with American Express Global Business Travel shows that the vast majority of 350 corporate travel managers polled don't have plans to introduce sharing economy services and have lagged in implementing services like in-trip messaging. Instead, more than half said they're focusing on savings inste