Skift Take
Improved automation, and the presence of more diverse travel products in corporate travel policies, has the potential to free up corporate travel professionals to better focus on travelers themselves.
We recently launched our weekly Corporate Travel Innovation Report, a newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for the travel managers and buyers, the innovators emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought and sold.
As part of our increased attention to corporate travel, we're sitting down with a handful of industry leaders for our new Corporate Travel CEO Listening Series to discover what the people at the top are concerned with now and where they are looking for inspiration.
The tension between responsibility for traveler safety and the need to innovate is palpable in the corporate travel ecosystem.
New sharing economy services and other back-end solutions are becoming popular, and it's a challenge for travel managers and buyers to assume the risk of experimenting with something new when so much is at stake.
Kurt Knackstedt, current preside