When Corporate Goes Consumer — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Travel management companies are investing heavily in new technology tools for travelers. A train station in Madrid is pictured here. Flickr / Calvin Smith
Skift Take
The race to make corporate travel more like consumer travel is heating up. This time travel management companies may really mean it.
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
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The Future of Corporate + Business Travel
It looks like 2017 is the year of travel management companies finally coming to grips with the importance of not just providing savings and service, but powerful digital tools to travelers themselves.
This week we published a Q&A with Egencia President Rob Greyber, where he details the company's focus on taking a page from parent company Expedia.
Even if going consumer in corporate travel isn't sexy, it's becoming increasingly important.
"I’ve got to tell you, I kind of hate the word consumerization, like you want to put someone to sleep on an airplane nex
