How Avis Wants to Build Transparency in Corporate Travel


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Can this two giant global travel companies work out their differences? Surely consumers would be prefer to know they can keep searching for United fares on Expedia.

Despite the growth of ridesharing and other mobility options for business travelers, car rental remains a core pillar of the sector. Avis Budget Group has launched a dashboard for corporate travel managers tracking spending, reservations, and environmental impact among other data categories. Travel managers can design custom reports based on their needs and schedule reports for delivery when they need them. "Data is a huge pain point for our customers, especially travel managers," said Beth Kinerk, Avis Budget Group's senior vice president of sales. "We wanted to create a tool to give them the opportunity to have all that data at their fingertips. We had versions of this data before but it was all manual. This is more automated, helps them drive co