Business Travel News

The stock market liked the optimistic story that Amex GBT was telling about the CWT acquisition and margin expansion.

Alaska Airlines is making a big bet on international and premium travel as it looks to launch more routes to Europe and introduce new business class suites.

Corporate travel is still a nightmare of fragmented systems, which means that rebooking canceled flights can be headache-inducing. Yet Concur co-founder Steve Singh believes new tech could bring the dawn of "the perfect trip."

Despite a rebound in global corporate travel, much of the industry remains stuck in an old pattern — unmanaged, but cheaper employee travel.

IHG's new deal with Emirates is as part of broader push to capture the underserved corporate segment. Expect more partnerships that offer fast-track loyalty status in exchange for direct bookings.

Soon it will be Amex GBT-CWT — and then everyone else. But tech-advanced companies can potentially make inroads as the merger partners get distracted with managing a huge integration.

As India's high-value business travel is on-track to surpass pre-Covid levels, competition in India is heating up with OTAs and hotel chains adjusting their strategies to sharpen their focus on this segment.

Everyone in corporate travel is trying to cut out the middleman, which is awkward because half the people in corporate travel are the middleman. Hilton's gained traction with a new program for small- and medium-sized businesses and easier processes for payments.

Zoom works fine. But it turns out there's something irreplaceable about looking someone in the eye while discussing revenue projections in a beige conference room in Dallas, Sao Paulo, or Mumbai.

Startup BizTrip.AI is betting that agentic AI will do for corporate travel what search once did for the internet: turn complexity into simplicity.