Articles tagged “amex gbt”

This year started with a bang for mergers and acquisitions, so naturally there'll be questions about whether they end up stifling competition.

It's a clever way to address that demand for more flexibility, and drive more revenue to hotels, but with recovery on the way it's unclear how long the "microstay" trend will last.

Providing Covid-19 updates and other advice became big business during the crisis, and looks set to become even more important as governments experiment with reopening their borders.

No major surprises in this latest phase of international reopening, but serious questions over the U.S.'s absence.

The hunter becomes the hunted.

The pandemic dust is settling, and now we're really starting to see consolidation take hold in the corporate travel sector. There's safety in numbers in the future.

Parts of the travel industry will always need that bit of automation. Now technology companies have the disjointed hybrid meeting booking process in their sights.

The message for the travel industry is clear: Engage with company travel managers, understand their organization's culture and DNA, and help them redefine what business travel means after the pandemic.

American Express GBT's top boss Paul Abbott knows that having a distributed workforce can boost business travel spending. The travel management giant itself went 90 percent remote in the U.S. several years ago, and it saw its business travel expenses rise.

Opportunities are ahead for those travel and hospitality companies that build the right products and platforms to address the needs of distributed workforces. Sabre's Google partnership certainly gives it a headstart.