Articles tagged “business travel”

A seamless planning and booking tool continues to evade business travelers, but the challenges including privacy concerns, access to open data, and monopoly regulations will keep it at bay or at least dispersed across several travel products.

Amadeus provides the technology, which keeps the travel sector moving - from initial search to making a booking, from pricing to ticketing, from managing reservations to managing check-in and departure processes. It is this strong commitment that we believe will enable us to continue working with our customers and partners to shape the future of travel.

We agree with Gil Beyda, founder of Genacast Ventures, who says that managed travel is starving for innovation. Whether or not Rocketrip is ultimately successful, the startup finds itself in the right place at the right time.

Concur sees itself as reinventing corporate travel, with the rest of the industry following along. The company is indeed doing some transformational things, but the rest of the industry hasn't exactly signed off on it all yet.

The younger generation may be bringing to the business world a renewed appreciation for work-life balance.

The Power of Travel Coalition, in lodging a protest over GSA per-diem rates for federal government travel, may have gone too far in objecting to the removal of "upper upscale hotels" as part of the calculations.