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Travel management companies are finally looking to approach corporate travel from a more traveler-centric perspective. The pressure is on to shift to a more progressive approach to travel technology, iterating based on what travelers actually want.

It makes sense that business travelers who don't travel very much would try to include some leisure elements when they do hit the road.

It will be interesting to see how this shakeup will affect such a major player in travel management. We look forward to hearing more from the new CEO (as well as learning the backstory of his predecessor's departure).

More business travelers are growing frustrated with their companies' corporate booking tools and that leads them to go off on their own to book their trips. Corporations hate it but some 42% of business travelers in a survey leave their companies in the dark in terms of where they're staying and which flights they'll be on.

As sharing economy services provide stronger data tools to corporate agencies, the role of Uber and Airbnb will expand in corporate travel policies.

Emerging economies will grow faster than advanced economies during 2016 and that has several implications for the cost of travel.

As one of the largest travel companies in the world, Carlson Wagonlit Travel's global scale and what it's doing in most facets of its business offer a glimpse into larger travel management trends and what business travelers in managed programs are looking for.

It turned heads last June when the GSA awarded a $1.4 billion government travel contact to a single vendor, Concur, which had never been involved in government travel. Concur isn't in danger of losing all the business, but it may have to share with CWT Sato Travel.

Maybe if CWT and its corporate clients ignore social media and hotel reviews, then they will just go away. Maybe not.

Word on the street is that Concur won a low-ball contract for federal government travel. Still a 15-year exclusive contract to handle all travel for 70 federal government civilian agencies, from the State Department to the Commerce Department, amounts to big bucks for Concur, and Carlson Wagonlit has a lot to lose by being shut out.