Articles tagged “cwt”

Business Travel

Booking.com Partner Serko Gets Lift From Business Travel Recovery

Serko is reaping the rewards from a deal signed with the online agency just weeks before the pandemic hit, and now with “unmanaged travel” returning, the outlook has improved considerably.

Matthew Parsons | 3 days ago

Booking.com Partner Serko Gets Lift From Business Travel Recovery

Business Travel

Marriott and Curator Hotel’s Insider Tips on Hosting Blended Travelers

The viewpoints from a major hotel chain and independent specialist reinforce the idea that accommodating remote workers is going to be challenging.

Matthew Parsons | 2 weeks ago

Marriott and Curator Hotel’s Insider Tips on Hosting Blended Travelers

Tourism

Travelport’s Top Product Exec on the Folly of Carbon Offsetting

Travelport's Tom Kershaw was not shy with us about sharing how he feels about what is real and what is just a pure waste of time in the travel industry's efforts to be green.

Peden Doma Bhutia | 1 month ago

Travelport’s Top Product Exec on the Folly of Carbon Offsetting

Short-Term Rentals

Sonder Makes Modest Progress on Long-Term Corporate Travel Bet

Sonder's growth is slowing by design and because of macroeconomic conditions. It is committed to the promised land of 2023, when it hopes to turn red ink to green.

Dennis Schaal | 3 months ago

Sonder Makes Modest Progress on Long-Term Corporate Travel Bet

Airlines

Airlines Tweak Schedules Toward Leisure Routes as One-Day Business Trips Falter

Was the one-day business trip ever the smartest decision on so many levels?

Jamie Freed and Rajesh Kumar Singh, Reuters | 3 months ago

Airlines Tweak Schedules Toward Leisure Routes as One-Day Business Trips Falter

Business Travel

Hong Kong’s Restart Prompts Warnings Over Rising Corporate Travel Costs

Experts on the ground in both Hong Kong and Singapore already report booking spikes and surges in airfares and hotel rates. The message is to start laying the groundwork for when China eventually eases its own travel policies.

Matthew Parsons | 4 months ago

Hong Kong’s Restart Prompts Warnings Over Rising Corporate Travel Costs

Business Travel

In Search of Corporate Travel’s Elusive Recovery

Most industry forecasts point to an eventual recovery — even to the 2019 high of $1.4 trillion in annual spending — as business trips start to bounce back. But many underlying trends are emerging in a fragile global economy. How we travel, and for what purpose, is far from certain as we enter a new era of accountability.

Matthew Parsons | 4 months ago

In Search of Corporate Travel’s Elusive Recovery

Business Travel

Remote Work May Win New Advocates Over Rising Energy Costs for Offices

Coronavirus threw traditional work and travel patterns into disarray last winter, forcing people to stay at home. But this time around concerns over sky-high energy bills could push people into co-working spaces to keep costs down.

Matthew Parsons | 4 months ago

Remote Work May Win New Advocates Over Rising Energy Costs for Offices

News Blog

Sonder Adds Former CWT CEO Michelle Frymire to Its Board

In a further sign of its push into business travel, Sonder has added Michelle Frymire, the former CEO of corporate travel agency CWT, to its board of directors. The next-generation hospitality company this month also announced it has a chain code, SS, in the Sabre and Amadeus global distribution systems, and earlier this year expanded…

Matthew Parsons | 5 months ago

Business Travel

Flight Centre Makes a Dig at Bigger Rivals as it Takes Their Clients

With so much consolidation taking place, the group reckons its FCM Travel arm is now the only global alternative to the legacy travel management companies. They may disagree.

Matthew Parsons | 5 months ago

Flight Centre Makes a Dig at Bigger Rivals as it Takes Their Clients