Articles tagged “egencia”

Corporate travel is barreling down an uncertain road to a facelift that could strip it down to essential business by the time the travel sector gets to the other side of its coronavirus rebound.

Billions of dollars in revenue are at stake next year, even once a dire 2020 is out of the way.

Many travel managers and even agencies were caught off guard by the pandemic, underestimating how long it could last. Cue the last minute dash to work out how to leverage all those unused tickets.

Nothing says you care about a client like traveling a long way to see them. But post-Covid, a culmination of trends could force companies to think of new ways to make them feel special.

There's been mostly a negative perception of coronavirus' impact on corporate travel, but there are some unintended consequences that smarter agencies can actually look forward to.

Quarantine measures don't steady the nerves of already anxious corporate travel managers, who can now only hope for more bilateral agreements to help staff get flying again.

The hunt is on for a silver bullet that rubber stamps an employee's immunity to Covid-19. Only then will corporations be able to kickstart their business travel.

With so much change at the top, there's a risk corporate clients are nervous because the last thing they need in a crisis is more uncertainty. There could be further operational streamlining ahead. If so, Ariane Gorin will have to balance more change with reassuring clients that Expedia Group is a steady ship.

Expedia in December promoted Ariane Gorin to become boss of Expedia Business Services. Gorin had led a team that had recently won major enterprise accounts, like Marriott's exclusive redistribution deal. Opportunity abounds for the company to expand its business-to-business partnerships.

Global companies with a high volume of travelers, take note. Tight travel budgets and overly strict travel policies don't make for happy or productive employees.