Articles tagged “egencia”

Dealing with humanity can be annoying, and it can be even worse when you're traveling for business. More robust technology tools, however, can help automate and streamline many annoyances for business travelers.

Expedia isn't overlooking its core online travel agency brands such as Expedia.com and Hotels.com, but Trivago and HomeAway are clearly rising stars. Trivago hardly ever saw a TV commercial it didn't like but increased profits in Q1, and HomeAway is in the midst of a multi-year digital-booking transition.

The race to make corporate travel more like consumer travel is heating up. This time travel management companies may really mean it.

With its Expedia DNA, Egencia is well-positioned to help bring consumer innovations into the corporate travel mainstream.

As corporate travel technology competition heats up, a focus on developing the capabilities that travelers actually want to use is crucial.

Egencia's ambitious growth will likely pressure two of the remaining global travel management companies to merge as a defensive move.

Egencia wants to take a more global approach to growing its market share in corporate travel. It'll be interesting to see how it measures up with competitors that have already attained scale on a global level.

What happens when your social media operations have to transcend the traditional silos of B2B and B2C? Travel management companies are figuring it out in a very public forum.

Southwest CEO Gary Kelly is dismissing union calls for his ouster but if profits slip, or there is another major tech outage, then the CEO's future will get more interesting.

Egencia is leveraging the tech-savvy of its parent Expedia Inc. to compete at a high level in the corporate travel space. It has a real competitive advantage against other travel management companies, which have begun to pivot from providing travel services to developing travel technology solutions to solve the problems that travel buyers and agents can't.