Articles tagged “egencia”

While corporate travel management companies are still playing catch up to the leisure space when it comes to the sharing economy and online booking, it seems like their executives have realized the scope of the problems they face and are looking to increase the pace of innovation going forward.

With Expedia reporting a clear tightening in corporate travel spending, one wonders how smaller corporate travel management companies are being affected.

As companies come to embrace online booking tools for business travel, traditional travel management companies will face steeper competition from companies like Egencia that bring more robust technology tools to corporate travel.

The integration of Orbitz for Business into Egencia is nearing its conclusion.

When Expedia Inc. officials look at where the growth opportunities are they clearly see corporate travel as ripe for some hyper growth.

Baseball's N.Y. Yankees had its "core four" of Derek Jeter, Andy Pettitte, Jorge Posada, and Mariano Rivera. And Expedia has its own core four, namely Expedia.com, Hotels.com, Trivago, and Egencia as the foundation for global growth and the plan is to add regional acquisitions around the edges.

The silent traveler is the travel consumer who turns to their mobile devices first, seeking solution to in-trip challenges that used to be the primary domain of customer- service staff. We look at the important opportunities they now present to TMCs and travel buyers that can adapt to their dynamic and evolving expectations.

When online travel agencies Expedia, Travelocity and Orbitz launched their own online business travel agencies years ago, the traditional travel management companies sniffed that the OTAs wouldn't be able to compete because business travel was more complicated than just an Internet solution. Egencia expanded its offline services, and has passed by many of its critics.

Business travelers have always clamored for websites and apps that are as functional as those for leisure travelers. As testament to the further blending of business and leisure travel, Egencia is offering mobile-only hotel deals to satisfy the last-minute whims of road warriors.