Articles tagged “tmcs”

Business Travel

Business Travel in 2024: ‘Rising Tension With Employees’

Business travelers know their livelihoods may depend on getting out on the road to nurture relationships with clients. Bean counters, concerned about inflation and sustainability issues, may block those trips.

Business Travel in 2024: ‘Rising Tension With Employees’

Business Travel

American Airlines Hits Smaller Hubs With Steeper Airfares Through Legacy Channels

Erratic airfares will likely be a theme over the course of the year. The question is how damaging, reputationally speaking, will the settling down period be for American Airlines, compared to the financial gains — short or long term.

American Airlines Hits Smaller Hubs With Steeper Airfares Through Legacy Channels

Business Travel

Concur Co-Founder Is Back With Biz Travel Startup Spotnana

Second seasons often disappoint, but Steve Singh's comeback bodes well for blue-chip corporations. Singh is a business travel icon, and his ideas and energy may rev up the metabolism of travel managers, whether or not they buy into his new startup Spotnana.

Concur Co-Founder Is Back With Biz Travel Startup Spotnana

Business Travel

Activist Shareholder in Tussle With India’s Largest Corp Travel Manager Yatra

The activist investor Maguire has raised fair points that Yatra has taken too long to hire a chief financial officer and to hold board elections. But otherwise, CEO Dhruv Shringi and the management team have led the company well.

Activist Shareholder in Tussle With India’s Largest Corp Travel Manager Yatra

Business Travel

Amex GBT CEO Sees Newly Distributed Workforces as Opportunity

American Express GBT's top boss Paul Abbott knows that having a distributed workforce can boost business travel spending. The travel management giant itself went 90 percent remote in the U.S. several years ago, and it saw its business travel expenses rise.

Amex GBT CEO Sees Newly Distributed Workforces as Opportunity

Online Travel

European Commission Is Probing Travel Distribution Systems for Anticompetitive Practices

Over the years, the big global distribution systems have been a major barrier to innovation by airlines and travel startups, in particular. The European Commission now intends to take a serious look at this dynamic.

European Commission Is Probing Travel Distribution Systems for Anticompetitive Practices

Business Travel

Egencia Is Looking for Scale in Mergers and Acquisitions, Not New Geographies

Expedia has been talking for a couple of years about being opportunistic when it comes to mergers and acquisitions for its Egencia business travel unit. That may be on the back burner for awhile, though, as the parent company, which has been bogged down in integrating acquisitions over the past couple of years, focuses on growing what it already has.

Egencia Is Looking for Scale in Mergers and Acquisitions, Not New Geographies