Travel Agencies Scoop Up Laid-Off Agents With New Consulting Divisions
Matthew Parsons, Skift
Corporate travel agencies spot a potentially lucrative side hustle by utilizing displaced agents. And why not?
3 weeks ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
Corporate travel agencies spot a potentially lucrative side hustle by utilizing displaced agents. And why not?
3 weeks ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
With a narrowing pool of viable customers, in the form of governments and other essential service providers, the competition's going to be tough out there.
4 weeks ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
Fulfilling pledges to revitalize its business travel offering could help Virgin Australia bounce back, but it may be exiting bankruptcy with a tarnished reputation.
4 weeks ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
This six-month expense roundup reveals good news for local restaurants, bad news for waistlines.
4 weeks ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
Evacuations are difficult at the best of times. Now corporate travel agencies are battling border closures, offline bookings, canceled flights and quarantines.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
There's nothing like breaking ranks with tradition, and over the course of the year we'll probably hear more about this type of travel management-as-a-service offering.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
There have been layoffs, but the slimmed-down CTM is upbeat with its suitable mix of corporate customers and domestic business model. Will the optimism last?
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
This high number of hotel bookings is testament to the work being doing by the State of California via its healthcare worker program, but also reveals the magnitude of the battle it faces.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
Freed from the shackles of the office, the emerging "work from anywhere" trend is tempting for employees — and hotels. Some employers might have a different view.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
There's a lot of rhetoric about the need to find business models that work for everyone, as the viewpoints of Tesla and Microsoft demonstrate, but there has been little action so far.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
The concept makes sense, but there's a risk that metasearch sites could come unstuck coping with all the complexities corporate travel will entail when it eventually restarts.
1 month ago
Matthew Parsons, Skift
The pandemic will have marred the first anniversary celebrations, but this fledgling corporate travel unit should have enough experience behind it to ride out the storm.
1 month ago