TMC Metrics To Watch For Years To Come
AI is transforming TMCs into "a completely different business," said one travel management company CFO. Publicly traded competitors are providing a window into the impact.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/travel-management-company-financial-productivity-metrics/
EmPath Travel Scores For Steph Curry's Philanthropy Organization
SC30 adopted emPath's platform to streamline booking, payment and reimbursement for 200 travelers on the basketball superstar's youth golf tour.
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https://www.thecompanydime.com/empath-steph-curry-philanthropy-guest-travel/
Humans Included As Navan, OpenAI Ply Next-Gen Technology
If any corporate duo were set to remove humans from travel management, one would think Navan and OpenAI would be it. Both have been hiring travel management people.
Q&A: Sabre Chief Product And Technology Officer Garry Wiseman
Sabre EVP Garry Wiseman delves into the company's AI-powered tools enabling autonomous agents to handle travel tasks through new APIs and a Model Context Protocol server.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/sabre-garry-wiseman/
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Direct Connect Debate Is Also About Who Pays For Travel Management
Announced in July, a United Airlines investment in Blockskye, a travel management company using direct connections, prompted questions about favoritism from advocates of the establishment.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/direct-connect-travel-management/
Cerebri Buys InterplX Expense Solution To Get Into Guest/Non-Profiled Corporate Travel
Data analytics company Cerebri AI on Sept. 30 bought expense system InterplX from Serko to build a solution for non-employee corporate travel.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/cerebri-guest-non-employee-travel/
In AI Booking We Trust, Maybe
Some polls show business travelers ready to accept AI technology's top recommendations for flights and hotels. Buyers aren't quite there yet.
Navan Details Debt-Fueled Liquidity, Differentiation Story, Founder Control
If investors can get past lenders' leverage and their own lack of influence, it's Navan's vision for AI that they'd likely be buying into. The company needs them to help pay down debt.
Rippling Built Business Travel Service In-House
Although it can be used standalone, Rippling Travel customers benefit from integration with the firm’s core human resources information system.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/rippling-builds-corporate-travel-agency/
Accelya's NDC Cooperation Aims to Break Corporate Travel Logjam
NDC adoption in 2024 was “gaining pace,” but key players this year found the industry still needed a catalyst.
#businesstravel #businesstraveltech #travelmanagement #corporatetravel #airlineNDC
https://www.thecompanydime.com/accelya-ndc-corporate-travel/
Travelport Hires Veteran Online Travel CEO Mangelaars As COO
Travelport did not comment on John Elieson, who currently holds the COO and deputy CEO titles. John Mangelaars spent four years as Skyscanner CEO.
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Ex-Spotnana Engineer Joins Non-Profiled Travel Provider Crowd
Amex GBT, emPath and Juno this summer launched services to support guest travel. More quietly, an engineer whose LinkedIn profile says he spent five years at Spotnana created a rival and showed demos to buyers.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/bono-non-profiled/
#businesstravel #businesstraveltech #corporatravel #travelmanagement
Claude And Friends Supercharge Service At Flight Centre
Flight Centre's corporate segment is answering emails 6 percent quicker and consultants are handling 28 percent more transactions. With AI, productivity gains are anticipated indefinitely.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/flight-centre-claude-quicker-service/
DerbySoft AI Calls Properties So Travel Agents Don’t Have To
DerbySoft estimated that at least 30 percent of global accommodation bookings require phone or email follow-up. But almost none of them require a human.
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Notebook: Getting A Corporate Travel Tech Pilot Off The Ground
The capabilities and value of a piece of corporate travel technology often are not the toughest boxes to check before getting in the door.
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PredictX: Travel Managers To Become ‘Leaders Of People And AI Agents’
Many are anxious about what AI means for their jobs. PredictX CEO Keesup Choe sees it empowering travel buyers.
#ai #corporatetravel #travelmanagement #businesstraveltech
https://www.thecompanydime.com/predictx-travel-managers-leaders-people-ai-agents/
Q&A: Emburse CEO Marne Martin
Martin discusses scaling beyond "Steve's Tripbam," looking for "win-wins" with TMCs, investing in online booking tech and building new product bundles.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/emburse-ceo-marne-martin-interview/
Cardinal Health’s ‘Never-Ending’ Corporate Travel Data Project
Spend management and policy compliance topped the list of goals for Cardinal's travel data project, supported by BCD Travel's Advito.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/cardinal-health-travel-data-project/
Q&A With Serko CEO Darrin Grafton
"Serko is doing the opposite of whatever we’ve done in the past," said Grafton, head of the tech firm that bought Sabre's GetThere. This interview last month focused on the future of his firm's online self-booking systems and his vision for using AI to reinvent how travel policy is administered on the back end and applied at the point of sale.
HR Tech Firm Rippling Plans Corporate Travel Splash This Week
HR tech firm Rippling will launch a travel service managed by several ex-Navan people on July 31, according to company sources.
https://www.thecompanydime.com/rippling-corporate-travel/
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