Business Travel tips

Rising airfares and travel costs are prompting legal professionals involved in dispute resolutions to return to video conferencing.

American Express Global Business Travel has partnered with Emirates Group-owned dnata to offer its global clients more local expertise in the Middle East region.

If you’d thought Silicon Valley’s TripActions was running out of steam as we head towards the year’s end, after its acquisitions and extensive fundraising, think again.

Global business events are critical drivers of financial gain for destinations. They impact regional development in the short and long term, and their influence has profound political impacts. In addition, they generate predictable revenue and attract desirable business tourism. However, despite all the benefits, not all destinations can develop successful global event strategies. 

The inaugural Skift Aviation Forum welcomed Robert Isom, the CEO of American Airlines, as its first speaker at the Statler Hotel in downtown Dallas. During the interview he shared how the world’s biggest airline was prepared for the upcoming Thanksgiving vacation, and already looking ahead to the future with a focus on recruiting and training pilots, and staffing the carrier back up.

Corporate travel agencies are facing new pressures to separate their bundled services from company travel managers looking to cut costs and add flexibility.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, January 6, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

The situation on the ground in China isn’t ideal as the country readies to remove its travel restrictions this weekend.

Faced with lower-than expected occupancy and sluggish subscription sales, luxury travel brand Inspirato lowered its 2022 financial guidance, and transferred one-third of its salesforce and marketing personnel to new or expanded segments it is targeting, namely business travel and philanthropy.

Airfares on key corporate travel routes are expected to rise by as much as 25 percent in 2023 amid high fuel prices, a stronger U.S. dollar and labour and aircraft shortages, a forecast from American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) showed.

American Express Global Business Travel is restructuring to focus on small and medium-sized companies, with layoffs expected in the first half of the year.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Friday, December 9. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Thursday, January 5, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Skift unveiled the 2023 edition of its annual Megatrends this week and in the mix, as you’d expect, is the phenomenon of the blended traveler.

The pandemic has led to a permanent change in how we live our lives between work and the personal. No longer just a trite category called “bleisure,” the idea of blended traveling is front and center for every major travel company now. How new strategies focused on the blended traveler will emerge more clearly in 2023, as the industry recognizes the whole traveler holistically.  

Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, January 11, and here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Premium, business or first-class seat are regarded as more harmful to the environment, because the passenger is taking up more space on the aircraft. Most countries tax them more, too.

A strategic partnership with Booking Holdings is helping expense management company Serko recover from the pandemic.

I was privileged to attend this year’s World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, as leader of one of the organization’s “Technology Pioneer” companies. For those who haven’t attended, Davos is incomparably global and diverse in its composition, topics, and attendees.

U.S.-based meeting, event and office provider Convene has bought etc.venues, which now expands its footprint in the UK.

Just half of companies located in North America are seeing international bookings recover to their pre-pandemic levels, according to a new poll.