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Hotels have mixed feelings about business travel in 2023.

The great outdoors called during Covid, and corporations answered.

Skift CEO Rafat Ali and Skift Research senior analysts Varsha Arora and Pranavi Agarwal went live on LinkedIn to discuss the key findings and implications from the latest U.S. Travel Tracker survey conducted in January 2023. Skift Research has been conducting bi-monthly U.S. travel surveys since January 2020 amongst 1,000 U.S. consumers, to examine travel behavior, demands and expectations.

Corporate travel agency TripActions is rebranding to Navan, Skift has learned.

Good morning from Skift. It’s Wednesday, February 22. Here’s what you need to know about the business of travel today.

Corporate Travel Management is investing in building back up its teams to prepare for the global travel recovery.

FCM Travel, Flight Centre’s principal corporate-focused agency, is gaining from the business travel pick-up in every part of the world — apart from Asia. As a whole, the Australian group only managed to break even in the region, according to its 2023 first-half results, when taking into account business and leisure sales.

Greek startup Blueground has bought corporate housing specialist Travelers Haven to grow its footprint across the U.S.

Dutch hotel group CitizenM has signed 18,000 members to its “Plus” loyalty program that launched 10 months ago. But the company views the $12-a-month subscription as a means to grow its business rather than a revenue stream.

Company spending on co-working spaces is on the up, while business travel is declining, according to corporate card and expense firm Ramp.

Uber is extending the reservation period to pre-book rides from 30 days to 90 days to help boost its airport business.

American Express Global Business Travel is finding that hotel bookings are recovering faster than flights when it comes to business trip bookings.

Travelport has regained its own corporate booking tool, after buying Deem from private car rental company Enterprise Holdings.

A former executive at Orbitz is launching a corporate travel agency in partnership with Spotnana — the secretive technology startup backed by Concur co-founder Steve Singh.

“Scrappy” is how Ann Schlemmer, CEO of Percona, describes her company’s approach to booking team travel and retreats.

American Airlines’ restructuring of its global sales team will involve the departure of three experienced senior leaders, Skift has learned.

Companies are making little effort to track and reduce the carbon emissions within their travel programs, according to two reports published this week.

A San Fransisco-based advisory firm is seeing more company bosses and their entourages embark on fact-finding trips around the world to gain better business insights.

American Airlines has ruled out delaying the removal of 40 percent of its airfares from traditional retail channels next month.

The San Francisco Travel Association is working more closely with the city’s hotels to promote smaller meetings and events.

American Airlines is going live with its New Distribution Capability offers with global distribution system Sabre on April 3, marking the point of no return for its removal of 40 percent of its airfares from traditional retail channels.