Corporate travel tips

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.

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.

Having missed its deadline of launching an Indian initial public offering (IPO) by this month, India-based online travel company Yatra.com has now said that it is “hopeful and confident of getting the IPO done in the near term.”

InteleTravel acquired corporate travel consortium Hickory Global Partners, a firm nod to the rise of blended travel as employees increasingly blur the lines between vacations with business trips.

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A growing number of businesses are opting for rail travel in Europe, as higher airfares push employees to trains rather than planes.

Skift Research examined how female business travelers were shaping the industry in a 2014 report, noting that companies were increasingly taking steps to address the needs of this growing segment.

Navan, the corporate travel agency previously called TripActions, rolled out a feature that enables companies to retain the benefits of their Visa and Mastercard corporate cards and still gain access to Navan’s automated expense management features.

Expensya, the corporate expense management startup, has been acquired. 

U.S. airlines are enjoying strong leisure travel demand, but corporate travelers are still not back in full force, compelling airlines to restructure their networks to account for fewer people flying for business purposes.

Travelport has completed the integration of corporate booking tool Deem, which it acquired earlier this year.