Carlson Wagonlit Travel president and CEO Kurt Ekert talked with BTN contributing editor Amon Cohen about the competitive landscape and the digital... KEEP READING

Small meetings platform Bizly has partnered with private dining and events specialist Tripleseat to boost its venue options for groups. Bizly's meeting... KEEP READING

Meetings technology giant Cvent put another feather in its cap today, announcing the acquisition of Chicago-based group event distribution and booking... KEEP READING

Qantas has launched a new distribution platform through which third-party channels can better mimic capabilities of the carrier's website, including the... KEEP READING

Lufthansa Group has signed a multiyear subscription with Routehappy. Lufthansa Group will use Routehappy's Universal Product Attributes to describe... KEEP READING

British Airways has gone live on SAP Concur TripLink. Now, when clients link their Concur account and BA frequent-flyer account through either supplier,... KEEP READING

TravelBank, a booking and expense platform that incentivizes travelers with rewards cards for beating trip-cost estimates, has added hotel bookings. The... KEEP READING

T&E software management provider Certify has upgraded the Certify Travel mobile booking tool to include air bookings. Previously, users could book only... KEEP READING

Egencia's gross bookings for the first quarter rose 15 percent year over year to $2.08 billion, parent company Expedia Group reported Thursday. Expedia... KEEP READING

American Express Global Business Travel will bypass Air France-KLM's 11-euro fee for indirect channel bookings. Amex GBT will not pay a fee for bookings... KEEP READING

Expedia Group has reached an agreement with Air France-KLM to avoid the 11 euro per-way global distribution system surcharge on its platforms, including... KEEP READING

BCD Travel and Air France-KLM have reached an agreement in which BCD agents can book reservations with the carrier without incurring the 11 euro per-way... KEEP READING

Sabre Corp. has promoted Roshan Mendis to chief commercial officer of the Travel Network business, putting him in charge of global sales, sales... KEEP READING

Airlines Reporting Corp. is integrating its settlement data with NDC Exchange, the marketplace that provides interoperability between schema versions of... KEEP READING

WTMC CEO Sarosh Waghmar is breaking away from entrenched corporate travel industry paradigms by building proprietary technology and pursuing a New... KEEP READING