May 21, 2012 - 10:10 AM ET
Concur
is initiating discussions with airlines to enable "open bookings"
that would give corporate clients the ability to enforce policy, apply discounts
and track transactions when travelers book on airline websites.
May 18, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET
Bowing
to cost and timing concerns of local chapters about the "Chapter of the
Future" initiative, the Global Business Travel Association announced it
would "modify the timeline" and form a cross-functional task force that
includes chapter representatives...
May 17, 2012 - 07:20 AM ET
For
the past two years, First Data global strategic sourcing director Pamela McTeer
has "run a circle" on her company's travel category management,
moving through assessment, strategy development, implementation and measurement
before restarting the...
May 16, 2012 - 11:05 AM ET
Lodge
cards are set to receive their biggest shake-up in 30 years as various trials
start later this summer to generate single-use 16-digit card numbers in the
passenger name record of every air booking made through a central payment
account with...
May 15, 2012 - 03:15 PM ET
U.S. Bank announced a global partnership with United
Kingdom-based settlement technology provider Conferma to help corporate
customers automate travel expense reconciliation of virtual or single-use
accounts and embed necessary reporting detail into...
May 15, 2012 - 10:25 AM ET
An
annual survey of more than 500 senior finance executives at large firms found
they are "holding the line on travel spending," contrasting the
"positive signs to increase their budgets" respondents noted in 2011.
May 14, 2012 - 12:45 PM ET
The White House Office of
Management and Budget on Friday instructed federal agencies to cut fiscal-year
2013 travel expenses by 30 percent from 2010 levels, 10 percentage-points
deeper than previously ordered cuts.
May 11, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET
Perhaps
not surprisingly, U.S. business travelers not part of managed programs "are
more satisfied with many aspects of business travel compared to others in more
structured programs," according to a recent Global Business Travel
Association Foundation...
May 11, 2012 - 10:30 AM ET
Despite
the May 1 deadline for Global Business Travel Association chapters to formally
accept the new "Chapter of the Future" financial and organizational
model that among other things would require them to pay GBTA $70 per member
and, beginning next...
May 10, 2012 - 03:25 PM ET
It's
fashionable to say business travelers increasingly are going rogue, but that's
neither new nor true in absolute. While some commentary and certain data of
late have supported the going-rogue theme, others have not. Dozens of recent
interviews...
May 09, 2012 - 12:35 PM ET
Arguably
the dominant philosophical debate in corporate travel in 2012 has been whether
"consumerization" will lead to corporate travelers deserting their
managed travel programs and booking who and how they like. It is a scenario
that conceivably...
May 07, 2012 - 03:10 PM ET
Travelocity
Business announced TBiz Chat, a new feature allowing business travelers to
"connect live with a certified Travelocity Business corporate agent"
for help with site navigation, bookings, changes, invoices, receipts and other
functions.
May 04, 2012 - 12:15 PM ET
Preferred
hotel blackout dates—those periods when negotiated rates are not available for
booking—are on the rise, according to some travel buyers, citing blackouts as
long as weeks or even a month. Increased travel demand and higher levels of
sophistication...
May 02, 2012 - 03:50 PM ET
Few
travel and meeting expense management "deficiencies" or policy
violations are exposed in Congressional hearings such as those last month on a
U.S. General Services Administration event held in Las Vegas. Nor are they
typically detailed in inspector...
May 02, 2012 - 03:10 PM ET
American
Express Global Business Travel created a new regional structure and named three
longtime execs to run the regions. Tom Bligh became senior vice president and
general manager of the Americas; Katrina Cliffe was named vice president and
general...