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Amex GBT Extends Lyft PartnershipBy Michael B. Baker

American Express Global Business Travel and Lyft have signed a five-year extension of their partnership, in which Lyft's rideshare platform and related... KEEP READING

ARC Takes Majority Stake in NuTravelBy Adam Perrotta

Airlines Reporting Corp. has acquired a majority stake in booking application developer nuTravel, the latest step in ARC's push to build out its... KEEP READING

Reflections on a Decade: Top Buyers Consider the 2010sBy Dawit Habtemariam

The past 10 years have been a time of great change in the business travel industry, with mergers and acquisitions, technological breakthroughs and... KEEP READING

Report: Fewer Meetings in 2019 Used RFPs For Venue SourcingBy Donna M. Airoldi

The share of meetings booked in 2019 through Meetingsbooker.com via requests for proposals declined 11 percentage points year over year to 53 percent,... KEEP READING

Average U.S. Hotel Booking Window, Length of Stay Compress in NovemberBy Donna M. Airoldi

Average lead time for U.S. hotel bookings in November shrank by 0.25 percent year over year to 25.4 days, according to a new report by Kalibri Labs.... KEEP READING

Certify/Chrome River Rebrands as Emburse, Names New CEOBy Adam Perrotta

The corporate conglomerate encompassing Certify, Chrome River and four other expense management specialists is being united under a single brand, dubbed... KEEP READING

Expensify Adds Charitable Rewards Program to Corporate CardBy Adam Perrotta

Expensify is turning a portion of revenue it earns on purchases made with its recently released corporate payment card into charitable donations. Under... KEEP READING

IRS Lowers 2020 Mileage Reimbursement Rate

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service for 2020 has lowered the rate used to calculate the deductible costs of operating an automobile for business purposes.... KEEP READING

Travel Leaders Group CEO Chacko Resigns, O'Hara Takes ReinsBy Adam Perrotta

Travel Leaders Group CEO Ninan Chacko has resigned "to pursue other opportunities," the travel management company announced Thursday, and TMC president... KEEP READING

BTN's 10 Most-Read Stories of 2019

The business travel industry in 2019 featured big deals, some structural change, a bit of innovation and perhaps a growing sense of social... KEEP READING

Tzell Travel Group Chairman Barry Liben Dies at 67By Dawit Habtemariam

Tzell Travel Group chairman Barry Liben on Jan. 2 died "after a long year of health battles" at the age of 67, announced Travel Leaders Group, which... KEEP READING

Developing the Future Online Booking ToolBy Festive Road managing partner Paul Tilstone

Earlier this year Festive Road surveyed and interviewed over a hundred business travel buyers and conducted interviews across the online booking tool... KEEP READING

Catching Up with Tripism CEO Adam KerrBy Elizabeth West

Tripism once was known as the personalization poster child of Microsoft's travel program. It's matured since then. The platform has registered 1 million... KEEP READING

Will Travel Get Riskier in 2020?By Chris Davis

With protests in Hong Kong, wildfires in the United States and Australia and continued unrest in Syria, Venezuela and Yemen—to name just a few... KEEP READING

European Buyer Consortium Creates 'Virtual Agency' To Stay TMC-NeutralBy Amon Cohen

Few buyers believe a single travel management company is the best in class in every country worldwide, or even in every country in one region. Yet using... KEEP READING

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