Kazakhstan’s SCAT Airlines Moves to Sabre Res Platform
Kazakhstani carrier SCAT Airlines is moving to Sabre’s passenger reservations system SabreSonic and its commercial platform per a new agreement… Read More »
Tripbam: Corp. Hotel Rates Set to Hit 2019 Levels by Year-End
Current business travel volume is about 30 percent of 2019 levels, and average daily hotel rates remain lower as well… Read More »
AmTrav, Emburse Join Forces for Travel Expense
Booking and travel management provider AmTrav and corporate expense management and payment specialist Emburse have partnered on an automated receipt… Read More »
CWT Enhances Travel Guidance Tool
CWT has added new features to its Travel Essentials guidance platform, a publicly accessible database providing information on Covid-19-related travel… Read More »
U.S. Commerce Secretary Calls Corp. Travel Restart ‘Top Priority’
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo on Wednesday said that restarting business and international travel was a “top priority” of… Read More »
AHLA Relaxes Mask Guidance for U.S. Hotel Employees
The American Hotel & Lodging Association has eased its Safe Stay guidelines regarding mask wearing for U.S. hotel employees In… Read More »
CTM Restructures, Debuts New Global Business Units
Australia-based travel management company Corporate Travel Management has unveiled an organizational restructuring following its 2020 acquisitions of U.S-headquartered TMC Travel… Read More »
FCM to Launch New Platform in China
FCM will roll out a new proprietary travel technology platform in China, with plans to begin piloting the system with… Read More »
STR: U.S. Hotel Recovery Accelerates in May
All three key performance metrics for the U.S. hotel industry—occupancy, average daily rate and revenue per available room—improved from April… Read More »
Flight Centre Partners with HotelHub
Flight Centre Travel Group has signed a deal with aggregator technology specialist HotelHub to provide booking content for Flight Centre’s… Read More »
Egencia Adds Rail Option Alert to Booking Display
Egencia has developed a new display tool to show business travelers and agents the availability of rail options when booking… Read More »
New HRS Payments Growth Chief Knackstedt Sees Opportunity In Recovery
When corporate travel industry veteran Kurt Knackstedt recently took over as chief growth officer for HRS’s Payment Solutions business unit, it became… Read More »
Sabre Partners with Risk Scoring Provider Gopass
Sabre Corp. has added travel health risk management specialist Gopass Global to its Developer Partner platform, enabling travel agents to… Read More »
Amex GBT Adds WhatsApp Support
American Express Global Business Travel has added WhatsApp as a support channel, enabling travelers to communicate with agents via the… Read More »
Cvent, Encore Partner to Offer ‘End-to-End’ Digital Meeting Solution
Meetings management technology provider Cvent and event production company Encore have partnered to offer clients an “end-to-end virtual and hybrid… Read More »
TripActions Unveils Solution for Small Meetings
Travel management company TripActions has developed a new solution that allows users to book and manage small meetings, the company… Read More »
Extended Stay America: Shareholders OK Purchase Offer in Preliminary Count
Extended Stay America shareholders on Thursday voted in favor of the proposed purchase of the company by Blackstone Real Estate… Read More »
Traxo Teams with Newcomer BTP Automation to Overhaul Hotel Sourcing Process
Off-channel booking capture technology Traxo has partnered with Plano, Tex.-based Business Travel Performance Automation to create a hotel program automation… Read More »
Reed & Mackay Adds Direct Meeting Booking Capability
London-headquartered travel management and meetings company Reed & Mackay has added a meetings booking service into its platform by white-labeling… Read More »
HotelPlanner Partners with MeetingPackage for Direct Group Booking
Group hotel booking company HotelPlanner has partnered with the Finland-based group booking provider MeetingPackage and plans to offer clients by… Read More »
Conferma Inks Reseller Deal with GlobalStar
Virtual payments provider Conferma Pay has signed a reseller agreement with GlobalStar Travel Management, enabling the travel management company consortium’s… Read More »
CWT Adds AI Recommendations to RoomIt
CWT has added a recommendation engine powered by AI to its RoomIt hotel platform. Intelligent Display, which can be integrated… Read More »