Two-thirds of Brits travelling on business are still reluctant to use a sharing economy-type accommodation or ground transportation provider.
Australia’s Flight Centre Travel Group is ramping up its presence in Europe and has bought Travellink‘s corporate travel business in five markets.
Corporate travel technology creator KDS has been acquired by American Express Global Business Travel.The most recent version of KDS-owned Neo includes a mobile component, offline booking, group ticketing and integration into a company’s reporting platform.
GBTA 2016 points out that balancing business travelers’ needs for familiar consumer-like booking experiences, with their companies’ needs to manage cost and ensure traveler safety was clearly a top concern.
Net space sold at Asian trade fairs jumped by 5.6% to almost 19.7 million square metres in 2015, according to figures released in an annual UFI report.
Concur has studied its booking and expense data and found that there has been a 56% growth in usage of sharing economy-type accommodation between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016.
MICE venue search portal and online one-stop-service platform Eventown Group announced on July 1 that it has completed a third round of funding worth over RMB 100 million led by Harvest Capital and joined by its existing investors.
Enterprise software provider Etouches has acquired Zentila, a hotel-sourcing platform based in Orlando, Fla.