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2 weeks ago | 
businesstravelnews.com | Amon Cohen
Artificialintelligence may be a hot discussion point in travel management but there areas yet few documented instances of buyers walking the excitable talk. Even the34 per cent who claimed they will apply AI in significant ways this year in aGlobal Business Travel Association survey published in February feels more anaspiration rather than reality.
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1 month ago | 
travelweekly-asia.com | Amon Cohen |Michael Baker
Headlines about challenging, often traumatic experiences for foreigners trying to enter the United States since Donald Trump became president on 20 January are appearing almost daily.
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1 month ago | 
hotel.report | Amon Cohen
These selling points may explain why use of virtual cards (a unique, digitally generated card number for a single or limited set of transactions), overwhelmingly to pay for hotel stays, continues to grow handsomely. Virtual card technology provider Conferma claims compound annual growth rate for the market is 15 per cent and for itself is 30 per cent.
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2 months ago | 
businesstravelnews.com | Amon Cohen
Midsize companies getting more serious about managing travel has been one vector for the increase in travel management outsourcing. Another is the fact that the job itself is evolving and requires more specialized skills.
Stepping Out? Specialized travel management requirements like implementinga data strategy or new technology have increased the frequency of limited engagementoutsourcing.
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Feb 17, 2025 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Management
Outsourced travel management – roles where the person doing the work isnot employed directly by the company they are working for – is on the increase. “The number of [outsourced] engagements we have has almost doubled since 2019,”says Sara Andell, director, consulting strategy for American Express GlobalBusiness Travel, generally considered (including by itself) the largestprovider of outsourced travel managers.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Management
Watch out for ‘weaponised uncertainty’, tariffs and travel bans, new trade flows, and proliferating risks for business travellers
The planet’s original business travellers, the Four Horsemen of theApocalypse, could be in for a busy 2025. If that sounds hyperbolic, considerthis doom-laden introduction to the Risk Outlook 2025, published by travel riskmanagement company International SOS (ISOS).
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Management
The Gongs In Travel 2024 – Amon Cohen's alternative industry accolades
It may be the season of Father Christmas going “ho ho ho” but ‘tis alsothe season of business travel execs going “no no no” as they discover theircompany has landed a GIT, the annual alternative accolades known as the GongsIn Travel (spoiler: get ready for a big night if you’re based in Dallas).
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Management
How to measure aviation emissions accurately and consistently continuesto be a headache for corporate travel. Broadly speaking, travel managers want detailed,reliable data for two reasons: to help travellers make lower-carbon choices atpoint of booking; and to meet carbon footprint reporting requirements like the EuropeanUnion’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
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Nov 28, 2024 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Hotels' corporate customers are to be represented by travel buyer advocacybody BT4Europe in the creation of a new hospitality sustainability reporting standard. Angela Lille, Austria-based chair of BT4E’s sustainability working group, hasjoined a taskforce for the standard that is being developed by the Energy andEnvironment Alliance (EEA), a global coalition of hospitality and lodging investors,developers, operators and asset managers.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
businesstravelnewseurope.com | Amon Cohen
Air Travel
How Europe’s policy dilemma could affect travel buyers
Germany’s governing “traffic light” coalition collapsed last week. Businesstravel buyers might apply the same metaphor to Europe’s inconsistent, even self-contradictory,approach to aviation growth. All too often the region seems to flash red, amberand green signals simultaneously as buyers try to understand how governmentpolicies might affect air fares, route networks and their own sustainabilitystrategies.
