Articles tagged “amex gbt”

Business Travel

Skift Power Rankings: Greg O’Hara

As the founder of private equity firm Certares, O’Hara has been one of the most active players in travel industry deal-making.

Skift Power Rankings: Greg O’Hara

Podcasts

Labor Day Surge, Middle East Bump, and Amex GBT and AI

Today's podcast looks at a Labor Day travel boom, using AI to support business travel, and a surge in Middle East tourism.

Labor Day Surge, Middle East Bump, and Amex GBT and AI

Business Travel

Amex GBT Blends AI With Agents to Win Business Travel Share

The travel-management giant is using AI to read and respond to trip requests via emails. The goal is to free up human agents for more critical tasks, like perhaps explaining to executives why they can't expense that "team-building" trip to Vegas.

Amex GBT Blends AI With Agents to Win Business Travel Share

Travel Technology

Booking.com, Amex GBT, Airbnb, Tripadvisor: What Travel Execs Are Saying About AI

Big travel companies have the resources to plan major tech overhauls to integrate AI, but it's taking longer than some had expected.

Booking.com, Amex GBT, Airbnb, Tripadvisor: What Travel Execs Are Saying About AI

Airlines

American Airlines Seeks to Repair Travel Agency Ties After Direct Bookings Strategy

American reintroduced its fares to the channels where travel agencies want to book them, and Isom acknowledged their absence was their biggest "pain point." The airline, too, will be feeling pain for some time.

American Airlines Seeks to Repair Travel Agency Ties After Direct Bookings Strategy

Business Travel

Booking.com for Business — Here Are the Numbers That the Company Hasn’t Revealed

Here's a look at the stealthy Booking.com for Business. Parent company Booking Holdings has larger priorities, but this unit is growing.

Booking.com for Business — Here Are the Numbers That the Company Hasn’t Revealed

Business Travel

TravelPerk Acquires AmTrav, Doubling U.S. Revenue

TravelPerk has joined a group of business travel companies making acquisitions this year, and industry decision makers say there are more to come.

Business Travel

Corporate Travel Companies Are Bulking Up: ‘Getting Bigger Is Critical’

Pressure from travel suppliers who want better merchandising tools and lower costs are compelling travel management companies to consolidate.

Corporate Travel Companies Are Bulking Up: ‘Getting Bigger Is Critical’

Business Travel

How Remote Workers Are Reshaping Corporate Travel Policies

Business travel by remote and hybrid workers has presented new complexities for corporate travel managers, and costs are just one issue.

How Remote Workers Are Reshaping Corporate Travel Policies

Business Travel

What an Amex GBT-CWT Merger Means For Expedia and Booking.com

As in the planned American Express Global Business Travel Group merger with CWT, many marriages have in-law issues.

What an Amex GBT-CWT Merger Means For Expedia and Booking.com