Business Travel News

Business Travel News | October 11, 2019

Travel management company ATG is leveraging the natural language processing, information retrieval, automated reasoning and machine learning capabilities of IBM's Watson Assistant to deliver booking recommendations, based on the traveler's past bookings, via chatbot and voice command. "I've always found online booking to be tedious," said ATG CEO Tammy Krings, "and it's based on 25-year-old technology and hasn't really changed or kept pace with how people use t...

Business Travel News | November 21, 2019

One of Japan's biggest travel management companies has signed on with hotel and airfare price tracking specialist Yapta. JTB Business Travel Solutions, a joint venture between JTB and CWT, will offer Yapta's FareIQ and RoomIQ services to its corporate customers across Asia and beyond via a reseller agreement, according to Yapta. The partnership broadens Seattle-based Yapta's footprint in Asia and connects it with "thousands of businesses that are looking to save on travel,"...

Business Travel News | July 30, 2019

Stewart Travel based in Glasgow, Scotland, and founded more than 30 years ago has joined Vancouver-based Uniglobe Travels network. Uniglobe especially intends to leverage the travel management companys expertise in servicing the travel needs of shipping, offshore and marine security industries, Uniglobe founder and CEO Gary Charlwood said. In this month alone, two Middle East agencies and one French agency have joined Uniglobe....

Travel Trends Today | January 16, 2020

EbixCash, a fully owned subsidiary of Ebix, announced a strategic travel technology partnership with Amadeus to grow its footprint across the Asia Pacific region and UAE and become a one-stop shop for travel. The partnership will provide EbixCash’s online websites, travel agents and corporations in Asia Pacific and UAE with greater access to the unrivalled breadth of content offered by the Amadeus Travel Platform, enabling EbixCash to better serve its customers. Built on fully open systems...