The Future of Business Travel Buying

August 29, 2017

The traditional travel buying process faces assault from a barrage of disruptors, including shifts to open-booking, emerging “sharing economy” platforms and new tools that can track both traveler behaviors and preferences as well as pricing volatility. Fortunately, as many buyers report both diminishing returns and increasing complexity to the traditional request-for-proposal process, some of these disruptors stand to bring a welcome change to what can be an increasingly frustrating exercise.

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Our mission is to inspire, inform and equip Americans to have European trips that are fun, affordable and culturally broadening. We value travel as a powerful way to better understand and contribute to the world in which we live. We strive to keep our own travel style, our world outlook and our business practices consistent with these values.

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