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As pressure mounts on businesses to reduce their contributions to climate catastrophe, an increasing number are introducing one or both of two accounting mechanisms aimed at dialing down their travel-related [...]

2020 has been a deeply paradoxical year for travel management companies. Many have emerged with enhanced credit to their reputations for looking after customers during the coronavirus crisis but often [...]

Siemens believes carbon emissions can be reduced not only by traveling less but also by traveling smarter. Its travel sustainability strategy stands out especially for the focus it places on [...]

It's a quarter century since the first online booking and expense management tools emerged with the dawn of the internet. Working with technology has formed an essential part of any [...]

For the avoidance of doubt, as lawyers like to say, companies can eliminate their corporate travel emissions in only one way, and that's not to travel. Yet, though that has [...]

Evidence of substantial new barriers to business travel from the U.K. to the European Union is mounting following the completion of Brexit on Dec. 31. One travel management company revealed [...]

India is the coming nation in business travel--in more ways than one. The country has registered the fastest-growing corporate travel spend of any major market for each of the past [...]

Can travel buyers advance human rights? Maybe. In March 2019, actor George Clooney called for a boycott of the Dorchester Collection of hotels, which includes The Dorchester in London and [...]

Will the U.K. exit the European Union on March 29, or will it postpone or cancel the scheduled divorce? If the U.K. does exit, will any continuity agreements be in [...]

In the pre-digital world, a profile was, and still is, an unstructured block of text that travel management companies retain within their global distribution system. The text amounts to a [...]

In a year when so many other urgent needs could have taken precedence, Novo Nordisk is quite clear about its number one priority for travel management in 2021. 'As we [...]

Paying for travel in Europe has become more complicated following the introduction of mandatory cardholder verification known as Strong Customer Authentication. Use of a plastic card is now likely to [...]

Overall business travel spend plunged 58 percent in Western Europe in 2020 and 50 percent in Eastern Europe, according to the Global Business Travel Association's BTI Outlook. Given the almost [...]

Companies should avoid requiring or even asking employees to adopt digital travel health passports until they have conducted extensive data-privacy impact assessments, according to the global head of privacy for [...]

Increased anti-fraud verification of electronic card payments, known as Strong Customer Authentication, on Dec. 31 will come into force across the European Economic Area. But the travel and payment industries [...]

International business travel will not revive while visitors are routinely quarantined on arrival. That is the clear verdict of the 335 travel buyers polled as part of BTN's 2020 State [...]

The twin coronavirus-driven urgencies of financial liquidity and risk reduction, not to mention challenges in airline refund settlement, have triggered a shift from cash to card payments for air bookings [...]

Travel managers worldwide must take immediate action to ensure their European travelers' personal data is transferred lawfully outside the European Union, the German travel management association VDR has warned. VDR [...]

Sierra Leone's Ebola-plagued capital, Freetown, is 3,000 miles from London and 3,600 from Cape Town, yet it is the latter city, not the closer-by U.K. capital, that has been feeling [...]

For the 31st time, Business Travel News looks at the executives who most influenced the business travel industry in the previous year to understand the directions in which they have [...]

Microsoft has become the first corporate customer to pilot a book-andclaim scheme that verifies the authenticity of sustainable aviation fuel production and ensures the attendant carbon savings can be claimed [...]

British Airways aims to launch a self-service account management portal for corporate clients by the end of this year. Head of sales Mark Muren told BTN Europe the portal will [...]

Routine applications for U.S. passports are taking up to 18 weeks from submission to delivery, the State Department last month warned in an update. The 18-week timeframe includes up to [...]

Customer relationship management tools are conquering the corporate world, and the implications for managed travel are profound. Service providers like travel management companies and suppliers like airlines and hotels are [...]

Card security measures that take effect in the European Economic Area Sept. 14 are set to disrupt corporate travel payments. The introduction of Strong Customer Authentication 'will see a greater [...]

Travel and payment providers believe they have found their way around an obstacle preventing widespread adoption of virtual cards: taking them mobile. Virtual cards have long been hailed as the [...]

The mandatory implementation of Strong Customer Authentication in the United Kingdom for e-commerce payments, including for many business travel bookings, has been delayed by an additional six months to March [...]

The U.K. government has conceded that Brexit has created barriers to business travel in a report published March 24 by the House of Lords, the upper house of the country's [...]

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Three travel buyers--Geoff Allwright, Airbus parent EADS UK head of travel and expenses; Honeywell corporate EMEA travel manager Cindy Van der Elst and Credit Suisse vice president in [...]

The Business Travel News/Association of Corporate Travel Executives third annual European TopMarket Benchmarking Report, along with a discussion among survey participants at October's annual ACTE Global conference in Prague, provided [...]

The European sales and distribution division of medical devices company Boston Scientific Corp., based in Nanterre, France, has reaped benefits from being one of the first businesses to implement an [...]

Europe today is not at the point where self-booking tools can be considered ubiquitous, but the first-ever survey in this marketplace suggests it has at least passed a tipping point. [...]

Three weeks after the owners of both the Business Travel International and the TQ3 Travel Solutions joint ventures announced they were splitting, the corporate market generally is reacting favorably to [...]

Easier planning and booking of air and train journeys, standardized emissions measurements, improved cross-border rail ticketing, financial protection for passengers against supplier failure and more taxation of aviation. All this [...]

Recent reports of some very good negotiated deals corporate buyers are getting from U.S. carriers on transatlantic air routes may take some of the sting out of the horrifically high [...]

Data Privacy Champion HONORARY CHAIRMAN, NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS MAX SCHREMS Max Schrems took on big business and governments over their privacy violations and won--twice. His legal campaigns have had [...]

The Advocate CHIEF EXECUTIVE, THE BUSINESS TRAVEL ASSOCIATION CLIVE WRATTEN One of corporate travel's strongest voices on either side of the Atlantic during the coronavirus crisis has been CliveWratten.The chief [...]

'Quarantine Bingo' Caller PRIME MINISTER, UNITED KINGDOM BORIS JOHNSON British international business travelers were introduced to a new game in summer 2020: Quarantine Bingo. Would the country they planned to [...]

The Deal Breaker CHAIR, U.K. COMPETITION AND MARKETS AUTHORITY INQUIRY GROUP MARTIN COLEMAN When global distribution system provider Sabre announced in 2018 its intention to buy Farelogix, a company whose [...]

A U.K. court has sided with payments company Wex on the key preliminary issue in ongoing litigation over its planned back-out of a January agreement to buy eNett and Optal [...]

If you're a travel manager hoping for special treatment from European governments to get business travel moving again, keep hoping. All European Union member states currently operate blanket bans on [...]

'It looks as if the dollar will not do U.S. travel managers any favors in 2003,' ran the final sentence of last year's international per diem analysis in the Business [...]

IN A FEDERALIZED, DECENTRALIZED COUNTRY LIKE Germany, each region has its distinctive reputation. Berlin is the political capital, Frankfurt the city of finance. North Rhine-Westphalia is the center of heavy [...]

The logic of supply and demand would lead travel buyers to assume that the cost of venturing abroad is falling. The 2003 Business Travel News Corporate Travel Index for the [...]

BTN contributing editor Amon Cohen and editorial director David Meyer met four European-based buyers at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Copenhagen in October to discuss all [...]

Travel agents and suppliers in Europe increasingly are not bidding on RFPs issued by corporate buyers, citing frustration due to unreasonably short deadlines for responses, demands for unnecessarily complex information, [...]

The timing of business travel's biggest event, the GBTA Convention, doubtless had something to do with it, but recent weeks have seen a notably high number of announced realignments, partnerships [...]

Travis is named for his travel department's motto, 'Travel Is Simple.' He was built by Michael McSperrin, the Krakow, Poland-based global head of facilities and support services for talent acquisition [...]

On April 1, U.K.-based travel management company CTI introduced a white-labeled version of the Atriis online booking and content aggregation system. Called Plannet, the tool will pipe in supplier content [...]

This year, AirPlus International will replace its corporate card for U.K. individual-pay customers with a card subject to transaction fees, chairman Patrick Diemer said. The change came after the U.K. [...]