Global Business Travel Group（Amex GBT）宣布，其被Long Lake Management以全现金交易收购已完成，公司估值约63亿美元。该交易于2026年5月4日公布，并于2026年8月3日经股东特别大会批准。根据合并协议，Amex GBT股东每股获得9.50美元现金，较合并协议签署日30日成交量加权平均价溢价65.1%。交易完成后，Amex GBT普通股停止交易并从纽约证券交易所退市，公司转为私有。Amex GBT首席执行官Paul Abbott表示，此次交易将Long Lake的AI工程团队引入公司，加速塑造商旅管理的未来，从代理式客户工具到AI赋能的…
During the 2026 TravelDaily Summit, Ctrip Corporate Travel won the Most Trusted Travel Management Company (TMC) award at the TravelDaily Business Travel Awards (CBTA), voted by corporate travel managers and business travelers. Meanwhile, the Ctrip Corporate Travel AI Ecosystem won the AI Product Track Excellence Award at the 2026 DTA Digital Travel Awards. Launched at the April 2026 Global Partner Conference, the AI ecosystem covers the full travel and procurement workflow with seven AI Agents: travel Q&A, itinerary booking, travel approval, travel insights, compliance and risk control, financial settlement and resource procurement.
IHG Hotels & Resorts announced broad recognition across its Luxury & Lifestyle portfolio in the 2026 MICHELIN Key selection, with 51 properties awarded across four brands: Six Senses, InterContinental, Regent and Kimpton. Six Senses London earned its first MICHELIN Key in its opening year, Six Senses Zighy Bay was elevated to Two Keys, and four Regent properties were recognised. The business now spans more than 600 hotels worldwide across six brands.
BCD Travel published an updated business travel preparation guide in September 2026, covering the full trip cycle from first booking to post-trip expense reporting. It advises travellers to confirm trip purpose and approvals, review company travel policy (covering booking channels, preferred airlines and hotels, cabin class, ground transportation, payment methods and approval rules), check passport, visa and entry requirements, and organise itinerary and payment details. On packing, it stresses preparing around actual meetings, keeping hard-to-replace items such as laptops, chargers and presentation materials in carry-on, and building a repeatable packing and tech-kit system for frequent tr…
JetBlue is expanding its premium travel offerings. BlueHouse lounges are now open at Boston Logan and New York-JFK, with complimentary access for eligible domestic and international Mint customers. JetBlue now operates 150 daily flights with lie-flat beds across transcontinental, transatlantic and select Caribbean markets. BlueFirst launches in Q4 2026 as a new domestic first-class option alongside Mint. BlueSky, the JetBlue-United collaboration launched in 2025, offers reciprocal points earning and redemption plus reciprocal status recognition. Fort Lauderdale now has more than 100 daily departures, expected to reach about 150 by year-end. JetBlue also introduced streamlined fares and has…
The article compares native integrated travel and expense platforms with stitched solutions (pure expense + TMC or TMC + expense). Native platforms have self-owned supply chains, pre-booking controls, unified data, clear responsibility, and all-inclusive annual fees, suitable for mid-to-large enterprises with annual travel spend over 2 million RMB; stitched solutions suffer from post-hoc controls, lack of negotiation power, and data fragmentation, only suitable for small businesses.
Navan and Engine announced a strategic partnership to bring Engine's intelligent content, infrastructure, and payment capabilities into Navan's platform. Travelers will benefit from more choices, especially for extended stays and group trips, and greater flexibility for changes. The partnership leverages Engine's Omni API to provide seamlessly connected technology, supporting group bookings, extended stays, and last-minute changes. Initial features roll out this month.
BCD Travel has published a guide to help corporate travel programs handle disruptions such as hurricanes, geopolitical events, and labor actions. The guide proposes a five-step framework: stakeholder alignment, supplier flexibility, intelligence-driven decisions, traveler communication and support, and continuous assessment. It emphasizes building resilience before a crisis, not during one.
BCD Travel has published a blueprint for travel program resilience, emphasizing that resilient programs help organizations support travelers, manage costs, and keep business moving when flights are canceled, routes change, or unexpected events disrupt plans. The blueprint covers why resilience matters, program design, and intelligence and visibility, offering a framework for corporate travel managers to build robust programs.
BCD Travel reports that its online booking tool TripSource, implemented for a global oilfield services company, delivered an 11% increase in OBT adoption, a 4% reduction in average transaction price, and a 10% decrease in offline touchpoints within three months. The client operates in 26 countries and now uses TripSource for a connected booking, service, and engagement experience, supported by Advito.
BCD Travel and SQUAKE co-hosted a webinar providing a practical framework for corporate travel programs on Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF), covering understanding SAF, evaluating credibility (evidence, documentation, chain-of-custody), and communicating progress safely. Inga Bösl of Siemens Switzerland shared real-world experience implementing SAF in corporate travel.
HeSi released a 2026 corporate travel platform selection guide, emphasizing the priority of integrated expense control. It points out that independent TMC solutions have long-term hidden costs over 25% higher than integrated solutions. The guide proposes four evaluation dimensions and shares a case of an East China equipment manufacturing group, where after deploying HeSi Smart Travel, pre-compliance rate increased from 64% to 99.2%, finance reconciliation hours dropped by 87%, and employee reimbursement cycle shortened to 0 days.
Maycur published a 2026 mobile expense software recommendation guide, proposing seven experience criteria: receipt capture, mobile application and approval, itinerary association, budget alerts, mobile approval, cross-platform collaboration, and group adaptation. The article compares four solution types: Maycur, standard expense, travel portal, and ERP mobile. Maycur Expense supports iOS/Android clients and WeChat Work, DingTalk, Feishu, offering smart receipt capture, mobile approval, budget control, suitable for large groups, listed companies, SOEs, and global enterprises.
Navan announced the launch of its most granular set of policy controls, giving global enterprises precise financial control while providing travelers with clearer choices. New capabilities include flight policies tailored by traveler group and flight duration, rail policies by journey duration and traveler group, and country-level hotel limits with city-specific exceptions. These features aim to help travel managers maintain compliance and cost control in a dynamic environment.
Travelport has formally launched TripServices, its cloud-native API platform and the engine powering the next generation of travel experiences. The platform normalises and curates content across multiple sources from a single connection, ranks content dynamically using machine learning and includes embedded orchestration. It is already live with Travelport's growing partner base, with air, hotel and ancillary content flowing through it. TripServices is also the platform through which Travelport's collaboration with Cognizant and Anthropic takes effect, bringing AI capability into the workflows travel builders and agencies rely on.
At GBTA Convention 2026, SAP Concur announced a set of AI-powered travel and expense (T&E) capabilities spanning a delegates dashboard, an approval management agent, enhanced admin controls, corporate card management, and a meeting planning agent. The company says it ranked first in worldwide T&E management software with 48.1% 2025 market share. Most features are in early adopter phase, with general availability spread from Q3 2026 to Q1 2027.
Travelport and Air Zimbabwe have signed a multi-year distribution agreement that returns the airline to global distribution for the first time in over a decade. Air Zimbabwe's content will be available through Travelport+ to agencies worldwide, with Travelport first to market with the airline's UM-validated content. The deal follows the live cutover of Air Zimbabwe's Crane Central Reservation System with Travelport. The carrier will launch direct Harare-London Gatwick flights on 22 July 2026, operating three times weekly with a 302-seat Airbus A330-300.
Travelport and Turkish Airlines have signed a new multi-year distribution agreement that extends a partnership dating back to 1993 and includes NDC. Turkish Airlines' content will be available through Travelport+, including NDC-only fares and advanced merchandising capabilities, with an NDC go-live expected in a future phase. The deal also offers a reduced surcharge for NDC and enables rich visual content and ancillary merchandising. Agencies can access the content through Smartpoint and the TripServices cloud-native API platform.
Travelport has introduced Air Canada Flight Pass capability within TripServices API and Smartpoint, enabling agencies to shop and book eligible Air Canada NDC offers using Flight Pass credits directly within the Travelport+ platform. Travelport says it is the first NDC GDS aggregator to implement Air Canada's Flight Pass credits. The capability removes the need to leave Smartpoint or rely on airline-direct channels to manage eligible Flight Pass bookings, and supports the associated payment and booking requirements.
Amadeus released a new report, Orchestrating Success, revealing that transformative AI tools are ready, but their successful adoption depends on strong foundations of trust, security, and governance. The report finds AI is poised to fundamentally transform the role of travel managers by automating repetitive tasks such as policy queries, approvals, and disruption management, freeing them to focus on forecasting, risk management, and wellbeing. It highlights AI use cases already taking shape in Amadeus Cytric, including trip intent detection, zero-touch trips, and dynamic policy.
Juniper Group has announced the completion of its acquisition of Deem, a corporate travel management platform, from Travelport. Deem provides booking, procurement and trip management solutions for corporations and travel management companies worldwide. As part of Juniper Group, Deem will continue to operate independently under its current leadership team and brand. The acquisition was sponsored by Juniper Travel Technology. Travelport and Deem will continue to maintain a relationship following the transaction.
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Long Lake Management for $9.50 per share in cash, valuing the company at approximately $6.3 billion. The transaction is supported by investors including General Catalyst and Alpha Wave, and is expected to close in the second half of 2026. Amex GBT will become a private company, and the American Express brand licensing agreement will remain in place.
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) reported strong Q1 2026 financial results, with revenue up 35% year-over-year to $840 million and adjusted EBITDA of $150 million. The company highlighted total new wins value of $3.4 billion and a 96% customer retention rate, and launched AI-powered Complete and next-gen Egencia. Due to the announced acquisition by Long Lake, the company has suspended earnings calls and financial guidance.
Ctrip Corporate Travel officially launched its AI Open Platform, modularizing and standardizing AI capabilities through an MCP open system for customers and partners. The platform offers three-tier open architecture (standard, advanced, custom) covering information queries, resource recommendations, itinerary planning. Claimed improvements: booking efficiency +85%, compliance accuracy 90%, cost reduction 15%.
Booking Holdings announced that Brigit Zimmerman will become CEO of Priceline effective January 1, 2026. Zimmerman has served as Priceline's Chief Commercial Officer since 2022 and previously held senior vice president roles in flights, packages and hotels. Current CEO Brett Keller, who has been at Priceline for 26 years and CEO since 2016, will continue as Special Advisor to the CEO until May 1, 2026.
TravelPerk announced its rebrand to Perk, launching an AI-native platform that unites travel and spend management, with a mission to eliminate 'shadow work' — the invisible, non-core tasks employees do outside their main job. Forrester Consulting research commissioned by Perk found shadow work costs businesses $1.7 trillion a year across six major economies (US, UK, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands), with employees losing about seven hours per week on average. Perk says its platform automates two thirds (67%) of the most frustrating non-core work and adds an AI-native spend management module plus Perk Pay physical cards. The company has crossed $300m in annualized revenue and established…
Perk (formerly TravelPerk) and Amadeus have extended their distribution agreement to include NDC content, bringing Perk's NDC connectivity to 25 airlines. New connections include Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines, Air Canada, Scandinavian Airlines and LOT Polish Airlines. Perk will continue sourcing a wide range of other content from Amadeus, including air, hotel, mobility and transfer services, plus automation and servicing solutions. Perk says it has more than 10,000 customers globally, including Wise and Red Bull.
Amadeus and business travel and spend management platform TravelPerk have extended their distribution agreement to include NDC content. TravelPerk will continue sourcing a wide range of content from Amadeus, including air, hotel, mobility and transfer services, plus automation and servicing solutions, giving its customers broader, richer content and greater choice. TravelPerk says its NDC capabilities now extend to 25 airlines and that it has more than 10,000 customers globally.
Amadeus hosted a hackathon in Bangkok in October 2025 focused on using agentic AI to simplify traveler experiences, enhance personalization, and improve travel operations. Travel players from Asia Pacific used at least one Amadeus Self-Service API alongside Google Cloud's Gemini models, Agent Engine on Vertex AI, and Agent Development Kit. The theme was reimagining search, book, and service experiences. Teams included Trip.com, MakeMyTrip, PKFARE, and BCD Travel. Winning ideas covered personalized travel assistants, business travel assistance, and autonomous search agents.
SAP Concur announced a strategic alliance with American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) and the launch of Complete, a co-developed next-generation solution. With AI at its core, Complete aims to combine booking, servicing, payments, and expensing into one experience. It will integrate the Amex GBT marketplace, covering 600+ airlines and 2 million+ properties, into the SAP Concur technology stack. Concur Expense will also integrate with Amex GBT Egencia. The two companies will allocate funding and development resources, accelerating NDC content releases and unified traveler support.
Amadeus signed an agreement with Scandic Hotels, the largest hotel chain in Scandinavia, to deploy the Amadeus Agency360 Enterprise Solution, marking the first enterprise adoption of Agency360 in Scandinavia. The travel intelligence software tracks travel agency bookings from the industry's three major GDSs and will help Scandic analyze agency data across its 280 properties in the Nordics as well as Poland and Germany. The enterprise edition provides 12 months of forward-looking data and 24 months of historical insight, with bookings analyzable by owner, property category, and region.
Bulgaria Air expanded its long-term collaboration with Amadeus, broadening its IT deal and signing a full content distribution agreement. The carrier will migrate to Amadeus Reference Experience, a self-service interface, and adopt Enhanced Re-accommodation and Disruption Transfer for disruption management. Through Travel Intelligence modules such as Traffic Analytics and Schedule Analytics, the airline can use market data to improve route planning and capacity utilization. Amadeus-connected travel sellers worldwide will gain access to the carrier's up-to-the-minute schedules, fares, seat availability, and inventory.
A SAP Concur blog post discusses the definition and implementation of sustainable growth, emphasizing a balance of environmental, social, and economic considerations. It notes that the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) measures a company's maximum growth without financial leverage, and describes how SAP Concur solutions support sustainable development in travel and expense management through automation, green labels, and carbon budgets.
A SAP Concur blog post says 53% of travel and expense decision-makers report major business consequences from the inability to scale and adapt T&E solutions, and 78% want a single platform for both travel and expense. It advises companies to scrutinize processes and systems, prepare for new-market regulations and data-security risks, improve spend visibility, and build a global model with region-by-region deployment. It also stresses listening to employees, especially Millennials and Gen Z, on policy transparency, social value, simplified technology, and NDC, citing views from Unisys and NYU.
SAP Concur published a blog outlining key features and best practices for choosing travel and expense (T&E) software, arguing that travel, expense and accounts payable (AP) platforms should be truly integrated. It cites measurable gains from its integrated solutions: 2x faster expense reporting, 19.2% less time booking trips, 35% more invoices processed and 21% average savings in booking and expense reporting. A case example says Campari Group, after adopting Concur Expense (2017) and Concur Travel (2020), achieved 50% faster trip approvals, 13% fewer expense report rejections and a 70% reduction in offline travel agency fees.
SAP Concur published a blog on November 18, 2024, discussing five challenges HR faces in corporate travel and solutions. Challenges include policy compliance and clarity, cost management, health and safety, employee satisfaction and experience, and technology integration. The article cites the 2024 SAP Concur Global Business Travel Survey, which found 35% of global travel managers say their company is most focused on meeting employees' needs for flexible travel options, while 32% say their company is focused on cutting back on business travel costs. Safety concerns are the biggest reason business travelers would decline a trip, with 44% concerned about destination safety, 35% about politica…
SAP Concur published a blog outlining five principles for choosing a spend management solution, urging companies to deploy AI-driven tools within six to twelve months to cut costs and lift employee productivity. It cites customer examples from Unisys, New York University, Prison Fellowship and AtriCure, emphasizing spend visibility from integrating travel and expense data. SAP Concur says its solutions serve more than 51,000 businesses and integrate with over 200 ERP, CRM, HR and accounting systems.
A SAP Concur blog post outlines five features that business transformation leaders consider must-haves for a future-forward spend management solution: a mobile app for employees on the go, a smart dashboard for real-time spend visibility, versatile data integration and compatibility, scalable architecture, and customer support with a knowledge base. It says best-in-class mobile apps use AI and machine learning to extract receipt details from photos, import and categorize corporate card transactions, and flag non-compliant expenses, and stresses seamless integration with CRM, ERP, and accounting systems.
SAP Concur announced it has added Amadeus' NDC content to the existing NDC content base in the new Concur Travel, making Amadeus' 27 globally NDC-activated carriers available to corporate customers. SAP Concur says business travelers will get a richer booking and flight management experience, while travel managers gain access to new offers including continuous pricing and more retail and merchandising options.
At its SAP Concur Fusion customer event, SAP Concur shared its vision for the future of travel and expense management, where these tasks practically manage themselves, removing the need to write expense reports, understand compliance policies, or sacrifice personal preferences. The company said it will develop solutions that are intelligent, predictive, instinctive, and continuously learning, leveraging its position as one of the largest aggregators of travel and expense data to improve efficiency, compliance, and employee satisfaction through generative AI and machine learning.