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We don't want to sound like a broken record, but we believe travelers and employers alike will be better off when corporate travel tools become easy, intuitive, and user-friendly.
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought and sold.
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The Future of Corporate + Business Travel
This week brought some surprise news of the acquisitions-we-didn't-expect variety.
Concur, a major presence in the corporate travel world, announced it had signed an agreement to buy metasearch site Hipmunk. The six-year-old site is known for its "agony" sorting option, which takes into account price, flight, duration, and number of stops.
Concur plans to keep the consumer-facing Hipmunk brand alive while improving its own value to frequent business travelers with the site's intelligence.
"Six years ago, our vision was to take the agony out of travel and travel planning," Hipmunk co-founder and CEO Adam Goldstein said in a statement. "This combinati
