The Skift 2019 Corporate Travel Innovators List
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Skift Take
Innovation is slow in corporate travel, mainly due to the entrenched legacy systems that undergird the sector and the complex web of financial incentives that power incumbents. These leaders are doing something different in a space defined by convention.
Every company wants to be innovative, but a small few are more successful than others. So many companies across travel claim to be innovators that it can be hard to even understand what innovation is anymore.
Corporate travel, of course, is dominated by legacy players like American Express Global Business Travel or Concur that provide solutions to the biggest companies in the world. Innovation often comes from smaller players, which face an uphill battle competing against the industry’s billion-dollar behemoths.
For the second annual installment of this list, Skift’s editorial staff took a look at the corporate travel ecosystem to identify the executives and leaders that have helped the industry evolve in recent years.
You can read last year's edition here. In 2017, we outlined the most interesting startups in corporate travel at the time.
For the sake of clarity, we define innovation as something new that helps move the industry forw
