Business Travel News

Younger business travelers are comfortable with new services and change in general. Traditional players in the industry should take note.

The travel industry needs to embrace the geopolitical realities of the world. More than anywhere else, Europe is at the center of a wholesale reimagining of the role that tourism and hospitality play in uniting global governments, cultures, and companies.

While U.S. government actions in the past couple months have caused upheaval in the business travel world, the Global Business Travel Association executive director reminds us that the industry is dealing with all kinds of change at the moment.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

If young business travelers are making ride-sharing and home-sharing part of their routine, it's only a matter of time before the alternative options become mainstream.

After a frank conversation with Carlson Wagonlit Travel CEO Kurt Ekert about the company's past shortcomings and goals for the future, we're more interested than ever before to see the new innovations developed to empower business travelers.

Better personalizing booking and travel tools for business travelers is something of a holy grail in corporate travel. Time will tell if Carlson Wagonlit Travel's newfound focus on technology will be effective.

Better late than never. Sales teams for meetings and events are finally starting to use software to forecast demand and extract the most money possible.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

We've been tracking disruption in corporate travel for the past year, and this week we're happy to deliver a roundup of some of the most innovative new companies shaking up the industry.