Business Travel News

In this upcoming webinar, Christopher Hook, global head of sustainability at Uber, and Lydie Charpin, vice president of corporate travel and spend management at Mastercard, will join Skift to discuss how businesses can maintain transparency and accountability for sustainability goals, establish clear and measurable steps to reduce CO2 emissions, and balance new sustainability practices with cost, considering not only their company’s bottom line but also the brand and customer experiences.

Making business travel more inclusive for women would go a long way in helping the sector make more progress in its recovery. But companies still have a lot of work to do help female business travelers overcome the challenges they face.

Business travel spending faces an uphill battle: Stringent corporate policies and a growing preference for video conferencing diminish prospects for reaching 2019 levels.

The rapid integration of consumer technology in the business world is leading corporate travel, finance, and accounting departments to pursue creative strategies and efficient software that bring corporate travel, payments, and expenses into one seamless workflow.

While it’s still too early to say when business travel could make a full recovery, smaller businesses drove some important trends in the first quarter.

Reports of corporate travel’s demise turned out to be greatly exaggerated, but companies aren’t spending as freely as they did pre-pandemic. As CFOs increasingly have a say in employee travel — and the need to balance expenses with duty of care rises — all-in-one travel and expense solutions are taking on a growing importance.

Conversational search is an exciting space in travel, even for the somewhat tedious side of travel and expenses management, which now sees the virtual assistant role extended into a data analyst. Navan is offering predictive travel budget solutions.

It’s all about priorities. Companies are now reviving their travel programs with a new set of top-down corporate focuses, regardless of where employees choose to work from.

American has thrown out its traditional playbook as blended travelers become one of its most lucrative customer segments. But will the good times continue?

Still some way to go, but Hertz is confident blended travel trips will boost its bottom line this year.