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It's good to see that the corporate travel world recognizes the need to make business travel more like leisure. We're eager to see how that continues to play out in reality.

While corporate travel management companies are still playing catch up to the leisure space when it comes to the sharing economy and online booking, it seems like their executives have realized the scope of the problems they face and are looking to increase the pace of innovation going forward.

The irony of this conversation, unfortunately for car services, is that ridesharing trips already account for nearly half of ground transportation spending expensed through U.S. companies. So the fingerpointing and recriminations continue.

Big travel management companies are going to look to acquire technology companies and smaller competitors as they struggle to scale up their technology platforms.

Travel managers will have a lot to worry about going into next year; at least significantly higher prices likely won't be one of them.

Uncertainty remains the key word when it comes to business travel, but a year of record spending followed by "moderate" growth is still good news for the industry.

The holy grail for a travel manager would be an all-in-one app that travelers would actually want to use while staying within company policy — and on the radar in case of emergency. Goals are good.

Many companies are realizing that they cannot ignore the habits of their business travelers, but approval of the sharing economy is far from universal.

Legacy carriers are up against rising competition from low-cost carriers. At the same time, American, Delta and United talk about making the travel journey more connected but they're forcing budget sensitive travelers in the opposite direction of that with new pricing structures.

Forecasts are calling for business travel growth to rebound in 2017; we are eager to see if companies agree.