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New Business Travel IQ benchmarking report shows highest TMC fees

A new benchmarking report has shed light on which European corporations are paying the highest travel management fees, based on where they are headquartered. In the follwoing guest post, David Chapple explains some of the differencies and the the reasons behind. The report from Business Travel iQ shows businesses in the UK and Ireland have the roughest deal, paying the most for online air bookings particularly long-haul and low-cost flights. They are charged more for online touched bookings, while also paying the third highest offline fees in Europe. French travel managers have a more mixed fee structure, the report

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Business Travel

Booking.com is targeting Business Travel

Booking.com – a subsidiary of Priceline – is currently trying to take the business travel sector by storm. The odds are not too bad for the hotel giant. No business traveller who does not know the website of Booking.com and its functionalities. But so far almost no business traveller was yet allowed to use it for booking a business trip. This might change soon for some corporations. The great user experience will be enhanced with corporate discounts, a loyalty program and a reporting. The Travel Management will be able to set maximum allowances and the locations of its own

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Airlines

Google Flights – ready, steady, launch

Nothing spectacular…… A couple of days ago Google – without making a lot of noise -has launched Google Flights in Switzerland. At first sight – nothing spectacular and by far no revolution in Metasearch. All functionalities of the application are pretty well known from sites such as ebookers, Expedia, Momondo and Kayak/Swoodoo. … but everything has changed But then everything has changed for the industry. Not that every agent on the phone will notice this immediately – it will take some time. From now on and without knowing any of the above mentioned Metasearch Engines, every caller will potentially know

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