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Top 10 Business Travel services for business
October 30, 2024 | Editor: Adam Levine
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Business Travel apps and services that allow employees to plan, book, manage, and share travel activities, keep trip details in one place, track expenses and generate reports.
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SAP Concur's easy-to-use business travel and expense management software solution helps your business save time, money and gain control. The Concur booking tool makes business travel a snap—starting with customized options that align with your company policies. You can also upload electronic folios, directly to expense reports. Concur provides full visibility into spend and the ability to ensure policy and regulatory compliance.
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TripIt organizes travel plans into an itinerary that has all of your trip details in one place. Simply forward confirmation emails to plans@tripit.com and TripIt will automatically build an itinerary for your trip that you can access anytime, either online or from a mobile device.
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Navan (formerly TripActions) is the only integrated Business Travel & Expense solution. Save time and money with discounted rates, policy controls, and productivity features. Eliminate out-of-policy spend with controls built right into corporate cards. Empower your employees to book and manage travel with ease and give your company unprecedented control over their travel program
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The world's business travel platform. We bring the power of Expedia Group to deliver simple, consumer-like business travel that users love and fast, expert support for unexpected moments
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TravelPerk gives you the safest and most flexible experience in business travel, backed up by the best support team on the planet.
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Booking.com for Business is a free, all-in-one platform that makes corporate travel management easier. Enjoy complimentary travel support from CWT, and exclusive business rates while booking flights, accommodation and car rental for your next business trip.
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Expedia is an all-in-one travel companion where you can plan, book and manage your whole trip, plus earn rewards, in one place.
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Find and book cheap flights, hotels, vacations and rental cars with KAYAK.com. Hotel, flight and travel deals. Search hundreds of travel sites at once. Kayak website and mobile app enable you to easily compare hundreds of travel sites with one search. Once you find what you want, we let you choose where to book (most travel sites do not).
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Best free travel itinerary & road trip planner app. Build, organize, and map your itineraries in a free travel app designed for vacations & road trips
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TripCase is a traveler’s key to better trips. It’s an intelligent mobile app that guides you through every stage of your trip, making you the savviest traveler out there. Save yourself time and the hassle of not knowing what's coming. Use TripCase to be connected and prepared when you travel.
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All-in-one expense and travel solution to manage business spend. Improve team productivity by making it fast and easy for employees to track spend, even when they work from home. Our integrated solution automates reporting and improves visibility into spend.
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Airbnb provides comforts of home, on the road, whether you’re going on a business trip or relocating to a new city, find homes and boutique hotels with 5-star reviews from other business travellers.
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Spotnana's Travel-as-a-Service Platform powers unparalleled global travel experiences for corporate travelers.
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CWT simplifies corporate travel. Get more out of your business travel program, or meetings and events, with our cutting-edge travel technology and efficient customized experiences.
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Rocketrip cuts a company’s travel costs by incentivizing employees to spend less on their trips. When employees get to keep a portion of the savings they generate, they start to treat the company’s money like it’s their own.
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Turn those piles of confirmation emails into clear travel itineraries, automatically synced to your mobile devices and calendar. Simply forward your confirmations to plans@traxo.com. Link your favorite loyalty accounts to Traxo to track points and miles balances, and automatically import new reservations to your trips. Traxo will even update your itinerary if your reservations change.
Important news about Business Travel services for business
2024. Ryanair launches partnership with SAP Concur
Ryanair flights are now accessible for corporate travellers to book via new Concur Travel through a direct connection. This signifies direct access to Ryanair’s low fares and network of key city connections across Europe with regular morning and evening flights, giving the business travel world more options at the lowest fares in Europe. Corporate customers who reserve Ryanair flights directly through the new Concur Travel will also gain significant efficiencies and the convenience of their booking details being fed into SAP Concur solutions, reducing any unnecessary admin. They also won’t have to complete Ryanair’s Customer Verification, making their business travel experience even more effortless.
2023. Google Flights will now tell you when it’s the cheapest time to book
Google Flights has introduced a fresh feature designed to enhance travelers' ability to determine the optimal moment for booking their flights. Utilizing historical trend data, the company is launching new insights that empower users to observe the usual low price periods for their selected destination on their preferred travel dates. This enhancement is aimed at assisting users in resolving the quandary of whether they should secure their flight at present or hold out for more economical fares. To illustrate, Google elucidates that these novel insights might inform users that the most economical period to finalize their travel arrangements is presently around two months before their departure, or conversely, that prices typically decrease as the departure date approaches. Equipped with this newfound comprehension of their potential savings, consumers can make an informed decision about whether to promptly book or await a more favorable pricing.
2023. Booking.com for Business partners with Traxo to enhance data visibility
In a stroke of cosmic ingenuity, Booking.com for Business, that well-meaning online booking apparatus designed for small and medium-sized enterprises (or SMEs, as they like to call themselves), has teamed up with a rather clever outfit from Dallas known as Traxo. Traxo, it must be noted, has made it their business to know absolutely everything about corporate travel—before, during and after anyone else even realizes there’s travel afoot. Together, these two entities will graciously allow Booking.com for Business clients (who apparently span nearly 200 countries and may never stop expanding) to behold their travel bookings from all manner of platforms in a singular, most agreeable administrator dashboard. This dashingly comprehensive view, replete with insights into ongoing and impending trips, is almost annoyingly convenient. As if that weren’t enough, SMEs now have the option of flinging this treasure trove of travel data toward other obliging services, ranging from expense management to duty-of-care and price assurance—all courtesy of Traxo's universe-encompassing Marketplace.
2022. Corporate travel tech platform Spotnana nabs $75M
Spotnana, a self-styled “travel-as-a-service” platform aimed at corporations, travel management agencies and other tech firms, has secured $75 million in a Series B funding round. Spotnana describes itself as a “comprehensive cloud-based platform,” offering a consistent interface and booking experience for all users. It functions as a single platform for both travelers and agents, who can access the same travel inventory, profiles, policies and rates simultaneously. Spotnana can be utilized in various ways, either as a complete standalone product with its own interface or as an API that enables third parties to leverage Spotnana’s infrastructure to create their own solutions.
2021. Hotel Engine raises $65M as corporate travel rebounds
Corporate travel service Hotel Engine has secured $65 million in a Series B funding round. Hotel Engine refers to itself as a “Lodging Performance Network.” In other words, the startup is a B2B, members-only, global booking platform that aims to offer companies access to improved lodging rates as well as tools and insights designed to “enhance their travel programs.” Meanwhile, it collaborates with lodging providers (commonly known as hotels), who benefit from gaining access to more “high-value” business travelers.
2021. Business trip platform TravelPerk buys rival NexTravel
In a curious twist that might make the most unflappable space-traveler raise an eyebrow, Barcelona-based TravelPerk has zipped across the vast digital cosmos to snap up US-based competitor NexTravel—a move likely inspired by the pandemic’s rather thorough job of rearranging every conceivable travel plan. Now, the grand scheme involves gently shepherding NexTravel’s loyal followers over to TravelPerk’s platform, like a responsible intergalactic tour guide herding cats across a hyperspace byway. Meanwhile, the NexTravel team will dutifully keep their lights on and help identify any quirky tech gaps for as long as it takes to ensure that NexTravel users arrive at their new platform as smoothly as a Vogon space cruiser landing on a soft patch of marshmallow.
2020. TravelPerk launches an open API platform to extend its work trip SaaS
In a bold maneuver that would make even the most well-traveled hitchhiker nod approvingly, the business travel SaaS startup TravelPerk has unfurled an open API-based platform, a veritable Babel fish for the corporate world. Starting with APIs that tackle the delightful chaos of HR and expense management, they’re hinting at a future bursting with more integrations, all powered by that mysterious force known as "demand." The developers, who presumably know the answer to life, the universe, and everything, are adamant that TravelPerk should not become a lonely, self-contained monolith, but a convivial tool ready to mingle with a galaxy of SaaS companions. With a fully open and gratuitously free platform, they’re bracing for a deluge of apps and integrations—possibly tens, hundreds, or something else that might make a Vogon cry poetry tears—in the very near future.
2020. TripActions secures $500M credit facility for its new corporate travel product
TripActions, a Palo Alto-based, corporate travel-focused unicorn, has secured a new, half-billion-dollar credit facility to help support the launch of its second product line. Called TripActions Liquid, the service helps companies that do not offer corporate cards to workers a way to avoid forcing those employees to use their personal cards to float costs for corporate travel. With TripActions Liquid helping workers avoid taking on company expenses and the TripActions product theoretically making booking travel itself a less onerous task, this news item could make life less bad for the working corporates among us.
2019. Corporate travel platform TripActions raised $250M
TripActions, a travel booking service tailored for large enterprises, raised $250 million Series D. Founded in 2015, TripActions is out to replace antiquated travel booking systems with a platform that integrates company HR and expense systems. Using TripActions, business travelers can arrange flights, hotels and transportation, with 24/7 global support from the startup’s staff. TripActions plans to use the cash to accelerate its international expansion. Today, the company has 700 employees with offices in London, Sydney, Amsterdam and more.
2019. Google launched web portal for Google Trips
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