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Travel's movers, shakers and newsmakers in 2025
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December 17, 2025
PhocusWire names its 2025 newsmakers, spotlighting the companies and individuals behind the most significant moves.
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How corporate travel, payments could change by 2030
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December 16, 2025
Blockskye co-CEO and co-founder Brook Armstrong shared his vision for the changing payments frontier at The Beat Live.
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Amex GBT CEO on why AI will ‘strengthen and strengthen’ TMCs
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December 4, 2025
At The Beat Live event this week, Amex GBT CEO Paul Abbott detailed why he believes TMCs can thrive in an AI environment.
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3 key shifts happening in the corporate travel landscape
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December 2, 2025
Executives from Amex GBT, Festive Road and Spotnana discussed how travel search, content distribution and trip servicing are changing for corporate travel buyers and bookers.
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Discussing leadership amid the changing travel landscape
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November 25, 2025
During the 'New Leadership for a New Age' session at The Phocuswright Conference, small groups discussed leadership and culture, technology and transformation and teams and inclusion.
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Amex GBT to unveil upgraded Egencia with agentic search
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November 13, 2025
Amex GBT's total transaction value increased 23% year over year to $9.5 billion. Excluding CWT, the increase was 9%.
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Banks and airlines continue battle over consumer loyalty
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October 24, 2025
A new report from consulting firm IdeaWorksCompany highlighted strengths and weaknesses of both entities, but banks maintain an edge.
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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Amex GBT, PriceLabs, Expedia, Trust My Group and more
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October 17, 2025
Keep up with all the latest people, partner and product news from around the global travel industry.
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PassiveBolt, Replyr.ai win People’s Choice Awards at the 2025 Global Startup Pitch
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October 8, 2025
The awards spotlighted two rising stars of travel and technology at WiT Singapore this week.
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Amex GBT, Concur partner for integrated travel and expense offering
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October 3, 2025
The offering, dubbed Complete, is a combined effort of both companies that will be available to joint clients later this month.
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The Phocuswright Conference 2025 - speakers and program
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September 11, 2025
The Phocuswright Conference 2025 takes place in San Diego November 18-20 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt.
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Travel tech flashback: What made headlines in 2024?
By Morgan Hines
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September 10, 2025
The travel industry was enamored with artificial intelligence (AI) in 2024, with the topic repeatedly making waves.
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Amex GBT-CWT merger completes
By Rob Gill - BTN Europe
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September 2, 2025
Amex GBT's $540M acquisition of CWT, which was first announced in March 2024, was delayed because of scrutiny from U.K. and U.S. regulators.
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Travel Tech Flashback: What made headlines in 2018?
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August 19, 2025
Take a look back at some of the headlines in the travel industry from 2018. Do they any bearing on what's happening now?
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PhocusWire's weekly travel tech news briefs: Agoda, Navan, Qatar Airways and more...
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August 15, 2025
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