BCD Travel

"Innovation" is a word used so often there is a danger that its true meaning can get lost. Not everything new is innovative, while innovation is about more than just the latest tech. At the recent Read More

The mood music around NDC has changed over the past few months - the sometimes melodic but often cacophanous background is now more coherent, more harmonious and more listened to. But some fine-tuning Read More

Lufthansa created a huge stir in the airline industry three years ago when it introduced a surcharge for all bookings made via the global distribution systems. Read More

Travel management company BCD Travel is expanding its offerings for corporate travel managers with a new product platform, SolutionSource. Read More

BCD Travel has developed a platform for corporate travellers and bookers to access third party services. At launch, the marketplace will include a number of startups including Fairfly and Freebird Read More

Fresh from selling Trip.com to Ctrip, Travis Katz joins the PundIT Show with two other luminaries to discuss various matters of state. Read More

Travelers often think it’s important to see all the available options for a trip, but a new project at Daimler, the huge German car and truck manufacturer, gives the lie to that assumption. Called Read More

Where does the intermediary's relationship with the customer end and the airline's begin and what exactly is a direct booking? When you gather travel distribution execs together, inevitable discuss Read More

Three major travel management companies (TMCs) -- American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), BCD Travel, and Carlson Wagonlit Travel -- have signed a partnership with Airbnb, the short-term rental Read More

BCD Travel, the global travel management company, has agreed to buy the assets of GetGoing, a startup in Silicon Valley that powers BCD’s TripSource Hotels tool, which provides hotel results in a way Read More

When it comes to managed travel programs, some companies focus on expanding the range of inventory that employees can book. Others strive to streamline the booking process to create a system that empl Read More

Mobile Travel Technologies (MTT), a mobile platform provider to airlines, hotels, and travel management companies (TMCs), has been on a growth tear. Today MTT has about 170 employees, with a plan Read More

Checkmate is a startup that began a couple of years ago by building mobile tools for hotels to digitize and monetize the process of guests checking in. It has since expanded its aperture to include Read More

This is a roundup of product news and announcements for travel SYSTEMS in tourism and hospitality for July 2014. Thursday 31 July 2014: Japan Airlines to implement Amadeus Altea solution The Read More

Just two and a half years after selling up to BCD Holdings-owned leisure group Travix, hotel booking site EasyToBook has another owner - MakeMyTrip. The deal sees India-based (but US-listed) online Read More