Egencia has not provided rentals and other types of alternative accommodation, as there has yet to be a significant call for it from business travellers.
The Expedia Inc-owned corporate travel agency says integrating products such as vacation rentals would certainly be possible since the mothership's $3.9 billion purchase of HomeAway in 2015 but corporate customers are not looking for it at present.
Speaking during the Phocuswright Europe event in Dublin, Ireland, last week, Christophe Peymirat, senior vice president for EMEA, says the company "does not have a big demand" for alternative accommodation options.
But there is a potential use-case to offer such products for those companies that are looking for longer term stays, he adds.
In addition, the fly in the ointment at present is around Duty Of Care issues with business travellers and how to assign non-hotel properties into a corporate policy, something that many organisations have yet to tackle (or are doing so in other ways).
Meanwhile, Egencia is gradually retiring the Orbitz For Business service that it acquired as part of the deal by Expedia Inc to buy Orbitz Worldwide for $1.6 billion in February last year.
Peymirat says customers and the platform are being transferred over to the Egencia system, creating a single brand and functionality.
The Travelocity For Business service was offloaded by Sabre to BCD Travel in June 2013 for an undisclosed fee, ahead of the sale of the wider Travelocity brand to Expedia Inc in early-2015.