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Hot 25 Travel Startups for 2027: Bliink
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November 9, 2026
Bliink is a corporate travel concierge built for Southeast Asia's small and midsize businesses.
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November 9, 2026
Blis AI develops autonomous AI agents for leisure travel agencies and TMCs.
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November 9, 2026
Clarasight offers data management solutions for the corporate travel space.
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Amex GBT’s CTO on AI agents, servicing and working with Long Lake
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October 27, 2026
Amex GBT CTO Michael Esquibel said Long Lake is "in it for the long haul" as the pair collaborates on AI.
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Travel startup funding rounds were elusive in Q3, while acquisitions were more abundant.
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BizTrip AI launches on Claude, ChatGPT
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September 23, 2026
BizTrip said the move better positions the company as AI changes how enterprise software reaches end users.
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Travel's stolen data problem: Why cybercriminals want booking details
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September 23, 2026
Ordinary customer and business data can become raw material for targeted phishing, impersonation and extortion in travel, and agentic AI may further accelerate attacks.
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Flight Centre open to TMC acquisitions as corporate travel market consolidates
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August 26, 2026
Chris Galanty, global CEO of the corporate divisions at Flight Centre, addressed questions about M&A strategy during the company's earnings call to share its full-year 2026 financial results.
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Spotnana acquires Troop to consolidate transient travel, meetings and events
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August 26, 2026
The companies first partnered in 2022 to automate meeting location selection and travel booking capabilities and combine them into a single workflow.
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Perk expands MCP capabilities to allow action via AI assistants
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August 19, 2026
Perk launched its MCP connector last month to link AI assistants and corporate travel software.
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AI and technology investment driving business travel growth
By Linda Fox
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August 5, 2026
Figures from the GBTA Business Travel Index Annual Global Report and Forecast revealed spend is predicted to increase 7.2% in 2026 while the volume of trips will increase 1.3%.
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August 4, 2026
Mumbai, India-based Bizey wants to eliminate manual expense workflows with automated processes.
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Meeting travel agents where they are: Why conversational chat decides agentic AI adoption
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August 3, 2026
Oversee CTO and co-founder Ami Goldenberg argues that agentic AI in travel operations succeeds or fails on adoption—and what decides adoption is the interface agents touch every day.
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Engine acquires Options Travel to build modern OBT
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July 31, 2026
Engine and Options Travel started working together nine months ago, with Engine now developing an AI-native OBT for TMCs.
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BCD Travel invests in corporate travel AI platform Amgine
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July 30, 2026
The investment expands an existing partnership between BCD and Amgine confirmed in July 2025.
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