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Brex takes a swipe at Concur with an expansion into travel

TechCrunch

In yet another example of how competitive the spend management space has become, Brex announced today that it has expanded into travel. In an interview with TechCrunch, co-CEO and co-founder Henrique Dubugras said that users of Brex Empower will now be able to book travel inside the Brex mobile app.

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Corporate travel management companies: how to choose the best provider for business trips

Altexsoft

One million dollars invested in airfare annually — not long ago this figure was cited as a benchmark for businesses to start seeking help from a travel management company or TMC. So their key clients were large enterprises with multimillion budgets spent on corporate trips. When and why it makes sense to implement managed travel.

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Bed Banks: Comparing Accommodation, Travel Ancillaries, Connectivity of Hotelbeds, Travco, Bonotel, HotelsPro, and WebBeds

Altexsoft

A bed bank (also called a wholesaler ) is a B2B company that purchases rooms from accommodation providers in a bulk at a discounted, static price for specific dates and sells them to OTAs, travel agents, airlines, or tour operators. Travel ancillaries. Bed banks aggregate inventory from suppliers and resell it to other businesses.

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Host Travel Agencies: Why You Need Them and How to Choose the Best Option

Altexsoft

In 2020, the travel industry found itself among the sectors hardest hit by COVID-19. American Society of Travel Advisors (ASTA) reported a 75-percent cut in revenue across travel agencies versus 2019. What is a host travel agency? Optionally, they even may serve the needs of corporate travel.

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Managing an Online Travel Agency: How Back Office System of an OTA Works

Altexsoft

Online Travel Agencies are often painted as disruptive titans, a threat to travel planning as we used to know it. Being big complex systems, with tons of connectivity channels, providers, travelers and many solutions that have to be heavily managed, OTAs have a lot happening on the administrative side.

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Incooling is building servers that use liquid to cool down

TechCrunch

For IT teams, satisfying new climate-friendly energy budgets is presenting a challenge, particularly when dealing with older computer hardware. A diagram illustrating how Incooling’s phase-change cooling system works. Image Credits: Incooling. ” Certainly, Incooling’s mission is an important one.

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Lufthansa’s digital future takes flight with ‘Digital Hangar’

CIO

A new business unit, which also has hubs in Brussels, Frankfurt, Gdansk, Vienna, and Zurich, Digital Hangar was founded in September 2022 with the aim to create the world’s best-connected travel experience, incorporating both in-person and digital services. It really became apparent there was something lacking in our landscape,” he says.

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