EY's Blockchain Booking Experiment; AA's NDC Plan; BTN's 25 Most Influential

 

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December 15, 2022 EY Set to Expand Blockchain Booking Experiment By Michael B. Baker About six months into an experimental project of providing a blockchain-based portal for U.S. employees to book leisure trips, EY's travel team is ready for global expansion and an added hotel component. More importantly, however, it is coming away with a "clear case" that such a set-up could be used in a larger corporate booking environment. Keep Reading BTN's 25 Most Influential in 2022 Business Travel News' annual retrospective looks at the industry executives, technologists, travel buyers and politicians  who impacted the business travel industry in 2022. Read More American Tells TMCs to Be NDC-Ready by April or Lose Some Content Access American Airlines has alerted travel agencies that they need to be connected to the carrier's New Distribution Capability technology by April 2023 to ensure access to its full range of third-party public channel content. Keep Reading American, JetBlue to Add 10 Cities to Northeast Alliance American Airlines and JetBlue in 2023 will expand their Northeast Alliance with 10 additional destinations from LaGuardia, Newark and Boston Logan, the carriers announced. Keep Reading JetBlue Revamps TrueBlue Loyalty Program JetBlue has redesigned its TrueBlue loyalty program, offering new perks and choices that will go live in spring 2023, the carrier announced. Keep Reading "People need to stop procrastinating and get on with testing stuff. By not doing anything, we're not helping anyone, and the only one being penalized is the end user, the traveler." - EY's Ian Spearing Read More FairFly Automates Change Order Processing for TMCs FairFly has developed a tool to automate miscellaneous change order processing for travel management companies, the travel technology provider announced. Keep Reading Amex GBT, Traxo Pilot Off-Channel Booking Capture Service American Express Global Business Travel and Traxo are piloting a collaboration to capture out-of-channel bookings with a large client and hope make it widely available in the coming months, according to Traxo. Keep Reading Egencia Launches Well-Being Dashboard Egencia has developed a dashboard to help companies track metrics related to traveler well-being, including benchmarking data among other clients. Keep Reading TripActions Secures $400M in Credit Facilities for Liquid Expansion TripActions has secured $400 million in credit facilities, which it said it will use to accelerate customer growth, particularly with its payment and expense management platform Liquid. Keep Reading CBRE: U.S. Hotels' F&B Revenue Trails Pre-Covid Levels CBRE Hotels Research cites staffing shortages, cost control and straggling group travel through April 2022 among the top causes for the U.S. hotel industry's lagging food and beverage department revenue. Keep Reading Furnished Apt. Co. Blueground Leans into Corp. Market Q&A with Blueground's Alex Chatzieleftheriou Furnished apartment rental provider Blueground is increasing its business travel focus through its Blueground for Business program. BTN's Angelique Platas spoke with Blueground CEO Alex Chatzieleftheriou about its corporate offerings and outlook. Keep Reading Envest Global, CAPA Release Airline Sustainability Ratings The second effort in the ongoing partnership covers 100 airlines, using 2021 data. The report places each carrier into a rating category based on 11 key metrics. The rating also accounts for how readily each carrier discloses its own sustainability performance. Keep Reading AHLA Launches Member Sustainability Initiative The American Hotel & Lodging Association has launched an initiative for members that aims to make operations, meetings and amenities in U.S.-based hotels more environmentally responsible. Keep Reading IATA: SAF Production at Least Tripled in 2022 The International Air Transport Association estimates sustainable aviation fuel production to reach at least 300 million liters in 2022, about triple the 100 million liters produced in 2021. Keep Reading TripStax to Add Hotel Booking Capabilities with Hotelzon Buy Travel management technology company TripStax has acquired hotel booking platform Hotelzon from Travelport, with plans to use the platform to offer a "fully integrated hotel booking tool" for corporate and travel management company clients. Keep Reading DOT: September Air Complaints Lower but Persistent  Read More Acquisition to Take Coupa Private Next Year  Read More Grapevine Adds Gant as Third U.S. TMC Client  Read More Amex GBT's Qualantone Sets June 30 Retirement Date  Read More Breeze to Add 22 Routes in 2023  Read More Marriott to Double Edition Portfolio, Add Residences  Read More CTM to Bring 1000 Mile Consultant Network to N. America  Read More Accommodation Platform AltoVita Appoints CTO  Read More 301 Route 17 North, Suite 1150 Rutherford, New Jersey, USA 07070

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