Posted January 17, 2012
Disclosure: I've served ProcureApp as an unpaid advisor. Procurement folks hate undiscounted spend. They'll love ProcureApp. Why? Because it detects when a buyer (think traveler) has wandered onto a non-approved supplier's website. When that happens, a friendly message pops up.
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Posted January 3, 2012
The following is a guest column by Gillespie's Guide to Travel+Procurement author Scott Gillespie.
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Posted December 2, 2011
Short’s Travel, arguably the most innovative TMC in North America, has done it again.*
Book It** allows a corporate traveler to search for airfares on any site, then e-mail the selected flight info to Short’s for booking and en-route servicing. Completely automated. Fast results. Pure genius. Read More »
Posted November 21, 2011
Consultant Scott Gillespie takes a poke at peer input on travel websites
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Posted November 15, 2011
My, what a contrast in travel innovation. The first two presenters at today’s PhoCusWright Travel Innovation Summit were Hipmunk and Evature. Both focus on simplifying the travel search process. Pay attention to the implications for corporate travel.
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Posted October 26, 2011
Democracy blooming in the Middle East. Leaderless revolutionaries occupying Wall Street. Student athletes organizing to get paid. Presidential candidates wanting to overthrow the U.S. Tax Code. Do you see the implications for managed travel?
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Posted August 3, 2011
Let's face it, it's just a matter of time before hotels start offering non-refundable rates to corporations. And you thought the hotel RFP process was already a pain in the butt. Just wait until buyers have to try comparing a 10-day advance booking for a 20% discount at one property to a 25% discount for a 14-day advance booking at the hotel across the street. Will this really happen in the corporate space? Oh yes. Maybe not soon, but eventually.
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Posted June 15, 2011
AirPlus has cracked the code on reporting airline ancillary fees.
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Posted June 13, 2011
Talk to anybody who has tried to clean up corporate hotel data, and you’ll know they hate doing it. It’s a pain in the butt to take a company’s hotel booking data from its TMC, and merge it with the company’s paid hotel data from its corporate card.
The first and arguably hardest step is to normalize the hotel identities. Somehow, you have to recognize that a credit card transaction at the “Marriott Courtyard in Salt Lake” should be tied to the reservation mad Read More »