ADTRAV Media Center
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Travel in the Time of COVID-19
Travel in the Time of COVID-19 Restaurants and bars are closing their community spaces, parks and other public spaces are off limits, gatherings in general are being discouraged…it even feels wrong to have a face-to-face conversation with your neighbor. For many of...
Inside Enterprise’s Acquisition of Deem
With Enterprise by Its Side, Deem's Future Looks Bright (and Innovative) Travel technology provider Deem first partnered with global rental car provider Enterprise in 2011, and in 2016, Enterprise took a minority stake in the travel platform. In the first quarter of...
Inside Southwest’s Decision to Enable GDS Bookings
What This Means for Corporate Travel Starting in 2020, Southwest Airlines will at long last provide “full” content and booking capabilities through the Travelport and Amadeus global distribution systems. What does this mean for corporate travel programs? In our...
Business Travel Takes a “People First” Approach
When people think of “business travel,” it rarely conjures up fond memories. In fact, our minds might be more likely to drift to the classic scene from the movie Planes, Trains and Automobiles, where Steve Martin’s high-strung character loses his mind at the rental...
More Executives Looking to Sharing Economy
Sharing economy services like Uber and Airbnb are now ubiquitous in the travel landscape, but their use in corporate travel programs has been more the exception than the norm. Is a shift on its way? Part of the problem travel managers have faced with early adoption in...
How Traveler Data Shapes the Traveler Experience
Harnessing traveler data in the right way can dramatically improve the travel experience--on the individual level and for company travel programs. Traveler data is essentially a subset of big data, sets of data so large they cannot be processed through traditional...
Travel Industry Increases Focus on Data Security
As we continue our inevitable drift toward a fully digital world, the need to protect personal information increases with each passing day. To complicate things further, as we progress down this digital road, not only does it become increasingly important for us to...
Bleisure: Business Travel’s New Normal
If you’re going on a business trip to San Diego, you might as well enjoy a little sun and sand while you’re there, right? As silly as the term bleisure may sound, this growing trend is changing the way companies view business travel, all the way from travel policies...
ADTRAV Bulletin: Real ID Act Update
The Department of Homeland Security has announced a final deadline for REAL ID Act implementation: October 1, 2021. Although passed in 2005 to set stricter standards for identification, it has taken years for states to prepare for REAL ID Act compliancy and...
TMCs Vs. Online Fare Booking
A Business Traveler’s Primer If you travel frequently for business, chances are you’ve learned to simplify your process as much as possible. You always have backup chargers to prevent that panicked run for a replacement before a meeting. You choose shoes that are...