New Emburse data on $9.1 billion of company expenses: transportation is 11% of spend but accounts for 42% of this year's increase, and it's coming from more trips, not pricier ones. Industry ticket data says the opposite. Here's how to find out which story is yours.
GBTA's new poll: European travel sentiment made the biggest turnaround of any region since April, and 65% of Europe-based buyers now expect to spend more. Your 2027 hotel rates are being negotiated right now, on a year of soft European demand. Here's how to lock them in before the market moves.
ARC's new print: US agency air ticket sales hit a record $9.8 billion in August, up 19% — but passenger trips rose just 5% and the average ticket hit $624, up 17%. The growth is price, not activity. Budget season starts now; here's how to build a 2027 line that survives it.
This week an expense platform became one of the first finance connectors inside Claude, and a TMC shipped an assistant that books a round trip in under five minutes by chat. 92% of travel companies see the agentic upside; 16% are very concerned about the fraud. Before you hand an agent your data an
Spotnana just bought TROOP to capture it. A new Skift study: only 20% of companies have a meetings department, 53% of event teams sit in marketing, and smaller meetings get misfiled as "travel." Here's how to pull the invisible 40% into view before your 2027 budget — and your CSRD file — has to exp
American ends Flagship First sales in November. Delta's premium cabin outsold main cabin for the first time last quarter. Corporate premium bookings +9–15% YoY. 8% of managers loosened premium policies — 2× last year, highest since pre-pandemic.
European Sleeper's new Brussels–Cologne–Zürich–Milan night train launches 9 September — 3 nights a week, couchette from €49.99, arrival before the workday. Rail is roughly a twentieth of a flight's per-passenger CO2, and CSRD Scope 3 Category 6 is now an audited number, not a footnote. The gap betw
Wait times at Germany's biggest hubs are 2× what they were last July, per airport data reported by the Financial Times. Amsterdam and Munich are already at the same point. The pre-travel authorization that was supposed to layer on top of this just slipped — meaning EES is the border reality your pr
Corporate Travel Management relisted on the ASX this week after a scandal that grew into a ~A$246M remediation bill. The audit that *cleared* its Australian accounts explained exactly why they were clean — costs there hit individual cards, so there was nothing to bury. It's 2027 sourcing season: th
Skift's Q2 brief + BTN's payment-innovation package spelled out the same shift — the payment layer is consuming managed travel. Whoever owns the card feed owns the program.
For any global company with employees from Nigeria, Cambodia, Ethiopia or 47 other countries, a US business trip now needs a $10K–$20K refundable bond posted before the visa issues. Your 2027 mobility budget just changed.
In 14 months, AI-generated fakes went from 0% to 71% of detected expense fraud — deliberately priced to slip past your auto-approval. Your controls were written for paper.