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American Express Global Business Travel is beginning a "phased approach" to making New Distribution Capability content from Air France and KLM available in its Neo booking platform and Egencia, the travel management company announced.The approach will begin with a pilot making the NDC content available for select Egencia customers in France and select Neo customers in France and the Netherlands via an Amadeus NDC-X connection. The rollout will expand "as capabilities mature," according to Amex GBT. The TMC did not specify in its announcement when the pilots would begin.Amex GBT said Air France and KLM have met its Minimum Marketable...

Airbnb has expanded its Entrepreneurship Academy to more than 40 partners after its initial launch in 2017 with one partner.The aim of the program is to bring people from diverse and underrepresented communities to host on Airbnb in conjunction with local partners.Airbnb and the Nasdaq Enterpreneurial Center help fund partner organizations that in turn support their own entrepreneurship programs.Organizations participating in the 2023 Academy include UNESCO, the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs and the Development Bank of Southern Africa.Alexander Leicht, chief of the section of education for sustainable development, UNESCO, said: “Together with Airbnb we implemented a pilot project aimed at empowering individuals...

Terry Jones was founder of Travelocity, founding chairman of Kayak and co-founder of Wayblazer.When we launched Travelocity in 1996, it had state-of-the-art design and, along with Expedia and others, it created the largest category of e-commerce. Sad to say, the travel user interface has hardly progressed since those days ... until now.I can say from experience, and with solid evidence, that ChatGPT will radically improve sales conversion and customer satisfaction, if implemented correctly.How do I know?In 2013 I got a call from the office of Ginni Rometty, then CEO of IBM. She asked if I could come to IBM and...

Cost and travel time still take precedence over carbon emissions when people book trips. But sustainability is a growing concern among travelers, with an increasing number of consumers citing emissions as a factor in their booking decisions, according to a new study.Omio, a Berlin-based ground transportation platform, reports these and other findings in “The Omio Mobility Report: Winter Travel Trends,” which compares data from the first three months of this year to the same period four years ago. The Omio Group is comprised of Omio and Australia-based multimodal company Rome2rio. The comparison of Q1 2019 with Q1 2023 shows a 20%...