Thank you to everyone who joined us today for AmTrav's April 2025 webinar on stretching your travel dollars, navigating economic uncertainty. Thank you in particular to Grant Caplan, President at Procurigence, for sharing his time and exper...
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Planning an event this summer with travelers flying in? Don't wait, get AmTrav Gather now!
This Valentine's Day AmTrav is bringing you savings that you'll ❤️!
A November (or even October) snowstorm is such a rude way for winter to make its return, yet here we are with a Chicago snowstorm this pre-T...
Hi, thanks to everyone who joined AmTrav's Business Travel Platform of the Future webinar. The recording and results are here for you.
EVs are everywhere: Teslas, Chevy Bolts, Hyundai Ioniqs, Kia Niros, even Ford F150s and Mustangs. You might even drive one yourself, either ...
Chicago, October 14, 2024 – Today AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, announced the appointment of business travel veter...
Thank you to our presenters and everyone who joined AmTrav’s Supplier Sourcing Insights webinars. The video recording of Part 1 featuring So...
Want to make logging into your travel platform a breeze (no relation) for your whole team? Configure a single signon (often shortened to “SS...
The results are in: everybody wants to book everything online.
Thank you to hospitality expert Stephen Fitzgerald of Garner for joining us today to help us understand the good, the bad and the ugly of bo...
The latest GBTA poll from April 2024 shows that 45% of travel administrators aren’t sure when their TMC will be ready to offer NDC and the l...
First, thank you to all who attended, and to our esteemed panel: Kim Hamer of Results Plus Consulting, Cory Garner of Garner Advisory, and o...
AmTrav and ADTRAV, two respected companies that help you book and manage your corporate travel, one with a T and the other with a D. But oth...
United PassPlus® is United Airlines’ prepaid offer designed for small and midsize corporate customers. In exchange for annual prepayment, Pa...
Update: As of Feb. 1, 2024, bookings through PerksPlus, which allows business customers to accrue and redeem PerksPlus points for flights ta...
Learn how to maximize the value of unused tickets for corporate travel and save on travel expenses.
Important update: As of May 29 American Airlines' plan to restrict AAdvantage miles and loyalty points earnings by channel is "off." This pr...
AmTrav was honored to host six providers who work hard every day to make corporate hotel payments easier for travel arrangers & managers.
Some airline SMB programs like Southwest Airlines’ SWABIZ, American Airlines' AAdvantage Business, Delta Air Lines’ SkyMiles for Business (f...
On AmTrav's NDC webinar last week Jeff and Cory shared some insight about how competing TMCs are trying to implement NDC, the technology tha...
Last week AmTrav released the “Where are the fAAres?” report diving into how often American Airlines’ fares were lower on AA.com and AmTrav ...
Last April, American Airlines gave the corporate travel market the biggest shock in the last three decades: American removed nearly 40% of t...
Did you see the weather waiver that United Airlines sent out this morning for the snowstorm hitting the Northeast on Saturday and Sunday?
Having looked at examples of how travel policy works and what happens when travel policy isn’t applied, here are our insights from our resea...
Have you ever spent several hours digging through pre-trip approval requests, or a few minutes reflecting on the thousands of pre-trip appro...
It has been a good year for managed travel customers who use AmTrav. Compared to their peers, they saved 9% with access to American Airlines...
Following AmTrav’s radically honest TMC Secrets webinar (watch it here), yesterday we shared how TMCs make money and how that could change i...
Have you ever wondered how your travel management company (TMC) makes money and pays their bills?
In October 2023 American Airlines announced that the Business Extra corporate rewards program would be discontinued on January 31, 2024. Com...
One occasional request we get when we demo AmTrav’s a2b booking platform to prospective customers is: “I wish AmTrav would only show Economy...
AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest fares on April 3 from corporate booking tools...
AmTrav has tracked American Airlines’ fare changes since American removed many of their lowest fares on April 3 from corporate booking tools...
It's RFP season. And so we are here to talk about how to maximize your hotel savings in 2024, and you're in the right place to learn about t...
It’s been an interesting (and increasingly expensive!) couple of years watching travel costs, as the AmTrav team covered in our 2023 travel ...
DALLAS, Aug. 13, 2023 – AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, announced today the launch of its revamped Change Trips feat...
With decades spent working in corporate travel, the Cornerstone Information Systems team and CEO Mat Orrego are used to change – and NDC is ...
Something we hear more and more from airlines, from customers and from prospects: “NDC bundling.” As we’ve done with NDC readiness, the cost...
AmTrav takes buyers' pressing NDC questions and shares our unique NDC experience on "Not Another NDC Webinar" featuring CEO Jeff Klee, Chief...
We know what NDC-ready means, we know the benefits of NDC, and we know that not being NDC-ready costs travel programs hundreds of thousands ...
Because American Airlines removed 40% of their lowest fares from many corporate booking providers, the big question about New Distribution C...
I know, I know. You've come to rely on the AmTrav Blog for one-of-a-kind insight into American Airlines fare changes and trends. Every Monda...
Last week we examined American Airlines fare differences by fare brand between AmTrav's NDC connection (with lower fares) and legacy booking...
When American's modern retailing strategy was announced in December, one common response from legacy corporate travel providers was "don't w...
It's been two weeks since American Airlines restricted the sale of their lowest fares to NDC "modern retailing"-enabled channels, including ...
AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, today announced upgrades to its corporate booking solution to continue delivering tr...
Have you heard the news – it’s AmTrav Gather’s first birthday! Hooray! In Gather’s first year 120 customers have planned 500 guest and meeti...
Hello and welcome to the second installment of our 2023 webinar series brought to you by Amtrav. Our topic today focuses on maximizing trave...
First off – this is a silly blog post, don’t read it if you’re not up for a silly blog post written by a marketer who's spent too much time ...
Three Things we Learned from Soundings+AmTrav 2023 Meetings Outlook Webinar
In our webinar, NDC Comes to America, held January 31st, 2023, T2RL CEO and former Vice President of Sales & Distribution Strategy at Americ...
We’re continually updating AmTrav’s one connected platform, including implementing your suggestions. While many travel platforms haven’t upd...
The leaves have fallen off the trees, Starbucks pumpkin spice lattes have come and gone, it’s almost time for a well-earned year-end holiday...
The COVID pandemic is finally passing and you can gather face-to-face with your friends and colleagues. Meetings and events, conventions, in...
This week AmTrav met with dozens of travel administrators on our 2023 Travel Forecast webinar, sharing a 2023 rate forecast and talking thro...
Are you tired of wrangling room blocks? Last-minute checkin date changes, begging the hotel to accommodate changes long after the rooming li...
Going by the headlines, summer 2022 travel was truly, uniquely awful.
Virtual cards provided by CSI and Conferma allow corporate customers to securely centralize payment and pay on behalf of travelers, reducing...
It’s fall: the weather is a little cooler, kids are back in school, pumpkin spice lattes are back at Starbucks — and business travel is a wh...
It’s still warm outside and the leaves haven’t started turning, but the kids are headed back to school, Starbucks pumpkin spice latte is bac...
There's a lot of good news for people who like meeting peers face-to-face, who enjoy an invigorating talk from a speaker up on stage, who cr...
Summer travel always means dodging thunderstorms, but in summer 2022 you’re dodging airline, hotel and car rental staffing shortages too. De...
AmTrav was proud to sponsor the BTN’s Travel Tech Talk in Chicago this week, it was great event with a room full of travel experts – and so ...
AmTrav clients have used AmTrav Gather to quickly, easily plan travel for thousands of travelers, getting the policy & approval control they...
Want to expand your role as a travel manager – take on more responsibilities, do cool new work, and advance your career? The “Reinventing th...
AmTrav exists to bring people together face-to-face and make business work better — because it's personal.
As the COVID pandemic slowly recedes we’ve seen a return to meetings and events — and we couldn’t be happier, because AmTrav exists to bring...
Why do buyers choose their booking tools?
What are the biggest opportunities to save your travel program money in 2022?
Quick: what’s the easiest way to save your travel program money in 2022? Answer: use your unused tickets! AmTrav clients saved 10% on airfar...
AmTrav was proud to sponsor the Business Travel News “Structuring a Managed Travel Program & Establishing a T&E Policy” Workshop – wonderful...
We’re about two months into 2022 which means it’s the perfect time to tell you what we’re doing this year (right?)!
AmTrav, the one connected platform for business travel, announces Gather, the travel planning solution for today’s guest traveler. Gather en...
For too long guest travel has been a pain to plan – even with AmTrav – but enough is enough! Next week AmTrav launches Gather, giving you th...
Redeeming unused ticket credits with one click in AmTrav is a great way to save money on business travel -- but don't you wish you could jus...
United Airlines' Propel program is a corporate discount program that offers set discounts on United Airlines and certain partner carriers' f...
My my, how things change in a few short months in the corporate travel industry.
Have you ever responded to an AmTrav post-trip survey and wondered what happens with your feedback?
Why are these expenses so hard? It’s 2023, shouldn’t we have figured this out by now? TL:DR: We've teamed up with Emburse to revolutionize t...
This week AmTrav launched two new tools that help you track your company’s carbon dioxide emissions and allow your bookers to compare the em...
This week the U.S. State Department lowered the advisory level for several countries. Advisories for travel to Japan, Canada, Mexico, Italy,...
Unless you're new to the AmTrav blog (in which case, welcome!) you know that we love unused tickets: from making them easy to track and use,...
You’re preparing to get back on the road for business -- what should you expect?
Today Business Travel News reported on a driver shortage causing a shortage of Uber and Lyft ride options for travelers -- including busines...
American Airlines’ President Robert Isom sat down with business travel publication The Company Dime earlier in April to discuss the state of...
After a long and cold December, January and February, the AmTrav COVID Resource Center state travel restrictions section is starting to thaw...
We’ve all been there: trying to remember how something works and feeling frustrated because we can’t figure it out. If it’s AmTrav, maybe it...
As our CEO Jeff explained in December, his goal for AmTrav’s booking tool is to “show you all the fares being offered for every flight with ...
Last month we wrote about Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Green's suggestion that travelers fully vaccinated against COVID might soon be able to ...
Update Feb.15: The U.S. CDC and Biden Administration stated that they do not plan to require negative COVID tests prior to flying within the...
Last week AmTrav introduced a new Trip Success Report to help you evaluate the success of your travelers’ trips. The goal of this report is ...
Normally the esteemed AmTrav blog doesn’t cover the Lieutenant Governor of Hawaii, but when the honorable Lieutenant Governor has something ...
2020 didn't go as planned, but just like you, we adjusted. We continued building AmTrav's one connected platform to drive your travel produc...
Last month in our post outlining three steps to save money with former employees’ unused tickets, step two was “Head to your AmTrav Unused T...
You've probably seen the news: COVID cases are continuing to climb in the U.S., triple summer case peaks and six times the spring case peaks...
Responding to the Company Dime story about AmTrav’s partnership with Journera to provide real-time trip updates, a reader asked: “I’m wonder...
If you use the AmTrav Traveler Locator Report regularly, you know it gives you an accurate view of your travelers’ itineraries in AmTrav’s o...
The only thing trickier than unused tickets are unused tickets that were issued to former employees! Whether that employee quit, was laid of...
We're really excited to share with you the two new case studies we published this week telling the stories of Beverly at Fischer Homes and J...
Our friends at Southwest Airlines reminded us that it’s officially been one year since we upgraded our flight shopping, booking and change c...
Along with social distancing, face coverings, and meetings switching from in-person to virtual, one change that we’ve seen at AmTrav is an i...
Many aspects of travel have changed with COVID, including the hotel experience. While hotels strive to provide consistent amenities and meal...
Hotel room blocks work really well for weddings. Room blocks offer a lot of flexibility, giving guests the ability to adjust their departure...
One of the hardest tasks for a travel administrator or budget owner is to determine which trips are worth taking. Which trips are a great us...
If you or your coworkers are traveling during the COVID pandemic, you need to remember to bring your mask and hand sanitizer, to book a COVI...
A colleague shared some data with me today. It inspired me to share a story with you.
Coming into 2020 we thought it was a good time to put an emphasis on communicating regularly with our administrators, coordinators and trave...
As part of your duty of care to employees, you should have an action plan that outlines the specific steps to take should someone become ill...
Today we are launching a new COVID Resources Center webpage displaying current travel restrictions and supplier policies to help you and you...
In late February we released a new trip confirmation email format. We lamented that our previous confirmation emails looked like they were f...
We know how hard it is to keep up with the constantly-changing risks and restrictions facing your travelers right now while they conduct cri...
It’s hard to know what to expect when traveling right now in the COVID era. In order to find out and better prepare other travelers, we surv...
This is a story from our colleague Elliott McNamee, who recently used AmTrav to book his personal travel. With AmTrav, you can book personal...
At AmTrav, we fancy ourselves a pretty forward thinking company and we’re proud to have led the industry with many technological firsts. But...
