As previously communicated, the new Concur travel experience (T2) is slated to go live with SAP Concur on October 17, 2023. Acendas Travel actions While we are excited for the much-anticipated roll-out of T2, we have made the decision to temporarily disable the auto-on feature for all Acendas clients, due to significant
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel I can rattle off a lengthy list of ways in which the Covid-19 pandemic affected our business and industry; and changed how we go about our work today and in the future. I am sure you can, too. There were few industries stressed
It does not take long before a meeting with a prospect touches upon the issue of dollars and cents. That is understandable, especially if you have unmanaged travel for your company or organization. Early in our conversations, prospective clients want to know what it will cost to utilize our travel
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It is indeed proper that the 40th anniversary is known as the “ruby” anniversary because it stands for the burning flame of passion that has sustained the relationship for four decades and supplies energy in moving forward. While the anniversary of a company’s start
You’ve made the decision to implement a managed travel program – and then reality hits you square in the face: you have to implement it across the company. There are many considerations that go into deciding to use a particular travel management company, but one should not be an afterthought
By Terri Barton, VP of Corporate Travel, Acendas Travel The corporate travel industry recently took a strong dose of its own medicine as it congregated in San Diego for the 2022 GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) Conference. Unlike sparsely attended events over the prior two years, the halls and meeting
If you have traveled since March 2000, you are well aware that travel as it applies to hotels today is different — there is a changing face of hotel travel. Early in the pandemic, the changes were made out of necessity to ensure health and safety, and deal with a
Want to know a secret? Any travel management company worth its weight in salt can save you time and money. But, that’s not the secret. The secret is that your company can enhance those savings even more through the utilization of online booking tools. If your online booking adoption rate
Our parent BCD Travel last year created a series of four Infographics, providing broader travel risk advice beyond pandemic issues. The full return of business travel was then delayed by the appearance of new variants. Now is the time to once again to remind travelers of the wider risks they
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said: “What gets measured, gets managed.” It is a simple, yet powerful concept we can apply across a wide spectrum of our lives. From a business perspective, companies are constantly enhancing data collection to identify how they may better measure performance, thus
