Business Travel Executive, March 2020

40 Business Travel Executive askBTE com March 2020 TF TECH FILES S abre Corporation has signed an agreement with Accor the global hospitality company to create what an announcement calls the first unified central reservation and property platform for the hospitality industry In collaboration with Accor Sabre intends to develop a full service property management capability and enhance its existing central reservation and limited service property management systems The new unified cloud based platform will be built for and available to hoteliers across all property classes and geographic regions In this context according to the announcement Accor would be Sabres newest enterprise hospitality customer adopting Sabres SynXis Central Reservation System and ultimately the new global technology platform for all its hospitality brands and geographies TripActions and Lufthansa Group Form Strategic Partnership T ripActions the travel management company and Lufthansa Group have announced a strategic partnership As part of the deal Lufthansa Group acquired a minority stake in TripActions in December through its digital business unit Lufthansa Innovation Hub making Lufthansa Group the companys first strategic investor The announcement follows the two companies strategic NDC partnership announcement last November TripActions founded in 2015 uses AI and machine learning technologies to provide a user friendly mobile customer experience and personalized servicing to businesses and their employees ARC Buys Majority Stake in NuTravel A irlines Reporting Corp has acquired a majority interest in nuTravel a developer of applications that provide airlines with online retailing solutions NuTravel will become an independent subsidiary of ARC The acquisition according to an announcement by the companies will enable ARC to accelerate its offerings of feature rich omnichannel retailing solutions to airlines travel agencies and corporate travelers The investment in nuTravel continues ARCs expansion of solutions for the end to end air travel journey combining its expertise with those of Blockskye and Traxo in which ARC also recently invested Emburse Launches Payment Cards For Abacus Expense Management E mburse the expense management and accounts payable company has launched Emburse Cards for Abacus real time expense management Abacus is one of the six expense management and payments brands which also included Captio Certify Chrome River Nexonia and Tallie that were brought together to form Emburse Emburse Cards offer virtual and physical corporate card solutions that give both employees and non employees a user friendly way to make purchases while allowing organizations to enforce travel and expense policies as the transaction occurs Integrating Emburse Cards into Abacus according to an announcement from the company gives administrators the ability to easily issue and manage corporate cards within their real time expense management solution Sabre and Accor to Develop New Global Hospitality Platform