American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) has appointed Julie Avenel as vice president, global business consulting. In her new role, Avenel will lead GBT’s global consultancy division and report to chief commercial officer, Drew Crawley. 

American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) has launched a new sustainability feature in its corporate travel and expense software, Neo. Now, the travel management platform has a carbon emissions filter to help travelers make better-informed booking decisions; this is available for both air and rail tickets.

American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) says it has achieved its goal to offset carbon emissions for employee business travel. The greenhouse gas offset applies to trips taken by GBT staff during all of 2019 and will continue into the future. GBT says it becomes the first global travel management company to offset 100 percent of its own travel emissions and it will next focus on becoming carbon-neutral across all its operations.

As part of the renewed partnership, Lyft and GBT will offer GBT clients a promotional rebate on ground spend. Details here.

Meetings Ground Transportation is a ground transportation platform using exclusive technology from solutions provider miMeetings. Here's how it works.

Abbott replaces Doug Anderson, who is stepping down after three years in the role. More here.

The deal expands American Express Global Business Travel’s footprint into the small and mid-sized client segment in Germany. More here.

American Express Global Business Travel has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a controlling stake in Kanoo Travel, its partner in the Middle East. More here.

Hotel prices are set to rise only modestly in 2020, with some markets even seeing decreases, according to American Express Global Business Travel’s (GBT) newly released Hotel Monitor 2020. Here's an inside look at the latest trends.