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Corporate travel is the economy's most honest leading indicator
Companies lie about confidence all the time. Their travel calendars don't, and almost no one is reading them.
6 hrs ago • Luiz Moura
The travel manager is becoming your company's risk officer
The job used to be about booking trips and controlling cost. Volatility rewrote it into something far more strategic, and most companies haven't…
Jul 20 • Luiz Moura
Cutting travel and saving on travel are not the same thing
When budgets tighten, companies reach for the wrong lever, and confuse spending less with destroying value.
Jul 17 • Luiz Moura
What happens to loyalty programs when AI books the trip
Miles and points were built to influence a human decision. What happens to a hundred-billion-dollar system when the human stops choosing?
Jul 16 • Luiz Moura
There is no such thing as the average business traveler
Corporate travel programs are designed for a person who doesn't exist, and everyone who actually travels pays for the fiction.
Jul 15 • Luiz Moura
The best-managed trip is sometimes the one that never happens
The travel industry is built to make trips easier. Almost no one is paid to ask whether the trip should happen at all.
Jul 14 • Luiz Moura
Your travel RFP is measuring the wrong things
The way companies choose a travel partner is built to reward the wrong qualities, and most buyers never question it.
Jul 13 • Luiz Moura
Why business travel bounces back before everyone else does
When companies start flying again, they're telling you something about the economy that the headlines haven't caught up to yet.
Jul 10 • Luiz Moura
The payment problem hiding in plain sight in every travel program
The tools to fix how companies pay for travel have existed for twenty years. The strange part is how few of them use it.
Jul 9 • Luiz Moura
The job everyone thinks AI will erase is about to become the most strategic seat in the company
The corporate travel manager has spent years being told the software is coming for the role. The data says something almost opposite, and the people in…
Jul 8 • Luiz Moura
The next decade of travel won't be won by the biggest network, but by the smartest one
For a century, scale was the moat in travel. The next ten years will reward something else entirely, and most of the industry is built for the wrong…
Jul 6 • Luiz Moura
Sustainability in corporate travel is stuck between intention and invoice
Companies want to travel more responsibly. The data shows they mostly can't, and the reason is not a lack of will. It's that the numbers underneath are…
Jul 3 • Luiz Moura
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