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Fox World Travel has introduced Fox Connect, a new AI-powered platform designed to simplify the way companies book, manage and track business travel. Built as a central hub for everything from real-time data and reporting to personalized communications, the tool aims to make the travel management process more efficient for both travelers and managers.

Fox World Travel has introduced Fox Connect, a new “user-friendly” AI platform that optimizes corporate travel management. Fox Connect, according to an announcement, simplifies essential services like reporting, trip management and business intelligence for travel managers and travelers.

Fox World Travel, a TMC, announced the promotion of George Kalka to the position of senior vice president of business travel. In this role, said the announcement. he will continue to lead the global sales, client solutions and operational teams while still contributing significantly to Fox’s strategic growth initiatives.

Katharine Radovich, director of sales enablement and operations for Fox World Travel’s business travel team, has been recognized among WINiT’s 2024 Top 50 honorees, which highlight women in the business travel agency by the Global Business Travel Association.

As the number of companies providing technology and tools to the business travel industry swells and travel buyers' reliance on those tools to operate comprehensive but cost-efficient travel management programmes increases, so too has the complexity of selecting a travel management company partner who can accommodate the unique technical needs of corporate clients.

ravel buyer chatter at industry conferences over the past several months has revealed a healthy appetite for change and innovation with their travel management service provider, but the path to and market for that change is as difficult as ever.

The GBTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), has announced the 2024 WINiT Top 50, celebrating the women in business travel who are reinventing themselves and their workplaces by creating momentum that reaches beyond their communities and fields.

Many of us have been there: You start out planning a trip full of excitement, only to deflate with each flight search. You notice that the flight prices are soaring higher and higher and that excitement you initially felt has transformed into exasperation at the price tag.

Wisconsin-based Fox World Travel is in the second of five phases of building an artificial intelligence-augmented traveler experience designed to eventually deliver AI-powered ticketing and self-service as a conversation. Under a mantra of “fast, small steps,” the travel management company thus far has…

Wisconsin-based Fox World Travel (No. 32 on Travel Weekly's Power List) has introduced Colby AI, an AI assistant for its travel advisors.

Similar to the traditional soft dollars made available for consulting support and the like, travel management company “tech credits” help clients adopt new technologies, customize products and services, and connect with third-party providers. They let TMCs tailor proposals, compete without offering significant rebates and strengthen…