Flight Centre Travel Group

FCM Travel, the flagship large market specialists that has a presence in over 90 countries across the world, is now Flight Centre Travel Group’s (ASX:FLT) largest brand globally when it comes to Total Transaction Value (TTV).

The bleisure trend is showing no signs of coming in for landing as corporates around the world spend more nights away on business trips, according to new statistics released by Flight Centre Corporate.

Business travel can take a toll on employees’ physical and mental health, yet a recent State of the Market Survey from Flight Centre Travel Group reveals that only 36% of companies consider traveller wellbeing a top priority.

In the first of its kind, a landmark global State of the Market* Survey for Flight Centre Corporate has revealed that 40 per cent of businesses plan to increase their travel in FY25 (July to June), while 42 per cent of customers intend to increase their travel spend versus last year.

FCM Travel, the flagship corporate travel division of Flight Centre Travel Group, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), has made it to two of Great Place To Work’s Best Workplaces lists. 

Asia has continued to show a double-digit recovery for the first quarter of FY24 in corporate travel. Southeast Asia and India showed a strong performance with continued gains in both market share and profits

FCM Meetings & Events (FCM M&E), the long-standing specialists in the sector  and flagship division of the Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), has announced a global expansion of  the business.

FCM Travel, one of the world’s largest travel management companies, has expanded its footprints into China’s Greater Bay Area (GBA) with a new office and has doubled the size of its team to support its operations in Guangzhou.

Business travel is continuing its growth, with a projected 188 per cent rise in the next five years. Alongside this trend, the costs associated with doing business, including travel, have also grown.

Q1-2023 has seen the positive momentum of H2-2022 continue in both business and leisure travel with demand across the world forecast to be at 85.5* per cent of 2019 levels this year, according to FCM Consulting’s latest Global Trends Report. 

This year has been one of change and disruption, with businesses balancing worker shortages and hybrid working arrangements amid a strong travel spend bounceback.

Sort all your baggage disruption problems with these tips on packing from Tom Walley, global managing director, Corporate Traveller.

New data from Australia’s leading travel management provider for SMEs has revealed businesses are eager to return to the skies, with a 21 per cent increase in domestic and international flight bookings since early February

Flight Centre Travel Group’s (FCTG) global procurement network has appointed Yon Abad to the role of vice president, corporate supplier relationships and distribution platforms. Based in the US, the highly respected hotel executive brings to the position more than 15-years’ experience in global corporate travel, as well as hospitality contracting, distribution and technology. Abad joins […]

Monster of the travel agency industry Flight Centre Travel Group (FCTG), has decided to take on B2B accommodation providers, such as Hotelbeds and Bedbank, with the creation of its new wholesale division The Travel Junction. The Travel Junction has been created to act as an intermediary linking travel sellers outside of the traditional Flight Centre […]

YES Bank has partnered with Travel Money, the foreign exchange brand of FCM Travel, to provide highly secure digital payment solutions coupled with a completely seamless experience to customers while travelling abroad. This was revealed by Ritesh Pai, chief digital officer at YES Bank. “As a bank, we always focus on future-ready concepts and strategies […]

FCM Travel Solutions has created Marketplace, a virtual gateway to its extensive proprietary and specially-negotiated air fares, hotel rates, car rental and rail booking options. The move underpins FCM’s approach to giving customers access to the widest choice of business travel content via multi-channel online and offline sources from across its global network. A key […]

The hotel management company, formerly known as BHMA Hotels & Resorts, has rebranded to Cross Hotels and Resorts, marking the successful transition into the global Flight Centre Travel Group business. Taking advantage of its position as one of the APAC’s most successful ad respected hospitality firms – notably making the top three bracket of HVS […]

The US-based student and youth travel booking website StudentUniverse has announced the brand’s continued global growth as it now launches in the Australian market. In a bid to expand its online presence to a global audience, the new StudentUniverse Australia platform will make travel for students and youths even easier as the brand strives to […]

Flight Centre has announced today that it will be pushing the growth of a major part of its business by overhauling and updating its Student Flight product in Australia. The new brand, dubbed Universal Traveller, will be aimed travellers at the 18-35 demographic which will offer unique products and exclusive offers to a broader range […]