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TMC acquisitions, mergers and failures have been a feature of the Covid pandemic that has devastated the business travel industry, but last week’s deals took industry consolidation to a new level.
The first saw American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), a legacy TMC well versed in scaling up through acquisition, announce a binding offer to bring Expedia-owned Egencia into its stable.
GBT has already acquired New York-based Ovation Travel Group this year and, most notably, bought HRG in 2018 in a deal that saw it become the UK’s largest TMC. Also established as the world’s largest TMC, the addition of Egencia – which is thought to be the world’s fourth or fifth largest TMC – gives GBT an incredibly dominant position.