• Actionable Insights: New dashboard offers real-time, personalized emissions reduction strategies tailored to corporate travel behavior.
• Business-Aligned Sustainability: Integrates cost and carbon impact, helping companies align ESG goals with financial performance.
• Seamless Implementation: Recommendations are linked directly to travel policy settings for swift, self-service adoption by travel managers.

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has launched a new data-driven sustainability recommendations feature for its Egencia platform, offering clients a first-of-its-kind solution to help reduce their corporate travel carbon footprint through actionable insights.

Designed in response to direct feedback from corporate travel managers, the tool provides customized guidance to reduce emissions while managing travel costs. Recommendations are based on actual travel data and offer a clear path to implementing more sustainable practices.

“We understand companies are concerned about managing all impacts of their travel,” said John Sturino, SVP of Product and Engineering at Amex GBT. “Our integration of personalized recommendations will give travel managers greater control of the environmental impact of their travel program and empower them to make data-informed decisions that can drive progress towards achieving their company’s sustainability goals.”

The tool offers insights such as:

• Air vs. rail: Identifies when rail is a feasible, lower-emission alternative to air travel.
• Carbon-efficient flights: Flags flights that emit less CO₂ than average for easier comparison.
• Cabin class guidance: Suggests lower-emission seating options based on flight length.
• SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) insights: Offers visibility into SAF lifecycle reductions through integration with the Avelia platform.

All recommendations are delivered through a newly integrated sustainability dashboard within the travel manager’s analytics studio, with direct policy-setting capabilities for immediate action.

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“By providing tailored, data-driven policy recommendations, we’re helping travel managers bridge the gap between where they are today on their sustainability journey and what they want to achieve tomorrow,” said Nora Lovell Marchant, VP of Global Sustainability at Amex GBT. “We put sustainability solutions front and center.”

This launch builds on Amex GBT’s earlier rollout of a carbon pricing model that monetizes emissions as part of its broader strategy to embed sustainability into corporate travel.

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