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Veau says that, other than geopolitical concerns, content fragmentation in air and \u00a0rail remain top of mind for TMC leaders, with some hopes of simplification which is slowly happening.<\/p>\n
Last year was, of course, the year that the Olympic Games came to Paris and with it the inevitable consequences during the busy summer period. \u201cPricing reached a peak during this period, followed by a decrease and now a stabilisation,\u201d says Veau.<\/p>\n
In the air sector, Air France has delayed its proposed GDS surcharge for non-NDC bookings several times, and it is now proposed for 1 July. \u201cThe smoother transition proposed, together with intermediary surcharge, is certainly the right path for Air France,\u201d says Veau.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the planned merger of American Express Global Business Travel and CWT is bringing opportunities for other TMCs in the French market. \u201cThe fact this is a long and uncertain process helps global competitors \u2013 particularly BCD who is even able to be more selective with the\u00a0new clients it brings on \u2013 as well as independent TMCs aiming to reinforce their network partnerships to be a real alternative to Amex GBT,\u201d says Veau.<\/p>\n
AI is also a key opportunity for TMCs. \u201cArtificial intelligence is high up in the news, events and in webinars. Practically, TMC owners are more in the exploration phase, trying to see more concretely the way it could affect their teams and clients. The most popular achievements are either in client interaction for some simple interactions, internal information sharing instead of an intranet and for learning development platforms\u201d says Veau.<\/p>\n
In terms of the economy, France\u2019s GDP was up 1.1% in 2024 but is expected to fall to 0.6% in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ARTICLE CONTINUES… Veau says that, other than geopolitical concerns, content fragmentation in air and \u00a0rail remain top of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[743,2000,299,126,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-208243","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-743","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114733929410548649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}