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Concur Travel president Charlie Sultan sat down with BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker during the recent Global Business Travel Association convention in San Diego to detail some features the booking tools will have as well as his larger vision of building a "platform of the future."  
For those languishing on preorder lists for the company’s coveted electric truck and SUV, obsessing online together is sweet torture.
Elizabeth and Brian Hace followed the electric vehicle upstart Rivian for years before the Minnesota couple finally placed two orders in late 2020: one for the R1T pickup truck, and the other for an R1S SUV. The Haces are environmentally conscious and also like big vehicles, so they were content to wait for Rivian to produce the country’s first electric pickup, driving 20-year-old cars rather than opting for, say, a Tesla.
For those languishing on preorder lists for the company’s coveted electric truck and SUV, obsessing online together is sweet torture.
More travel executives get their mission-critical industry news from Skift than any other source on the planet.Tell me more Open booking, where employees can book outside the company’s official travel program, had been steadily growing. Part of the momentum is still down to more sophisticated technology, so direct bookings can be captured, with the likes of TripLink, part of travel and expense platform SAP Concur, and Traxo, playing a part. However, the pandemic may be starting to impact this as Covid-19 cases still spiral in some destinations. Now, SAP Concur is exerting more control, by a...