UVET AMERICAN EXPRESS GLOBAL BUSINESS TRAVEL

MAIN INDUSTRY SECTORS OF CLIENTS
Construction, Defence and aerospace, Engineering, Financial and professional services, Food, drink and tobacco, Government and public sector, Healthcare and pharmaceutical, Information technology, Manufacturing, Media and entertainment, Mining, Music and film touring, Oil and gas, Retail, Shipping and fisheries, Sport, Telecoms and postal services, Transport sector and logistics, Utilities

ADDITIONAL SERVICES OFFERED
Consultancy, Group travel, Incentives, Meetings and events, Passport and visa services, sustainability programmes, Traveller wellbeing services, Venue sourcing, VIP travel

NETWORK, CONSORTIUM & ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS
AFTM, The BTA, DBTA, DRV, FBTA, GBTA, GEBTA, ITM, NBTA, SBTA, VDR, NATM (Netherlands), BATM (Belgium), SRV (Switzerland), EU Travel Tech

KEY PEOPLE
Luca Patanè, president, UVET GBT
Francesco Palleschi, chief operating officer, Uvet GBT
Massimiliano Brunelli, head of supplier relations, Uvet GBT
Paul Abbott, CEO, Amex GBT
Drew Crawley, president, Amex GBT
Karen Williams, CFO, Amex GBT
Jason Geall, EVP, global SME, Amex GBT
David Reimer, EVP, global multinational, Amex GBT

FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT STAFF
1,000 (UVET, Italy); 19,000 (Amex GBT, globally)

ESG & CSR ACCREDITATIONS
CDP participation, Committed to net zero by 2050, EcoVadis Platinum, ISO 14000 series certification, SBTI commitment

DEI ACCREDITATIONS & POLICIES
Corriere della Sera, Italy’s Best Employers, Best Workplaces for Women or similar, Equal pay policy, Flexible working policy, Recruitment and selection policy

GDS PARTNERS
Amadeus, Sabre, Travelport

ONLINE BOOKING TOOLS
BizTravel, Argo, Concur, Cytric, GetThere, NEO/KDS, Serko, Egencia

EXPENSE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Certify, Concur, Proprietary, Neo, Neo1 (proprietary spend management tool). Egencia offers expense API to integrate with third-party tools

OTHER TECHNOLOGY (I=in-house, T=third-party)
Air reshopping I,T, Auditing I,T, Business intelligence I, Data visualisation I,T, Disruption management I, Hotel reshopping I, Meetings management I,T, Mobile booking app I, Mobile itinerary app I, Peer benchmarking I, Personalised trip recommendations I, Pre-trip approval I,T, Profile management I, Quality assurance I, Sustainability reporting I,T, Traveller tracking I, Travel risk management T, Unused ticket management I

OTHER TECHNOLOGY & TOOLS
Amex GBT Egencia configurable digital travel platform with personalised experience; Virtual Payment Expert; Meetings Express: interface for sourcing small/simple meetings; Meetings Marketplace: curated collection of M&E solutions

TECHNOLOGY STRATEGY
Build proprietary technology in-house, hire third-party developers, act as partner/reseller for other technology providers, acquire third-party developers of technology

NDC CONTENT
Direct connects, GDS, aggregators (Accelya, Travelfusion). All aggregators & GDSs are connected to the same airline API

BIGGEST INNOVATION OF 2023
Uvet GBT became partner of Air France-KLM SAF Corporate programme