BCD Travel accelerates AI strategy with strategic investment in corporate travel AI leader AMGINE

BCD Travel today announced a strategic investment in AMGINE, corporate travel’s trusted AI automation platform. The investment accelerates BCD’s focus on delivering AI-powered solutions to enhance the traveler experience, improve service delivery and drive greater value for corporate travel programs.

 With the investment, BCD and AMGINE also expand an existing partnership that has generated successful AI initiatives in group-air management, email automation and other areas across BCD.

This is an exciting development that fits perfectly with our Open by Design philosophy, where we combine BCD’s proprietary technology and unmatched service with an ecosystem of best-in-class partners to give clients flexibility, choice and access to leading innovation. Travel buyers increasingly expect AI to improve efficiency, service quality and the traveler experience. In partnering even more closely with AMGINE, including aligning our technology roadmaps, we’re moving faster to produce meaningful and visible results for travel programs of all types

Stephan Baars, CEO of BCD

 BCD’s AI strategy combines three approaches: building AI capabilities into the Tripsource platform, integrating specialized AI solutions from trusted partners such as AMGINE, and giving customers access to third-party AI tools they can incorporate into their travel programs. This balanced approach allows us to innovate quickly while delivering flexibility, choice and business value for our customers.

 An early adopter of AI in corporate travel, BCD has been applying AI across its technology and service environment for years, including generative AI and increasingly agentic AI to execute complex workflows autonomously. The strategic partnership with AMGINE paves the way for further innovation, with a strong focus on solutions that bring tangible value to travel program leaders and their travelers.

In the past year, we've seen incredible productivity benefits from the AMGINE AI platform in areas such as group booking, where we’ve serviced hundreds of group air programs and parsed thousands of emails so agents can focus on the experience they deliver to travelers. Because AMGINE’s technology has delivered proven results, we’re ready to scale and extend that value to additional areas of the operation across the world

Yannis Karmis, executive vice president of Product Planning & Development at BCD

The future of corporate travel won't be built by replacing existing technology; it will come from connecting the best technologies together. Our expanded partnership with BCD demonstrates what's possible when AI is integrated into proven travel platforms, creating smarter experiences for travelers while helping travel teams operate faster, more efficiently, and at greater scale

Greg Apple, CEO of AMGINE