How AI assistants are quietly taking over corporate travel

Talk to anyone running corporate travel this year and the same complaints come up. Too many approvals. Systems that don’t talk to each other. An expense report that should take 10 minutes and somehow consumes 45.

What’s changed is who does the work. AI assistants have quietly taken over a chunk of the travel management workflow — not with a big rollout, but by absorbing the repetitive, rules-based tasks that used to swallow a Tuesday afternoon. It’s happening in finance teams, in operations...