Traxo, a travel technology company that provides visibility into corporate travel bookings, announced a partnership with CWT, the travel management company (TMC), to provide a solution to CWT’s clients that automatically captures out-of-channel booking data and brings it back into the travel management company’s systems.

To achieve this goal, CWT is using Filter technology patented by Traxo, which, according to the announcement, is already used by corporations that collectively spend more than a billion dollars a year worldwide on travel. Charlie Sullivan, vice president – product management at CWT, said the company prides itself on delivering some of the most comprehensive and competitive corporate travel content, technology, tools and service to its customers globally, but recognizes there is some activity booked outside its channels.

Filling this data gap, said Sullivan, is important for a number of reasons, including understanding program leakage, enhanced safety and security information and accurately calculating carbon emissions. The
partnership with Traxo, he said, solves these issues.

Andres Fabris, CEO of Traxo, said that historically when bookings were made “off channel,” they were invisible, and it was impossible for the reporting tools and systems typically used by corporate travel managers to know about them. This is no longer the case, he said, as Traxo’s solution automatically detects, aggregates and brings visibility to travel bookings, changes and cancellation in real time from any source across the globe.

CWT said it is in active discussions with multiple clients to bring on a pilot group of users to the new Traxo feature.