GTI Travel

What GTI Travel does

GTI Travel is a privately held, family-owned corporate travel management company headquartered in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, founded in 1972 and operating continuously under the same family ownership for over five decades. The company delivers end-to-end business travel services to more than 500 corporate clients across the United States, including policy development, booking, expense tracking, supplier consolidation, vendor contract negotiations, and ongoing account management. GTI packages its offering as a structured three-step framework: travel spend optimization, tailored policy implementation, and continuous monitoring with monthly value reports and quarterly expense reviews.

The core technology foundation is SAP Concur, which GTI uses as the online booking, policy compliance, and expense reporting platform for its clients, supplemented by an iBank client financial portal. The company does not build proprietary software; its differentiation rests on the human advisory layer — dedicated account managers and travel counselors — layered over Concur's booking infrastructure. Notable technical features leveraged include map-based air booking, fare grids, property photographs, trip templates, smart reminders, and Concur Mobile for iOS, Android, and Blackberry, along with pre-built audit rules that enforce corporate travel policies.

GTI's business model is a hybrid of transaction-based commissions from airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, and rail suppliers, combined with managed services fees for policy consulting, spend analysis, and account management. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and is structured as customized, multi-year contracts calibrated to client size and travel volume. The company reaches customers primarily through direct account management and word-of-mouth referrals, and extends its service reach globally through its strategic affiliation with Travel Leaders (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel), an arrangement established in 1994 and expanded in 1997 with the formation of The Leaders Group consortium, which provides access to over 4,000 travel service locations across 140 countries.

Name

GTI Travel

Legal name

GTI Travel

Website

https://gtitravel.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1972

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

GTI Travel is a family-owned corporate travel management company founded in 1972, serving 500+ US corporate clients with policy development, booking, expense tracking, and account management, leveraging SAP Concur technology and the Travel Leaders network for global reach.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Corporate Travel Management

NAICS

Travel Agencies (561510)

SIC

Transportation Services (4700)

akta.pro primary industry

Online/Hybrid Corporate Travel Agencies (Self-Booking + Support) (THAKACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Reporting, Analytics & Program Optimization (BI/Benchmarking) (THAKAMAM)

Keywords

• Corporate travel management
• Business travel services
• Travel policy development
• Travel expense management
• Corporate travel agency

Headquarters

HQ city

Jenkintown

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Revenue model

1. Travel Agency Services: GTI Travel generates revenue through commissions and service fees from airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, and other travel suppliers. As a travel management company, they earn revenue from booking transactions and ongoing account management services for corporate clients.
2. Corporate Travel Management Consulting: Revenue from providing customized travel policy development, spend analysis, vendor contract negotiations, and ongoing account management services for corporate clients.
3. Supplier Consolidations and National Purchasing: Through the Travel Leaders network, GTI leverages collective purchasing power to negotiate preferred rates with suppliers, generating value through volume-based arrangements.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

GTI Travel is a corporate travel management company that books, manages, and optimizes business travel for U.S. companies. The firm combines personalized travel advisor service with the SAP Concur online booking platform and Travel Leaders network purchasing power to deliver policy-compliant air, hotel, rental car, and rail reservations, expense tracking, vendor negotiations, and customized travel policy development.

Product overview

GTI Travel operates as a corporate travel management company offering a unified service platform that combines personalized travel agency expertise with technology solutions. The core offering is Corporate Travel Management Solutions, supported by Concur Online Booking for reservations and policy compliance, Travel Spend Management Programs for cost optimization, Customized Travel Policy Development for tailored corporate policies, and Account Management Services for ongoing support and contract negotiations. The company leverages its partnership with Travel Leaders (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel) to provide enterprise-level technology while maintaining boutique-style personalized service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Corporate Travel Management Solutions
• Travel Spend Management Programs
• Customized Travel Policy Development
• Account Management Services

Quantifiable outcome

• 10-15% average savings on business travel costs
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration2 records

Feature4 records

Partnerships

Three partnerships are on record, tiered core.

• The Leaders GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1997In 1997, the relationship expanded and The Leaders Group was formed with select members of the Travel Leaders network, including GTI. This consortium of individual entrepreneurs enables shared resources, collective purchasing power, and competitive positioning while maintaining independent operations.
• Travel Leaders (formerly Carlson Wagonlit Travel)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 1994In 1994, GTI Travel entered into a strategic partnership with Carlson Wagonlit Travel (now Travel Leaders) to expand resources and offer clients greater value and savings. This partnership enables GTI to leverage the extensive network resources while maintaining personalized service.
• SAP ConcurcoreTechnology or IntegrationGTI Travel integrates SAP Concur's online booking and expense management platform into their service offerings. Concur provides the technology infrastructure for corporate travel booking, policy enforcement, and expense tracking that GTI delivers to clients.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Altour: Boutique corporate travel management firm offering personalized service and technology-enabled booking to mid-market and enterprise clients, comparable in positioning to GTI's boutique-plus-network model.
• World Travel Inc. US-based corporate travel management agency serving mid-market clients with Concur-integrated booking and customized account management, closely analogous to GTI's service profile.
• Tzell Travel Group: Affiliate within the Travel Leaders Network (the same parent consortium as GTI) operating as a corporate travel agency, making it both a peer and a same-network competitor for mid-market accounts.
• Travel and Transport: Mid-market corporate travel agency providing customized travel management, policy development, and reporting to US businesses, overlapping directly with GTI's core service offering and customer segment.
• Direct Travel: US-focused mid-market corporate travel management company serving similar size-tier clients with customized account management, supplier consolidation, and Concur-based technology — a direct competitive analog to GTI.
• FROSCH: Boutique corporate travel management company offering high-touch service to mid-market and enterprise clients, closely mirroring GTI's positioning as a relationship-led TMC with global network access.

Broad incumbents

• American Express Global Business Travel: Large-scale global TMC offering corporate booking, expense, and consulting services across enterprise clients; competes with GTI for any client seeking broader geographic coverage and integrated payments.
• BCD Travel: Global corporate travel management incumbent serving multinational enterprises with end-to-end booking, expense, and reporting capabilities, representing the larger competitor GTI faces when scaling up-market.
• CWT: Global corporate travel management incumbent (formerly Carlson Wagonlit — the same legacy entity that GTI's Travel Leaders partner traces back to), competing for enterprise TMC mandates with broader scale.

Emerging players

• Corporate Travel Management (CTM): Publicly listed corporate travel management company that has rapidly grown through acquisitions in the US mid-market, directly overlapping GTI's target customer base and competitive set.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/GTICorpTravel
• Facebookfacebook.com/GTICorporateTravel
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/gti-corporate-travel

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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