Agiito, alongside their new owners Clarity Business Travel, surveyed their customers about what challenges they expected travel category managers to face in 2024. They found the top answer, by some distance, was ‘balancing traveller behaviour and policy’, followed by ‘economic conditions’.  So, with the upcoming rail fare increase on 3 March 2024, which will see […]

PA Life talked to Paul Casement, Director of Brighter Events, about bringing the best of event management together with event travel services. Sounds like a marriage made in heaven! Brighter Events is the full meeting and events agency division of Clarity Business Travel which provides travel management services for the events sector. How and when […]

Following the final successful audit in November 2023, Agiito (now part of Clarity Business Travel) received the ISO 20121 certification for sustainable meetings and events. As part of Agiito’s ongoing strategy to achieve best-practice levels of efficiency and performance, Agiito first started working towards the standard in March 2022 by making travel, meetings and events […]

TMCs like Agiito are key in helping PAs drive sustainable behaviours in business travel within their organisations. Dana Moore and Lone Konradsen from Agiito discuss how this can be put to practice. Booking in advance. Switching from road to rail. Choosing hotels with valid green credentials. All great examples of business travellers ‘doing the right […]

Agiito, one of the UK’s most respected corporate travel and event management companies, has been acquired by Clarity Business Travel. The new owner is the business travel and events division of the Portman Travel Group. The Agiito acquisition puts a new executive team in place. The much-anticipated deal, announced in August, marks a significant move […]

Negotiating venue find and event contracts can be overwhelming, especially if you’re not well-versed in the nuances of contracts. They can come laden with jargon and unfavourable terms that can leave you feeling uncertain about the value you’re getting or stuck with terms you didn’t fully understand. It’s moments like these when you wish you […]

In an industry first, Agiito have formed a partnership with API developer, TravelTime, to empower meeting bookers with travel time information during the venue selection process. With an established portfolio in the property and recruitment sectors, TravelTime are now entering the business travel sector in partnership with Agiito. The partnership will see Agiito’s meeting bookers […]

Neal Poole, Director of Marketing at Agiito, shares his views on what business travel really is. When they hear the words ‘business travel,’ Joe Public typically visualises seat 1A, first-class, high-end hotels and champagne (the Instagram view). But as industry professionals know, the truth behind this misconception can be vastly different. It can be called […]

Industry leaders, Agiito, have taken the next steps to offer meeting bookers live availability technology by rolling this functionality out with their customer, Royal Mail Group. Agiito announced in August that they were launching their live availability solution for their meetings and events customers. This enables bookers to view rates and venue availability in real-time, […]

Agiito has announced that, for the first time, its travel, meetings and events solution will feature on the RM6217 Crown Commercial Service (CCS) framework.  Out of all the suppliers on the framework, Agiito is the only travel management company (TMC) to be awarded a place on two Lots: Lot 1 (UK travel booking solutions) and Lot 4 (venue-finding and events).  These two ‘Lots’ enables central government, wider public sector and third sector organisations access to fully managed, online and offline travel booking solutions covering UK and international rail and […]

By Agiito As part of our commitment to responsible business travel, Agiito has collectively offset 3,500 tons of CO2 for customers across the energy, care and housing sectors in the last six months. Working with Trees4Travel, we’ve enabled one customer to offset three years’ worth of historical trips so they can achieve their first ‘Corporate […]

By Agiito Building an ever-closer relationship to understand Execs’ own anxieties and concerns has always been fundamental to an EA’s role. But, as new risks emerge and wellbeing becomes more important, the role has been transformed to be a more perceptive, trusted and pre-emptive planner and researcher. The role has become more aligned to knowing […]

By Agiito We’ve always been more than a TMC. Formerly, Capita Travel and Events and NYS, we are now ‘Agiito’: a single brand that unites our extensive experience, people, values, personality and culture. We’ve started a new chapter of our story. We’re the same award-winning company, the same creative thinkers and the same no-messing problem […]