This week Egencia launched Advantage which it describes as a "programme of services designed to support business travellers throughout their entire journey".
Egencia markets Advantage as offering services including airport lounge information and access provision, visa services, airline claims and compensation services and risk management services.
The launch services are likely to be supplemented and candidates include airport parking reservations, VAT refunds and access to medical services.
Some of this should sound familiar. It follows in the tradition of such products as KDS Neo and FCM's Sam.
And, lest you missed it, EY and Concur this week announced a collaborative product to help their respective clients' tax and immigration issues. Business travellers of the two companies' clients will be able to receive real-time analytics minimising risk by detailing how their activity might affect their tax and immigration positions.
Products to service the growing popularity of traveller centricity which is now at the heart of many managed travel programmes seem to be abundant.
And they are capturing interest because dealing with business travellers' so-called end-to-end experience means happier travellers who will make more efficient use of their time when they're having to spend less of it on travel admin.
Their ability to deal with any disruption in the traveller's itinerary also means benefits for corporate travel programmes. If a flight is delayed or cancelled, these tools can organise lounge access to ensure comfort and productivity as well as rebook the flight and, if necessary, do a new hotel booking.
Tools also commonly include provision for ground transport so that a taxi or Uber can be booked or rebooked or airport parking arranged. They are also likely to be able to tell you where your driver will be waiting and what, if any, the waiting time might be.
And they can deal with the other consequences of disrupted flights such as change in information on visas and claims for flights that were booked but not flown.
In other words the value of these concierge services lay not only in creating more flexible and suitable responses for travellers but they also benefit the corporate. There are the obvious points about how features that benefit travellers increase compliance and productivity. However, integrated, end-to-end systems like this inevitably mean more data capture in the same format which will help monitor volumes and, given items like VAT reclaim, increase the amount of money likely to flow back to the company.
The cynical among us might say that there is no such thing as a "win win" — that one side winning means another losing. But on the face of it traveller centric products seem to be yielding benefits for both travellers and corporates.