Travel technology provider eco.mio is piloting an AI-powered ‘Recommendation Engine’ designed to improve compliance with corporate travel policy and streamline the booking process.
The booking tool browser plug-in “simplifies the booking process by surfacing only the most relevant, policy-aligned choices”, said the company.
Tailored to a corporate’s travel policy and preferred partners, the Recommendation Engine is currently being piloted by a number of corporates and is expected to be made widely available early in 2026. Early testing has delivered “significantly shorter booking times, major cost optimisation, and improved traveller satisfaction,” said the company.
The tool works with most major online booking tools, including Concur, Cytric, Neo, Egencia and Onesto, and will also be available in platforms such as Teams and Slack in due course.
The Recommendation Engine is the first tool from eco.mio that sits outside its Impact Suite of sustainability-focused nudging and incentive tools, expanding its offering beyond the environmental impact of business travel.
Eco.mio CEO Kati Riederer said that after consulting customers on their biggest booking challenges at the start of the year, the company began developing the tool to help travellers navigate increasingly complex booking environments that deliver an abundance of options that can lead to “decision fatigue, missed savings and delayed bookings”.
"We've reached a point where adding more data doesn't help travellers decide better – it slows them down,” said Riederer. “The future is about guidance, not overload. With the Recommendation Engine, we turn information into intelligence, helping companies drive better travel decisions effortlessly."
Although not part of it suite of sustainability tools, the Recommendation Engine will help keep travellers in policy and deliver emissions reductions where a travel programme is designed to do so, noted Riederer.