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- A new personalized demo experience
- A new legal entity in Italy: Seamless invoicing and enhanced accounting
- Introducing Trips: All bookings in one place
- Streamlined approval workflows
- Automatic date amendments
- Approver section now available in the mobile app
- Kiton: Structured travel for a global luxury brand
- Expo Events Consulting: Reducing booking time by 3–5 times with Roundtrip
- Ocrim: Saving 10–15% on business travel
- Market presence
Sergiu Les
Managing Director CTM
Sergiu Les, Managing Director of Roundtrip: “We exist for teams whose travel needs are scaling with their business. Our mission is to help them manage business travel as a structured, transparent, and reliable part of how they operate. We do that by combining technology with real human expertise — giving companies the visibility, structure, and control to travel with confidence. Every quarter, that combination gets stronger. This digest is how we share that progress — openly and practically, with the same transparency and structure we bring to the way business trips are managed.”
Product updates
A new personalized demo experience
Getting a demo tailored to your organization is now simpler and more focused. Rather than sitting through a full platform walkthrough, this session starts with understanding how your business currently manages travel — from approval workflows and payment processes to reporting needs and operational pain points — and covers only the capabilities relevant to your requirements.
What’s new
- A dedicated demo-request journey designed around your organization’s specific priorities.
- A discovery conversation before the demonstration, focused on your workflows and pain points.
- A session covering only the features relevant to your travel management needs.
Schedule a personalized session to see how Roundtrip fits your organization’s travel management needs.
A new legal entity in Italy: Seamless invoicing and enhanced accounting
In the second quarter of 2026, we expanded Roundtrip’s presence in Italy with the launch of Emerging Travel Italy S.r.l. — a step that brings us closer to our local partners and ensures full compliance with local tax requirements.
What’s new for our Italian partners:
- Electronic invoicing via SDI: fully compliant with Italian fiscal regulations.
- Payments through an Italian bank: faster, safer, and more reliable transactions.
- VAT applied under Italian rules: including special conditions for travel agencies on hotels, transfers, car rentals, and upsells, and standard rules for air and train tickets.
- Clear, transparent accounting: simplified reporting and full regulatory compliance.
- New contracting entity: Emerging Travel Italy S.r.l.
For details, check your personal account or contact your Account Manager.
Introducing Trips: All bookings in one place
Planning and managing business trips is now more straightforward. With flights, hotels, transfers, rail, and car rentals brought together into a single itinerary, every element of a journey is organized in one place — giving you greater visibility over business trips and your employees a clearer travel experience.
What’s new
- View all trip elements — flights, hotels, transfers, rail, and car rentals — in one itinerary.
- Gain greater visibility over business trips across your organization.
- Give employees a clearer, more organized travel experience.
Explore Trips in your Roundtrip account.
Streamlined approval workflows
As your travel programme grows, staying in control doesn’t have to mean more admin. Flexible approval rules give your organization greater visibility and control as travel programmes grow, without adding complexity to the process.
What’s new
- Configure approval rules by budget, hotel category, flight cost, department, or destination.
- Travelers can submit out-of-policy requests directly during booking.
- Improve visibility across the approval process.
- Support more consistent travel policy compliance.
Note: To enable booking approval, please contact your Account Manager or our support team. For more information on setting up and using this feature, please refer to the “Knowledge base.”
Automatic date amendments
Managing booking changes is now faster and more flexible. With automatic date amendments, you can now update names and shorten or prolong a stay directly in your account — reducing manual requests and helping you respond to travel changes more efficiently.
What’s new
- Make changes directly from the booking card in the “Trips” tab.
- Shorten or extend hotel stays without contacting support.
- Reduce waiting time and avoid unnecessary rebookings.
Visit the Knowledge Base for a full step-by-step guide.
Approver section now available in the mobile app
Business travel approvals no longer have to wait until you’re back at your desk. The Approver section is now available in the Roundtrip mobile app, allowing you to review and approve travel requests wherever you are.
What’s new
- Review travel requests directly from the mobile app.
- Access full booking details before making a decision.
- Approve or reject requests with just a few taps.
- Keep bookings moving while maintaining visibility and control.
Download the app and start approving travel on the go.
Customer success stories
Viviana Urciuoli
Travel Manager at Kiton
Kiton: Structured travel for a global luxury brand
Kiton is a global luxury brand with teams and clients traveling frequently across international locations — often on short notice. Before Roundtrip, employees booked independently across scattered channels, leading to limited visibility over expenses, difficulty tracking invoices, and reduced control over workflows.
After onboarding, Kiton centralized all travel management into a single interface, with prepayment options protecting employees’ card limits, a “Favorites” feature for recurring destinations, and centralized invoice storage accessible at any time. The result: 30–40% reduction in booking and administrative time.
“The system is very useful, efficient, and centralized. It has significantly optimized our workflow and saved time.” — Viviana Urciuoli, Travel Manager at Kiton.
Expo Events Consulting: Reducing booking time by 3–5 times with Roundtrip
Expo Event Consulting manages international travel for teams delivering exhibitions and corporate events across the Middle East and Asia. The complexity of coordinating flights, hotels, and logistics across multiple regions simultaneously became unmanageable, leading the company to pause international travel entirely.
After switching to Roundtrip, booking time dropped by 3–5 times, invoices and closing documents became available instantly, and full visibility across all trips reduced operational risk. During one international exhibition, a hotel issue was resolved within hours through direct coordination — keeping the team on schedule.
Chiara Zovadelli
Travel Manager at Ocrim
Ocrim: Saving 10–15% on business travel
Ocrim’s 270 employees travel worldwide for client visits, machinery installations, and trade shows, including long-term projects. Before Roundtrip, travel was managed through OTAs, agencies, and direct hotel websites, making coordination time-consuming and visibility on expenses limited.
With Roundtrip, search and booking became dramatically faster, grouped services (hotels, transfers, car rentals) clarified complex itineraries, and 24/7 support proved its value in real situations, including a last-minute hotel near Rome airport resolved within minutes late at night. Ocrim now saves 10–15% on corporate rates compared to previous booking methods.
“It’s not just a platform but a real work companion,with people ready to help at every stage of the job.” — Chiara Zovadelli, Travel Manager at Ocrim.
Market presence
In the second quarter of 2026, the Roundtrip team engaged with corporate travel professionals at key industry events across Europe and Central Asia.
GBTA Italy
The GBTA Italy Roadshow continues to bring business travel professionals together, and as proud event sponsors, Roundtrip joined the recent stop in Padua. Learn our key takeaways from the event on our LinkedIn channel.
Balkan eCommerce Summit
Roundtrip was proud to support the Balkan eCommerce Summit as a community partner. As a company focused on making business travel smoother through automation and streamlined workflows, it was inspiring to exchange ideas with professionals exploring the future of digital transformation.
VDW — Association of German Economy in Kazakhstan
Roundtrip took part in the official visit of the Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Matthias Kiesler, to Shymkent, organized recently in cooperation with VDW – Association of German Economy in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The program focused on gaining first-hand insights into the region’s investment potential and the operating environment for foreign companies.
And this was only part of a busy quarter. Alongside these exhibitions, the Roundtrip team also joined numerous events, meetings, and industry gatherings, strengthening relationships and expanding our global network. We were also at:
- VDR Hamburg
- VDR Berlin
- Plug & Play Summit Milan
Looking ahead
The first half of 2026 reinforced what drives Roundtrip forward: building capabilities that address real operational challenges for corporate travel managers. From multi-level approval workflows to centralized itinerary management, every product development was shaped by practical business requirements.
Going forward, we’ll continue sharing updates on product releases, exhibitions and meetings attendance, and market insights for corporate travel professionals. Our goal is to give you visibility into how Roundtrip is growing — with the same transparency we bring to the platform.
