VIA Egencia wins Sweden's Best Travel Management Company award

STOCKHOLM, Feb. 11, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- VIA Egencia^®, the Nordic business travel company of Expedia, Inc., one of the world's largest travel companies, was named Sweden's Best Travel Management Company at yesterday's 2015 Business Travel Awards in Stockholm.

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The SBTA, Swedish Business Travel Association, and Resegeometri have been recognizing excellence in the Swedish business travel industry for the past nine years. This year, VIA Egencia is the winner of one of the ceremony's most prestigious prizes, the Customers' Choice Award. The prize is split into ten different categories and is awarded to the travel company that has the highest score based on voting from travel managers and travelers.

Michael Schuller, managing director at VIA Egencia Sweden, said of the win:

"We are extremely proud that this award reflects a vote of confidence from our customers and travelers. This is an exciting phase for us as we bring new products and services to the market such as our smartphone app Egencia^® TripNavigator, helping travelers when and where they need it most. Travel managers and travelers appreciate our user-friendly booking system and the modern solutions we provide to make booking travel easy and productive. Finally, this award also shows that our fantastic staff emphasizes personal service every time they are in contact with a customer."

Egencia 2014 Global Milestones

Over the past year, Egencia achieved some extraordinary results:

• Breaking the US$5 billion gross booking* mark;
• Deploying a more connected travel experience through the expansion of Egencia TripNavigator; and
• Growing its global presence to 64 countries – a six-fold increase since 2010.

About VIA Egencia
VIA Egencia is the leading Travel Management Company in the Nordics and part of the Egencia worldwide network of business travel experts. The global TMC provides innovative business travel technology and expert local service to more than 10,000 clients in 64 countries around the world. As part of the Expedia group (NASDAQ: EXPE), one of the world's largest online travel companies, VIA Egencia provides forward-looking companies with the ability to drive compliance and cost savings in their travel programs, while meeting the needs and requirements of the modern business traveller. For more information please visit us at www.egencia.se

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*Based on trailing twelve months gross bookings through September 30, 2014.