Spotnana

Spotnana sells Travel-as-a-Service, and its model differs from most corporate travel platforms in a way that matters when evaluating it. Rather than replacing a travel management company, Spotnana provides modern technology that combines with service from leading TMCs, bringing travel buyers, sellers and providers together on one platform.

That three-sided design is the architectural point. Where a conventional booking tool serves the buyer alone, Spotnana's platform is built so buyers, sellers and providers can all accelerate innovation and deliver connected travel journeys, and the company powers travel for thousands of companies together with its partners rather than directly.

NDC support is a specific technical strength. New Distribution Capability is the airline industry standard that has proved slow for legacy travel systems to adopt, and a partner comment on Spotnana's site notes that its approach to NDC integration and its agility allowed it to build deep integrations to their NDC APIs quickly, attributing this to a modern architecture designed to leverage NDC's potential. For a travel programme wanting access to airline content only available through NDC, that capability is the deciding factor.

The tooling itself is configurable to maximise flexibility, visibility and control for travel managers. A TMC partner describes the platform as enabling them to offer customers a combination of exceptional technology and service, working toward what they call The Perfect Trip. Buyers should note the implication of the partner model: Spotnana is typically bought through or alongside a TMC rather than standalone. Pricing is not published.