ALTOUR Unveils ALTOUR iQ During Innovation Faceoff at Business Travel Show America 2026, Moving Business Travel Beyond Reporting to Decision Intelligence

ALTOUR's new groundbreaking conversational intelligence platform propels corporate travel beyond traditional reporting to predictive insights, smarter decisions, and measurable business outcomes.

NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ALTOUR, a global leader in business travel management, has unveiled ALTOUR iQ, its proprietary AI-powered conversational travel intelligence platform designed to transform how organizations understand, predict and optimize their travel programs. By enabling users to explore business questions in plain language and receive insights instantly, ALTOUR iQ shortens the path from information overload to informed strategic decisions.

ALTOUR iQ was showcased as an Innovation Faceoff finalist at Business Travel Show America 2026, a competition highlighting innovations in managed travel, meetings and traveler support. Haley Rossow, ALTOUR's Senior Director of Global Business Intelligence, presented the platform on October 14 in New York, demonstrating how conversational intelligence helps travel leaders understand performance and shape future outcomes.

Developed in-house, ALTOUR iQ represents a significant advancement in corporate travel technology, moving beyond conventional dashboards and historical reporting to deliver predictive insights, scenario analysis and actionable intelligence in seconds.

Rather than requiring travel managers to navigate complex reports or spend hours analyzing fragmented data, ALTOUR iQ enables them to ask business questions in everyday language, uncover the factors driving performance, anticipate future outcomes and evaluate actions that can deliver maximized business value. That unlocks greater capacity to recognize opportunities early and improve program performance in line with an organization's priorities and budgets.

From Data Visibility to Decision Intelligence

The platform's capabilities are built around four interconnected dimensions of decision intelligence:

• Know: Gain immediate visibility into travel program performance, spending patterns, and emerging opportunities.
• Understand: Identify the underlying drivers of costs, traveler behavior, and program outcomes.
• Anticipate: Forecast future trends, identify emerging risks, and evaluate potential financial impacts.
• Challenge: Test assumptions, explore alternative strategies and determine which actions can deliver the greatest business value.

By connecting program activity with its drivers and likely outcomes, ALTOUR iQ supports more informed conversations with leadership about budget priorities, supplier strategy and the contribution of travel and meetings investments to organizational goals.

"What makes ALTOUR iQ so powerful is its ability to synthesize large volumes of data and uncover insights in seconds that could otherwise take hours of searching and analysis," said Rossow. "A travel manager can ask where savings opportunities are concentrated, explore what is driving them and test how different actions could affect the forecast – all within the same conversation. That means spotting opportunities sooner and intervening while there is still time to improve the outcome fundamentally changes what travel management teams can accomplish"

Innovation Designed Around Business Outcomes

ALTOUR iQ reflects ALTOUR's broader commitment to redefining corporate travel management through proprietary technology, AI-driven automation and solutions designed around client business outcomes.

By connecting travel program activity with the decisions that influence cost and performance, ALTOUR iQ enables travel leaders to operate more strategically, engage executive stakeholders with greater confidence and demonstrate the measurable contribution of their travel programs to broader organizational goals.

"Travel managers are being asked to demonstrate how their programs contribute to broader business goals, and technology should give them greater capacity to do that," said Gabe Rizzi, President of ALTOUR. "ALTOUR iQ goes beyond showing what happened to help them understand why, where to focus and which actions could have the greatest impact before costs or risks escalate. Showcasing the platform at Innovation Faceoff gives buyers a firsthand look at how ALTOUR is setting a new standard for what travel managers can expect from their technology and what their programs can achieve."

Following its unveiling at Business Travel Show America, ALTOUR iQ is being made available through a phased commercial rollout, with broader market availability planned for Q1 2027.

To learn more about ALTOUR iQ or book a demo session, visit altour.com.

About ALTOUR

ALTOUR is a globally recognized leader in corporate travel management dedicated to managing the complexities of connecting people so they can represent their brands in the most impactful way possible. With a presence in over 90 countries, ALTOUR's approach is defined by the belief that there's a "better way" to handle travel – smarter, faster, easier and more tailored to each client's needs. ALTOUR's global offering also covers the full meetings and events lifecycle, from strategy and sourcing to delivery and reconciliation, through one connected framework. As part of the Internova Travel Group, the highest-ranking American corporate travel management company according to Business Travel News, ALTOUR combines global reach with local insights to maximize the value of every business interaction. For more information, please visit our website at altour.com or follow us on LinkedIn.

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