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Business travel management, in simple terms, refers to the management of a series of activities related to business trips. It should be understood that a well-managed business travel experience can boost employees’ enthusiasm for work and thereby improve their performance, which is why business travel management has received significant attention from companies in recent years. However, many companies purchase complete business travel management systems, yet the satisfaction level of their employees on business trips remains low. Why is that? With the rapid advancement of technology in society, if companies stick to traditional approaches after acquiring such systems, they will fail to keep up with the times. Currently, there is a major reshuffle across various industries, with changes taking place in corporate production and operation models. Faced with increasingly fierce market competition, reducing costs and improving efficiency has become a crucial issue for companies to survive and thrive, and business travel management is now more stringent and cautious than ever before. According to surveys, the vast majority of business travelers are on business trips \"against their will\". Especially during long-term business trips, in addition to having restricted mobility, they have to worry about issues such as funding arrangements, personal safety, physical stamina, and even matters related to their families while handling work tasks. Therefore, we often see issues such as employees experiencing stress and low efficiency, which indirectly shows that it is not sufficient to merely focus on cost reduction, report management, or optimizing approval and reimbursement processes in order to improve employees’ work efficiency. The core value of business travel management is to enable employees to focus their efforts more effectively on the company’s core business. Being merely \"useful\" is no longer sufficient to meet people’s needs today; \"ease of use\" is what truly matters. From smart speakers to face-scanning payment systems, the customized, user-friendly, and convenient smart user experiences are undoubtedly improving our quality of life and driving the development of the market economy. By applying intelligent AI to business travel management, cumbersome processes can be reduced, the efficiency of approval and reimbursement processes can be improved, and an appropriate balance can be found between cost control and travel needs for businesses. Business travel is a very exhausting endeavor; employees can never predict what challenges they might encounter during their trips. Traditional business travel management models can only provide the most basic services, while the advent of intelligence offers employees more possibilities. Therefore, companies should continuously optimize their business travel management systems, accelerate research in intelligence technologies, and integrate intelligent services with business travel management to make it more convenient for employees to travel on business.