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5Q With Best Western's Dorothy Dowling SWA Deal At Newark Prompts DOJ To OK UA/CO Merger IHG Seeks Global Dynamic Pricing Adoption After Asia Success Delta Air Lines applied to U.S. and European authorities for approval to operate daily roundtrip service from Boston and Miami to London Heathrow... Bankrupt Japan Airlines Group intends to retire 103 aircraft, "completely eliminate" unprofitable routes and cut about 16,000 employees, according to a reorganization plan submitted to Tokyo District Court...

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The new United Airlines named Continental veteran Dave Hilfman senior vice president of worldwide sales... Southwest Airlines through a proposed deal with United and Continental would obtain at Newark slots for 18 daily roundtrip flights... Hotel request for proposal processor Uversa International partnered with RateTiger to provide automated hotel rate checks... Standard Companies Centralize Travel Program 5Q With Marriott's David Townshend

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Hotel rates booked in global distribution systems climbed 6 percent and bookings rose 24.5 percent worldwide in July over last year... Avis Budget sweetened its offer to purchase Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group... GSA adjusted upward by 10 percent to $77 the standard reimbursable per diem for hotel rates, effective Oct. 1 for fiscal year 2011... PricewaterhouseCoopers for 2011 predicted a 4.1 percent rise in U.S. lodging rates... North American corporate airfares, hotel rates and meeting costs in 2011 generally will increase as rental and chauffeured car costs decrease, according to Carlson Wagonlit Travel...

"The Beat" is the flagship brand of online business-to-business travel publishing company ProMedia.travel. At its core, The Beat is an industry-leading, email "travel business newsletter" about business travel distribution and technology. The Beat is published as news happens, 49 weeks a year.

In 2008, ProMedia.travel launched TheBeat.travel, a travel business community, which is a portal for news and opinion offering multiple blogs by ProMedia.travel personnel and industry leaders. www.TheBeat.travel also houses the keyword-searchable news archive for The Beat's email newsletter, which is available only to The Beat's newsletter subscribers.

September 2008 saw the launch of The Beat Live, a travel business conference, which is an edgy and educational forum taken from the "pages" of The Beat.

The Beat's email newsletter audience has grown to more than 6,000 since its launch on August 2, 2004 with 35 readers. Covering the dynamic travel distribution sector, the fresh, independent newsletter brought a new model to travel industry publishing. Online and by email, no one else keeps pace.

Founder and reporter Jay Campbell has covered the travel industry for seventeen years, including roles as executive editor and columnist with Business Travel News and a division of Reuters. A prolific writer and leading travel industry commentator, Jay is also chief content officer of ProMedia.travel.

Reporter David Jonas has covered the travel industry for more than a decade, including several years as a senior editor at BTN. One of America's top airline industry journalists, David has authored more than a thousand articles on a wide range of business travel and travel management issues. He is also content director for ProMedia.travel.

Reporter Mary Ann McNulty has covered the travel industry for two decades, including significant contributions to Business Travel News, Corporate Travel magazine and Meeting News. A highly respected journalist and speaker, Mary Ann in 2000 received the Association of Corporate Travel Executives' Professionalism Award. Mary Ann also serves as content director for ProMedia.travel.

Staff writer Lauren Darson covers the lodging sector for ProMedia.travel. She joined ProMedia.travel in February 2008 after internships with The New York Daily News, The Queens Courier and The Legislative Gazette. Lauren is a native New Yorker and graduate of CUNY Brooklyn College.

ProMedia.travel also publishes Management.travel, The Transnational and Procurement.travel, all of which are free to subscribers.

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