Upcoming Events

MAR 15

2010 NBTA Strategic Travel Symposium (NYC) (2 days)

MAR 21

2010 CASMA w/The Beat Live Tour (Montreal) (4 days)

MAR 22

2010 NBTA Mexico (Mexico City) (3 days)

MAR 30

2010 NBTA Europe Virtual Forum w/Jay (1 day)

APR 13

2010 NBTA Canada (Toronto) (2 days)

MAY 12

2010 ITM Annual Conference (London) w/Jay (2 days)

MAY 16

2010 ACTE Global (Chicago) (3 days)

JUN 06

2010 NYU Hospitality Conference (NYC) (3 days)

News Feeds

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TRX To Delist From Nasdaq GDSX Releases Mobile Pre-Trip Approval App, Deloitte To Test TMC Travizon Building Mobile Security App ASTA Asks BA To Delay Agency Net Fare Program Sabre Socializing Itineraries For The (Midmarket) Enterprise

	TheTransnational.travel
To win approval from European regulators for a joint venture, AA, BA and Iberia agreed to give up slots at London and/or New York airports... Greece became a member of the U.S. Visa Waiver program.... Marriott International by 2015 plans to open 30 new properties in Europe, doubling to 80,000 its room count in the region.... 5Q With ATPI's Graham Ramsey BT Streamlines Hotel Negotiations With Bidders' Conference

	Management.travel
TRX will leave the Nasdaq by the end of this month partly because of its inability to meet requirements for a minimum $1 share price and $2.5 million in equity... Total U.S. travel agency air sales processed through ARC in February rose 16.8 percent year over year, the highest such increase since January 2007... KesselRun Corporate Travel Solutions named former BCD Travel executive Dee Runyan as senior partner... The U.S. Travel Association created a "board member council" to "defend and promote" meetings, incentives and trade shows, co-chaired by Maritz Travel CEO Christine Duffy... Amadeus delayed the target date for general release of its Amadeus One agent desktop from the second half of this year to 2011...

	Procurement.travel
Republic Airways Holdings' James Reichart will oversee agency and corporate sales, and distribution across the Midwest and Frontier brands.... United Airlines' corporate customer revenue in February increased 13 percent year over, according to a presentation by CFO Kathryn Mikells.... Global distribution system hotel bookings in January 2010 increased 5 percent while average daily rate declined 1.2 percent to�$155.19�versus January 2009... Hyatt Hotels Corp. reported a net loss in fourth quarter 2009 of $12 million compared with a net loss of $142 million the year before... Hertz Global Holdings reported adjusted fourth-quarter net income of $23 million compared with an adjusted net loss of $73 million the year before...

Posted Sept 25, 2009

Business Travel Spend By Trip Type

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Posted Sept 17, 2009

ROI Of Business Travel

New data on business travel's value ... See more here and here.

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Posted Apr 27, 2009

Twitter = More Dirt, But It Is Fun

Three months ago I posted an item about how annoying Twitter was and how I just didn't want to face it. I was determined only to publish into Twitter links to our stories and never look at it again. For some reason I can't get the dang Twitterfeed to work for all content from ProMedia.travel's free newsletters, but glitches aside, it is pretty amazing how quickly a content producer can generate followers with no effort. Twitter.com/thebeat_travel has 383 followers and we did nothing.

So, Twitter is a great tool for the dissemination of information. But after reading more on blogs like TechCrunch about how Twitter is a real-time search engine of people's thoughts, I started paying more attention.