Posted September 26, 2011
Attendees to last week's fourth annual edition of The Beat Live should click below to download slides. Those who did not attend certainly missed an action-packed event. At least, it was for Jay Campbell. Click here to see him jump from 108 stories at the Vegas Stratosphere. Here's another look.
And here is some content from the conference...
Steve Reynolds keynote
Slides by Solutionz' Group's Chicke Fitzgerald
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Posted September 6, 2011
To a large degree, the latest distribution debates are about controlling relationships with travelers. But what about the people who pay the bills in the end? They're not invited to the table to discuss airline-GDS economics, they're left out of the loop on direct supplier-to-traveler marketing, and they're often not privy to incentive deals among their suppliers. Corporate travel buyers are not paranoid, but the strategic ones are asking hard questions.
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Posted August 25, 2011
Click the links below to see what each candidate in this year's Keynote Vote intends to discuss. All readers of The Beat will soon receive an emailed ballot via a Zoomerang poll. If you do not, you may send your vote to Jay. Please do not vote for someone in your own company; you will be disqualified if you do. The highest vote-getter will deliver a keynote speech Sept. 21 at The Beat Live in Vegas. Runners up will participate in a panel discussion on Sept. 20. Register here to attend.
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Posted July 29, 2011
Travel management companies are offering customers all the airfares and optional services an airline can muster. Tech firms are facilitating it. The economics make room for all parties. Even corporate buyers have returned to their day jobs.
This is not 2011.
At some point, though, one would think optional services will be available. So what will that look like? How will it change things? At The Beat Live Sept. 19-21, we'll put aside the day's clashes and imagine the other side. Former airline Read More »
Posted July 27, 2011
Got an opinion or idea? Of course you do! Here's your chance to speak in person to our influential audience of corporate travel and technology executives at The Beat Live in September, by submitting a pitch for our 2011 Keynote Vote.
At this year's The Beat Live conference in Las Vegas, Sept. 19-21, one of our keynote presentations will be delivered by a speaker chosen by popular vote among readers of The Beat. We did this last year, too, when the highest vote-getter was Ron DiLeo of ACTE. He f Read More »
Posted July 12, 2011
Join us in Las Vegas Sept. 19-21 at The Beat Live, featuring keynote appearances by Concur Chairman and CEO Steve Singh, Amadeus EVP for Commercial Philippe Chérèque and Carlson Wagonlit Travel President for Suppliers, Products and Technology Andrew Winterton.
Register here: www.thebeat.travel/live
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Posted September 23, 2010
The Beat's readers named Continental Airlines the 2010 Supplier Of The Year, Business Travel Media Group announced Wednesday during The Beat Live. Continental also won in the airline category.
Polled this summer, readers of The Beat were asked which company in each of six supplier segments they "most admire for its policies, management style and service for business clients." Those who voted for their own company were disqualified.
Other winners included:
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Posted August 20, 2010
Congrats to Ron DiLeo of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives! Ron will deliver a keynote speech at 9 am Wednesday Sept. 22 at The Beat Live in Chicago.
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