http://www.TheBeat.travel/ The leading independent travel distribution newsletter. Published as news happens 49 weeks per year. Sat, 13 Mar 2010 19:15:01 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=GDSX-iPhone-appDeloitte's travel management department intends to offer employees a new iPhone application released in January by GDSX, provider of the consulting giant's pre-trip approval technology. "We aren't...Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:34:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=Travizon-appBoston-area travel management company Travizon is allocating development resources for its own BlackBerry and iPhone mobile applications, including a "mini security" tool allowing travel managers to...Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:02:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=ASTA-BA-agency-dealsThe American Society of Travel Agents asked British Airways to delay by six months its plan to next month implement new financial arrangements with U.S. travel agencies. As first reported by The...Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:06:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=Sabre-GetThere-cubeless-midmarketSabre's planned integration of itineraries from the GetThere corporate self-booking tool with the firm's cubeless enterprise social network service, hinted at last year, is "most imminent" for...Tue, 09 Mar 2010 14:04:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=UAL-ARCUnited Airlines on Feb. 26 joined American Airlines in laying into unnamed travel agencies that acquired ARC numbers of other travel agencies, but not the companies themselves, to build volumes and...Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:33:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=BA-agency-dealsBritish Airways plans next month to recreate financial relationships with corporate travel agencies in the United States, moving from traditional commission incentives to net fares which agencies are...Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:43:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=TripIt-corporate-programTripIt today opened registration for a new free Groups service, already in use by employees of more than 1,000 companies, which allows group members to see "when and where" participating coworkers...Tue, 02 Mar 2010 14:01:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=mar_10&cid=CWT-Andrew-WintertonCarlson Wagonlit Travel last week said it signed a memorandum of understanding to potentially outsource "some of its mid- and back-office transaction technologies" to Amadeus, with which it also...Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:59:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=feb_10&cid=ARC-AA-ownershipAmerican Airlines told travel management companies it is working with the Airlines Reporting Corp. to "more explicitly define ownership and control rules" for travel agencies after receiving...Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:40:00 -0400 http://www.TheBeat.travel/news.php?adate=feb_10&cid=Delta-Jim-CronDelta Air Lines senior vice president for global sales, reservations and distribution Jim Cron took questions from American Express Business Travel senior vice president and general manager...Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:32:00 -0400