INTERVIEW: Mike Buckman, CEO Designee Of BCD's New TMC

Mike Buckman will run the new travel management company produced by a pending merger between Atlanta-based WorldTravel BTI and the TQ3 Travel Solutions TMCs owned by Germany's TUI. Under Dutch parent company BCD Holdings, the newly formed TMC also would include British agency The Travel Company, which last month said it acquired the Synergi agency network. An excerpt from a Friday telephone interview with Buckman, conducted by The Beat's Jay Campbell, follows.