INTERVIEW: Sabre Chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland

With his May appointment to the United States Secretary of Commerce's Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, Sabre Holdings chairman and CEO Sam Gilliland now is thinking a lot more than before about the intersection of government and industry. Normally a "strong believer that government shouldn't get much done," Gilliland has tweaked that approach this year in light of economic trends facing the travel industry. Speaking to a National Business Travel Association convention general session last week