May 16, 2012 - 02:05 PM ET
Business travel management practices in Europe are more
similar to one another than ever, but cultural and regulatory differences
continue to present challenges. A recent Business Travel News examination shed
light on how travel management is practiced...
May 16, 2012 - 11:05 AM ET
Lodge
cards are set to receive their biggest shake-up in 30 years as various trials
start later this summer to generate single-use 16-digit card numbers in the
passenger name record of every air booking made through a central payment
account with...
May 11, 2012 - 12:30 PM ET
Perhaps
not surprisingly, U.S. business travelers not part of managed programs "are
more satisfied with many aspects of business travel compared to others in more
structured programs," according to a recent Global Business Travel
Association Foundation...
May 11, 2012 - 09:30 AM ET
British Airways and Iberia's parent company posted an
after-tax loss of €146 million for the March quarter, reversing a €33 million
profit from the year-earlier period, which included Iberia's standalone results
from January 2011.
May 09, 2012 - 12:35 PM ET
Arguably
the dominant philosophical debate in corporate travel in 2012 has been whether
"consumerization" will lead to corporate travelers deserting their
managed travel programs and booking who and how they like. It is a scenario
that conceivably...
May 07, 2012 - 08:15 AM ET
Travel
management companies have added their voices to a storm of criticism regarding
worsening border control delays at London Heathrow airport.
May 02, 2012 - 03:10 PM ET
American
Express Global Business Travel created a new regional structure and named three
longtime execs to run the regions. Tom Bligh became senior vice president and
general manager of the Americas; Katrina Cliffe was named vice president and
general...
April 26, 2012 - 10:50 AM ET
Luxury chain Fairmont
Hotels & Resorts late last year appointed as president Jennifer Fox, who
previously had served as InterContinental Hotels Group's COO of managed
operations in Europe. Fox recently spoke with Business Travel News lodging editor...
April 24, 2012 - 11:05 AM ET
As
part of a €1.5 billion savings program, Lufthansa is freezing fleet expansion
for two years, scrapping first class on a large part of its long-haul network
and pondering further route withdrawals.
April 23, 2012 - 09:45 AM ET
NuTravel in the
United States, France's KDS and New Zealand-based Serko plan Tuesday to
announce a global alliance in which they share sales leads and offer mutual
multinational clients integrated data, broader content, consolidated contracts,
speedier...
April 19, 2012 - 09:25 AM ET
The
European Parliament voted Thursday to approve a new, long-term agreement on the
transfer of European Union airline passenger data to authorities in the United
States.
April 13, 2012 - 01:25 PM ET
Luxury hotelier Jumeirah Group has more than doubled its portfolio since
the beginning of 2011 and expects to become a significantly bigger player among
corporate travel buyers as a result.
April 10, 2012 - 12:15 PM ET
The Global Business Travel Association in its latest
quarterly outlook issued Tuesday again revised downward its 2012 international
business travel forecast, owing to the ongoing eurozone debt crisis, slowing
growth in Asia and high oil prices.
April 09, 2012 - 02:25 PM ET
BCD Travel in February explained its CSR committee and principles, provided
new data on its energy savings and listed the various philanthropic causes to
which it donates in the third Communication on Progress report it has submitted
to the United...
March 30, 2012 - 01:20 PM ET
With the recent opening of the Corinthia Hotel London, the brand's ninth
property, chairman Alfred Pisani said the brand, which began as a single
property in Malta, is nearing a point of "critical mass," when it
could begin a more rapid expansion with...