May 22, 2012 - 11:50 AM ET
Accor signed an
agreement to sell the Motel 6 and Studio 6 brands to a Blackstone Real Estate
Partners affiliate for $1.9 billion.
May 22, 2012 - 06:35 AM ET
Meetings technology firm The Active Network today launched a
suite of mobile solutions for its Business Solutions division, which includes
StarCite, that allows meeting organizers to create event-specific apps and
offers a gamification component and...
May 21, 2012 - 10:10 AM ET
Concur
is initiating discussions with airlines to enable "open bookings"
that would give corporate clients the ability to enforce policy, apply discounts
and track transactions when travelers book on airline websites.
May 18, 2012 - 10:40 AM ET
Bowing
to cost and timing concerns of local chapters about the "Chapter of the
Future" initiative, the Global Business Travel Association announced it
would "modify the timeline" and form a cross-functional task force that
includes chapter representatives...
May 18, 2012 - 10:35 AM ET
A Barcelona-based company is selling booking data globally to airlines
that in some cases identifies ticket sales to individual corporate clients.
May 17, 2012 - 07:20 AM ET
For
the past two years, First Data global strategic sourcing director Pamela McTeer
has "run a circle" on her company's travel category management,
moving through assessment, strategy development, implementation and measurement
before restarting the...
May 17, 2012 - 07:10 AM ET
Payment
fraud incidents in 2011 declined to the lowest level in seven years, according
to the Association for Financial Professionals' 2012 Payments Fraud and Control
survey. Even so, "two-thirds of companies experienced attempted or actual
fraud...
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 15, 2012 - 03:15 PM ET
U.S. Bank announced a global partnership with United
Kingdom-based settlement technology provider Conferma to help corporate
customers automate travel expense reconciliation of virtual or single-use
accounts and embed necessary reporting detail into...