Report: Companies Should Increase Travel Spending To Maximize Sales
02/18/2011
U.S. companies should increase their business travel spend by an average of 4 percent to optimize their sales revenue, according to a report issued by American Express Global Business Travel and GBTA Foundation, the Global Business Travel Association's research division. That extra investment in ...
The 25 Most Influential Executives Of The Business Travel Industry Of 2010
01/24/2011
The 25 Most Influential Executives of 2010 is Business Travel News ' 26th consecutive annual effort to identify the executives who most directly drove those changes, who forced the industry to take notice of and react to their decisions.
BTN Research: Remote Possibilities
03/18/2011
Corporate onsite remote conferencing systems have become nearly ubiquitous, according to a new BTN survey, but integration with managed travel programs remains patchy. Travel policies that govern their use are not common in the United States, and mandates even less so, as buyers labor to determine ...
BTN's 2011 Corporate Travel Index
03/16/2011
Average 2010 negotiated corporate hotel rates and January 2011 food prices each softened a bit from the previous year's levels, allowing business travelers some expense-report relief before potential price hikes take hold, according to Business Travel News' 2011 Corporate Travel Index, the annual ...
WorldMate founder Nadav Gur announced plans to leave the company in the coming weeks
02/22/2011
WorldMate founder Nadav Gur announced plans to leave the company in the coming weeks bit.ly/dPGzb5 . Gur in 2000 helped to launch the company, then called MobiMate, and served as its first CEO. According to the WorldMate website, he "grew the company to more than 5 million users across 10 mobile ...