Travel Category Management: A Continuous Process At First Data
05/17/2012
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 process.
E-RFP Eruption: Shifting Meeting Sourcing Strategies As Online Leads Swamp Hoteliers
05/03/2012
Rare are the times when hoteliers are frustrated by too much demand, but a tsunami of electronic meeting requests for proposals, many including dozens of properties and triggered by the rise of a few third-party RFP applications, has left properties struggling to keep up and demanding changes. It ...
BTN's 2011 Corporate Travel 100
09/30/2011
Like most corporate travel programs, the very largest are in a period of growth, driven by corporate profitability and an ongoing pursuit of incremental revenue. Coinciding with travel price inflation, such growth translates to higher spending, which in turn prompts greater scrutiny of that ...
BTN's 2012 Small & Medium Enterprise Report
04/16/2012
Differences in travel management programs across small and medium enterprises are easier to find than similarities, but there are a few characteristics emblematic of the segments: SMEs rarely employ a dedicated full-time travel manager, for instance. They typically develop travel policies but ...
Icelandic Ash Cloud Hangs Over Chicago Meeting
06/01/2010
As Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano continued to pump flight-halting ash into European airspace, travel buyers and suppliers attending the Association of Corporate Travel Executives Global Education Conference brainstormed strategies to manage travel in the face of unprecedented disruptions.