U.S. Bank Partners With Conferma For Reconciliation
05/15/2012
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 both booking and payment records. The offering ...
Single-Use Card Numbers Set To Radically Change Corporate Air Payments
05/16/2012
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 a travel management company.
Perspective: The Newest Dinosaur?
05/10/2012
The foundation of the travel industry used to be the strong bonds nurtured between the providers and the buyers of travel products and services: Partnerships. Partnerships were the building blocks for many things. They often guided communications and were key factors in the development of new ideas ...
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 ...
University Of Nottingham Completes Fast Travel Program Rollout
04/27/2012
The United Kingdom's University of Nottingham is enjoying lower travel management company fees, administrative costs and supplier rates following a six-month rollout of a fully automated and managed purchase-to-pay solution.