September 08, 2010
In an updated forecast released Wednesday, BCD Travel's
Advito consulting unit said airfares next year will grow by low-to-mid single-digit
percentages in all regions, while overall worldwide average daily hotel rates would
grow by a similar magnitude with significant regional variance.
September 08, 2010
Microsoft has started measuring the effectiveness of its telepresence
suites in terms of how quickly they are helping users bring new products to
market, the company's EMEA travel manager, Julia Heesterman, said at the NBTA
Europe conference in Lisbon Tuesday. Microsoft has opened telepresence suites
at its offices in Seattle, Singapore and Reading, U.K., with more poised to
come.
September 07, 2010
The American Civil Liberties Union
on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
that challenges the authority of U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents to
search and seize "without reasonable
suspicion" travelers' laptops and other electronic
devices.
September 02, 2010
Partnership Travel Consulting has named Philip Dunphy as its
senior vice president.
August 27, 2010
Most travel buyers expect
their companies to increase travel levels in the second half of 2010, according
to a survey of European and North American travel managers released on Friday
by the German-based payment services provider AirPlus International.
August 25, 2010
Many
companies with operations in the Asia/Pacific region need to revisit health and
security training policies for their travelers, particularly those who travel
into high-risk areas, according to a report developed by International SOS and
presented on Wednesday at The Association of Corporate Travel Executives'
annual Asia/Pacific Education Conference.
August 24, 2010
Corporate travel prices next year will increase in
most supplier categories, Carlson Wagonlit Travel said in its annual forecast
released on Tuesday, with U.S. hotel rates projected to grow as much as 7.4
percent and domestic economy airfares slated for hikes of up to 5 percent.
August 19, 2010
ARC on Thursday
reported that mega agency transactions in July grew nearly 10 percent year over
year, far surpassing the roughly 3 percent growth rate for all ARC-accredited
agencies and once again showing relative strength in corporate travel compared
with other segments.
August 16, 2010
The firestorm of layoffs that charred the corporate travel
industry at the lowest depths of the recession may have cooled, hiring managers
may be warming to the prospect of adding more travel buyers to their employment
rolls, and travel managers' attitudes toward their future, employment and
industry viability may have warmed to pre-downturn levels, but corporate travel's
new Ice Age still holds one aspect of professional management in a deep freeze:
travel managers' salaries, according to Business
Travel News' 27th annual Travel Manager Salary & Attitude Survey.
August 13, 2010
Total travel agency
sales last month grew more than 14 percent over July 2009, while the number of
transactions climbed more than 3 percent, ARC reported Thursday. The rate of
year-over-year growth in July slowed from June, when agency sales surged nearly
22 percent and transactions grew 5 percent.