August 18, 2010
One year after an unprecedented and protracted meltdown in
their meetings business, Las Vegas hoteliers finally sense a recovery in the
making. In the meantime, however, the prices and perks precipitated by the
crisis continue to be strong hole cards for planners looking to negotiate the
best possible deal.
August 11, 2010
Delta Air Lines on Wednesday unveiled plans for the
redevelopment and expansion of Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International
Airport. Work on the $1.2 billion project, which was approved by the Port
Authority of New York & New Jersey last week, will begin next month.
August 06, 2010
Business travelers face the highest taxes in Chicago, New
York and Boston, but Portland, Ore., ranks highest as the city with the most
taxes that specifically target travelers, according to research released on
Thursday by the National Business Travel Association Foundation and Concur.
August 06, 2010
U.S. Customs and Border
Protection on Sept. 8 plans to begin collecting through the newly established
Electronic System for Travel Authorization a $14 fee once every two years from
travelers entering the United States from visa-waiver countries. The fees will
fund a new federal tourism bureau established this year by the Travel Promotion
Act.
July 15, 2010
Six years ago, JetBlue Airways offered only 11 daily flights
from two gates at Boston Logan International Airport, a modest presence that
turned the heads of few corporate travel buyers. Now, the carrier is offering
more service from the city than any of its competitors, growing at a clip of 30
percent this year alone and making the city a focal point of its burgeoning
corporate contracting initiatives.
June 29, 2010
The U.S. State Department on July 13 will raise the price for visas, passports and other consular services—some by more than $300—to reflect what the department determined is the true cost to provide such services.
June 29, 2010
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey on Monday reopened the Bay Runway at John F. Kennedy International Airport, which had been shut down since March 1, leaving only three runways in operation at the airport.
June 18, 2010
Travel buyers can expect ultra-high hotel rates in London during the 2012 Olympics and should start negotiating with suppliers now to secure availability, according to a white paper published this week by British hotel booking agency Hotelscene.
June 17, 2010
Amadeus announced Wednesday that it has successfully integrated U.K. rail booking tool Evolvi deeper into its E-Travel Management corporate booking tool, enabling travel managers for the first time to view combined data for both the air and rail elements of the same trip.
June 16, 2010
Lufthansa confirmed today that it will raise fares in Germany and an unspecified number of other markets on June 22. The airline also will lower its fuel surcharges on the same date, but a spokesperson said there is no connection between the two sets of adjustments, and indeed the surcharge reductions are much more modest than the fare increases.