GlobalStar Travel Management partnered with South Africa's Club Corporate Travel

and expects to add "at least 10 more partners in Africa before the end of 2012." GlobalStar said that Club Corporate Travel "will be responsible" for that expansion. GlobalStar also announced a partnership with Bulgaria's Europatour Pro, which it described as "one of the fastest-growing travel companies" in the country, with such clients as Bayer, Pfizer, Roche and Siemens. "Despite the trend of call centers, we remain with the vision that in-country client services continue to be of key importance to our client proposition," according to GlobalStar director of marketing and partner recruitment Mark van Iersel. "With Europatour Pro we can provide these high quality services now in Bulgaria."