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Thirty-year industry veteran Stevan Porter this month was named president of the Americas for Six Continents Hotels, whose brands include... KEEP READING

Compaq Clamps Down... KEEP READING

The Meeting Professionals International Foundation, which during the past few years has contributed several significant pieces of research to the... KEEP READING

Cendant Corp.'s hotel group has appointed lodging industry veteran Tim Hamid vice president of worldwide sales, charging him with responsibility for the... KEEP READING

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives this month will inaugurate its new officers and complete the reorganization of its board of governors... KEEP READING

With many buyers scaling back to less costly hotels or adding more of these properties to their programs, they've grown much more concerned about... KEEP READING

Continuing to bring in industry veterans to run its relatively new travel distribution division, Parsippany, N.J.-based Cendant Corp. last week employed... KEEP READING

Amgen Inc. documented more than $3 million, or about 22 percent, in savings off its meeting and group travel program in 2001, after implementing a... KEEP READING

Larry Kellner, president of Continental Airlines, was in New York this month to unveil the carrier's new BusinessFirst seat (see story, page 14), and... KEEP READING

US Airways named travel industry veteran David N. Siegel president and CEO. As of March 11, he has taken on the duties temporarily assumed by chairman... KEEP READING

Tim Bone, director of global travel, meetings and events at San Francisco-based Gap Inc., in the past 16 months has engineered a near-total makeover of... KEEP READING

Cendant Corp. announced a number of key executive appointments in recent weeks. Steven Rudnitsky was named chairman and CEO of Cendant's hotel division,... KEEP READING

Midsize Co. Tackles Travel Mgmt.... KEEP READING

Executive vice president and general manager of American Express Corporate Travel Pam Arway recently spoke with Business Travel News editors David Meyer... KEEP READING

Alaska Airlines, the ninth-largest U.S. carrier, late last month announced a series of executive promotions, including William Ayer to the CEO post.... KEEP READING