A Hickory Global Partners audit showed that its consortia hotel rates were at parity or better in 97.9 percent of searches

with those offered by CCRA, ABC Corporate Services, BCD Travel and Thor, according to Hickory. That figure is about 3 percentage points higher than the percentage Hickory found in a 2012 audit. The most recent audit searched rates offered in the Sabre global distribution system for two-night stays on three specific dates in August and September at 628 hotels in 368 cities, according to Hickory.