First-quarter airline bookings handled by members of the United Kingdom's Guild of Travel Management Companies increased 4 percent year over year,

marking the fourth consecutive quarter of an increase in such transactions. Hotel, rail and car rental transactions each grew even more sharply year over year—up 12 percent, 10 percent and 17 percent respectively, echoing a trend for faster growth in non-air transactions noted in the annual results released Thursday by Hogg Robinson Group, a GTMC member. GTMC members claim to handle among them 80 percent of U.K. managed travel.