Barron Hilton—retired chairman, president and CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp.—died of natural causes at his Los Angeles home on Thursday.

Onno Poortier, president of the India-based Leela Palaces, Hotels & Resorts along with the hotel group's recently appointed area director for Western India, Indrajeet Banerjee recently spoke with...

Carlson Wagonlit Travel president and CEO Hubert Joly last week spoke with Business Travel News editors David Meyer and Seth Harris about the company's growth in the first half of the year, the...

FCm Travel Solutions today announced that it will once again have a new executive overseeing its U.S. corporate travel business as John Beauvais, vice president of airline reservations and ticket...

Philip Carlisle, the chief executive of the United Kingdom's Guild of Travel Management Companies, spoke last month with The Transnational about key issues impacting multinational travel management. ...

Temporary housing provider National Corporate Housing reports that it has significantly reduced hotel booking times with the implementation of a virtual card solution with Conferma Pay.  

WestJet is laying off about a quarter of its workforce as part of a restructuring that includes call center consolidation and outsourcing airport operations, the carrier announced on Wednesday.  

This week, Airbnb launched a new tier of service, Airbnb Luxe, with more than 2,000 handpicked homes around the world, each passing evaluation across more than 300 criteria, including design and...

Australia's FCm Travel Solutions last month said its parent company took a 25 percent stake in Boston-area travel management company Garber Travel, adding it to FCm's recently expanded network. Garber,...

Great Hotels of the World wants to expand its footprint into the U.S. The European hotel marketing and distribution consortium plans to add six properties in the U.S. by the end of 2020 and is exploring...