Following several years of stiff rate increases and a tough negotiating climate, travel buyers this year should absorb much more moderate increases in average daily hotel rates. Most buyers facing...

Patrick Diemer, AirPlus chairman & managing director, Defender of Corporate Payments

The National Business Travel Association late last month formed a new committee dedicated to corporate group and meeting travel, charged with creating products and tools designed to educate corporate...

The European Commission appears ready to deregulate pricing controls on global distribution systems but maintain its curbs on the powers of GDSs with airline ownership. The new thinking of the...

Demand for more accurate, predictive and timely global travel management reporting is rising as more companies enter the realm of transnational travel management. Suppliers are responding with...

Japan Airlines VP and head of global sales Steve Smith is retiring at the end of this month after 14 years with the carrier.  

Alaska Airlines is eliminating most change fees, making the policy universal across the five largest U.S. carriers.  

Helsinki-based Wärtsilä, a manufacturer for the marine, maintenance and energy markets, in 1999 set out to establish an effective travel management program and hired Ann Cleveland-Oey, who had been a...

In 2016, Allstate beta-tested a self-serve sales portal from United Airlines to enable customizable reporting and self-processing of waivers and other services that previously required the carrier's...

Southwest Airlines this fall will add Syracuse, N.Y., to its destination list and fully restore its international destination map, according to the carrier's latest schedule update.