Carlson Hotels is in the midst of a program to grow by 50 percent within the next three years its hotel portfolio to at least 1,500 hotels globally. Thorsten Kirschke, COO for Carlson Hotels in the...

Nineteen percent of buyers surveyed said they were directly involved with social media programs for travel, 24 percent were indirectly involved and 27 percent were not involved--while 30 percent said...

The National Business Travel Association is developing a certification course in strategic meetings management, with plans to announce course dates at the 2009 NBTA International Convention and...

Despite travel buyer and hotelier efforts this year, the accuracy of the hotel rates loaded into the global distribution systems has only slightly improved. Meanwhile, another chronic problem, the...

Carlson earlier this month named CFO Trudy Rautio its new president and CEO, replacing departing chief executive Hubert Joly. Rautio, for 15 years a Carlson senior executive, recently spoke with BTN...

There are fleet shortages, but they are not as bad as they were last year. There is still a semiconductor shortage. The price for vehicles is still high, even used. All of this is impacting car rental...

Regional air transportation network OneJet will begin service between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati on Oct. 19. The network, which launched in April 2015, will fly round-trip on weekday mornings and will...

Japan-based airlines on April 1 are set to adopt a 0 percent travel agency commission structure for international tickets purchased within the country, taking away a valuable revenue stream for agencies...

If the domino theory applies to airlines, 2016 could be a year of great tumbling. Merger activity has been the dominant topic on the U.S. domestic airline front since Delta Air Lines and Northwest...

American Airlines has added 16,000 small and midsize corporate accounts since the beginning of the year, growing the segment by 50 percent, SVP of revenue management Don Casey said during the carrier's...