By almost any metric, 2009 is expected to be a challenging year for corporations, travel procurement professionals and suppliers. But as veterans of prior downturns and the unprecedented turmoil...

The 2009 hotel request for proposal season for individual business travel is one that will go down in history. Under normal circumstances, the process is long, arduous and expensive for both buyers and...

American Airlines and JetBlue Airways are forming a partnership that will include codesharing and expanded service offerings out of New York, the carriers announced.  

The corporate travel industry is struggling to grasp the meaning and impact of American Airlines' announcement this week that it will shift some cost of GDS-based bookings to participating travel...

Though fourth-quarter and full-year key performance metrics for Choice Hotels not surprisingly were down year over year, the company pointed to its extended-stay portfolio as a bright spot during its...

MasterCard yesterday announced an alliance with Madrid-based Amadeus that will deliver to MasterCard's corporate card users "greater access to sophisticated airline and rail itinerary data--including...

A significant portion of Airbnb’s revenue comes from full-time renters acting as illegal hotel operators, according to a study funded by the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

Tim Bone, director of global travel, meetings and events at San Francisco-based Gap Inc., in the past 16 months has engineered a near-total makeover of the publicly traded company's travel program,...

Airbnb hung in the air over most major hotel companies' third-quarter earnings reports last week, and analysts weren’t shy about asking hoteliers to expound on what effect the sharing economy platform...

Some corporate travel buyers expect Delta Air Lines' merger agreement with Northwest Airlines to inject a bit of health into a struggling domestic industry, but many expect it to prompt more...