Globalizing Businesses Raise Profile Of Asian Chains By Maria P. VallejoFinancial crises aside, the Asia/Pacific region received much attention last year from corporate traveler

DOT issued a proposed rulemaking addressing display of "basic" ancillary airline fees in various sales channels. Now in a 90-day public comment period, DOT's long-awaited proposals include two...

Pioneers' Foresight Deserves Recognition By Michael Whitesage Change happens so fast in the travel industry that it is almost a cliché to talk about it. We learn as we

TBR Index Shows Industry Contribution To Economy By David MeyerThe Travel Business Roundtable index of leading economic indicators issued last week showed a healthy 0.5 percent rise

XML Gets Hotel Tech Hand By Jay Campbell The Open Travel Alliance is one step closer to standards for Extensible Markup Language-based Web data exchanges in the hotel sector thanks to an alliance

OTA Debuts Data Protocol By Cheryl Rosen Travel buyers and suppliers this week will take an e-step closer together as the OpenTravel Alliance releases Version 1.0 of its XML-based communication

Lufthansa Cuts Commissions By Amon Cohen German travel managers have become the latest Europeans to deal with the new paradigm of extensive commission cuts. Lufthansa on Jan. 1 reduced rates to 5

Leveraging Grows By Chris Davis In what seems to be the beacon of a more sophisticated era of meetings management, the number of corporate travel buyers who combine their meetings

The International Air Transport Association has begun dismantling the numerous barriers it maintains against true pan-European travel management. Change is being accelerated under pressure from the...

Put Down Your Microscope, Pick Up A Telescope The travel industry has always been unique in a variety of ways. Not only can your competition sell your product at the same price that you can