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

With meetings demand on the rise, so too is the number of convention center hotels being built in the United States, according to real estate investment firm Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm counts five new...

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

DFW At Center Of Area Revitalization By Frank Rosci The North Texas cities of Dallas and Fort Worth are regarded as one of the leading business travel and corporate meetings growth

Amex: Gap Closing On Increases By Sarah Welt New York - Business travel prices are expected to increase 2 to 3 percent in 2000, the smallest overall increase in six years, according