This week, Airbnb launched a new tier of service, Airbnb Luxe, with more than 2,000 handpicked homes around the world, each passing evaluation across more than 300 criteria, including design and...

Such social media technologies as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and Plaxo have garnered headlines for usage surges and banter. But how can travel buyers or suppliers harness the technology for...

Travel managers with mature travel programs are peering in every nook and cranny to reduce costs amid this weak economy, struggling to find fresh approaches to saving significantly. When the well of...

In a quest to increase contract compliance by vendors and service providers, and travel policy compliance by travelers, Siemens Shared Services LLC has found that real-time audits of airline and hotel...

Great Hotels of the World wants to expand its footprint into the U.S. The European hotel marketing and distribution consortium plans to add six properties in the U.S. by the end of 2020 and is exploring...

Increasing premiums for last-room availability combined with tighter inventory controls by hotels should prompt buyers to consider pursuing LRA agreements in certain high-volume markets this year,...

The Global Business Travel Association is poised to unveil its Strategic Meetings Management 2.0 wheel—the puzzle graphic that the association built to visualize the facets of an SMM program. The...

Orbitz for Business plans to offer "live instant message customer support" by next spring. The company said a team of experts would be available to assist travel arrangers and travelers both...

Latin America's aviation industry shows strength this year—traffic in the region increased 16.1 percent year over year in April, according to the International Air Transport Association—and Panama-based...

Advocated for more than a decade and producing some success stories, use of electronic hotel folio data still has not fully taken off in managed travel. As discussed here this week by hotel, corporate...