The National Business Travel Association's launch of the Strategic Meetings Management Certification program last month established a new professional benchmark in a spend category that until very...

FRHI Hotels & Resorts has opened the first property of its new Neqta Hotels brand portfolio in Shanghai’s Xuhui District.

Expense and meeting technology integrations appeared to dominate the tradeshow at the National Business Travel Association's annual convention here last week with dozens of announcements and some...

Since becoming American Express Business Travel's COO in the fall of 2004, Priyan Fernando has embarked on a journey to change the company's culture and started by putting in place a standard global...

"Expense is the gateway that everyone must pass through," said Steven Mandelbaum. "If you want to have control over your program, you need to have control over your expense system." And The Advisory...

Direct members passed bylaw changes on May 2 that granted allied members full voting rights for additional bylaw changes. Voting for the second set of bylaw changes is open through May 21 and includes...

Baked into the revenue synergies that American Airlines and US Airways envision in their $11 billion merger, announced Thursday, are the typically espoused benefits of linking networks and mixing...

American Airlines and WestJet Airlines announced an interline agreement and indicated they are exploring further commercial cooperation bit.ly/bLXMGl . Effective 9 November, passengers traveling between...

Corporate executives during the past year continually have sliced and diced their businesses and budgets to better position themselves against the relentless economic conditions and their suppliers' own...

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