A Blackstone Group affiliate yesterday said it completed a $4.3 billion acquisition of Travelport , and planned to sell 14 percent of the former Cendant travel distribution subsidiary to Technology...

Jumeirah Group parent company Dubai Holdings promoted Jumeirah Group president and CEO Gerald Lawless to a new position in charge of tourism and hospitality.

Guided by industry professionals including travel managers at Altria, Ingersoll-Rand and PricewaterhouseCoopers, Texas-based Hotel Sourcing Corporation is floating a new rating system that would allow...

Dynamic pricing continues to generate controversy and a wide difference in opinions between travel managers and hotel representatives. Preliminary findings from a study by BTE Tourism Training and...

Two weeks after it placed employees in the U.S. and around the globe on furlough but stated it would not do so for employees in India during the country's lockdown, India-based Oyo Rooms confirmed it...

British Airways finally has declared its intention to eliminate all payments to travel agents in its U.K. home market. It will move to zero percent commission on May 1.

Global distribution systems are touting a flurry of recent improvements to their hotel offerings, including higher participation from hoteliers worldwide, better capabilities for rate parity,...

Former Northwest Airlines sales executive Fay Beauchine last month was named executive vice president of global meetings, incentives and events for Carlson Marketing, a meetings and event management and...

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives has announced its new board officers for 2002 to 2003.

The combination of virtual payment cards and mobile wallets gained further ground with the launch of a new service from Mastercard and digital card platform Extend.