Hilton Hotels Corp. and Carlson Hotels Worldwide this month became the first major hotel companies to announce online checkin, allowing travelers to register electronically for their rooms in advance of...

Owners Weigh In On RFPs By Bruce Serlen While major hotel chains reach out to travel buyers at the country's largest corporations through their national accounts programs, groups of hotel owners

Cloudy Forecast Fails To Frighten Econ., Budget Chains By Bruce Serlen Thoughts of a softening national economy, which might lead to a downturn in business travel in 2001--and hence in the lodging

Hilton has maintained its 2017 guidance—1 percent to 3 percent growth in revenue per available room—though an uptick in corporate transient business that began in the fourth quarter and carried into...

The four major global distribution systems Amadeus, Galileo, Sabre and Worldspan are in the midst of enabling airfare unbundling and other travel merchandising options. Such carriers as Air Canada,...

Andersen Study: Distribution Changes? Not So Fast By Mary Ann McNulty Mirroring the distribution changes affecting other industries, travel will be distributed in the future

Eurostar last month announced that its business travel ticket sales volume increased 11.9 percent in 2007, a main driver in the record 8.26 million passengers the cross-border train operator carried...

The U.S. Department of Justice isn't ready to give the green light for Vista Equity Partners to acquire Cvent, even if the two companies are ready to get going. As Cvent's annual conference wrapped in...

TechTalk By Cheryl Rosen MetLife's Molesky Tries Tech MetLife is about to begin pilot testing two new travel technologies--GetThere.com's Global Manager online booking system and Delta's Sky Card,