Agencies Can Thrive With Bypass By Vendor Approach By Ivan Michael SchaefferIvan Michael Schaeffer is president and CEO of Woodside Travel Trust, Bethesda, Md.When major breakthroughs

Buyers Prioritize In Preparation For Tough RFP Season By Bruce Serlen As they prepare for the hotel RFP process that gets underway in the next two months to determine 2001 rates, travel managers

For all the progress airlines in recent years have made to expand wireless inflight Internet access, such services are available on less than a third of daily domestic U.S. flights, and only a small...

Travelers at domestic and international airports last year spent less time waiting at security checkpoints compared with 2002, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2003 Global Airport Passenger...

Airlines as part of corporate negotiations are tightening up on granting loyalty program elite status, a benefit that gained new value in recent years as such status exempted many frequent flyers from...

Both Japanese and U.S. carriers steadily are expanding their service in and out of North American gateways to Tokyo, Osaka and Nagoya, and beefing up connections between Japan and other points in Asia....

Smith Travel Research today announced the domestic hotel industry realized a 9 percent gain in revenue per available room in the first half of 2006, compared with the same period last year. The $61.30...

Overrides Undermine By Kevin P. Mitchell Kevin P. Mitchell is chairman of the Business Travel Coalition, an advocacy group based in Lafayette Hills, Pa. Last week, a prominent

Bloomberg Reduces Number Of Vendors Consolidation Of Suppliers Brings 99 Percent Compliance Rate By Maria P. Vallejo New York - Where does a travel manager start when she is