TBR Index Shows Industry Contribution To Economy By David MeyerThe Travel Business Roundtable index of leading economic indicators issued last week showed a healthy 0.5 percent rise

Pioneers' Foresight Deserves Recognition By Michael Whitesage Change happens so fast in the travel industry that it is almost a cliché to talk about it. We learn as we

Leveraging Grows By Chris Davis In what seems to be the beacon of a more sophisticated era of meetings management, the number of corporate travel buyers who combine their meetings

OTA Debuts Data Protocol By Cheryl Rosen Travel buyers and suppliers this week will take an e-step closer together as the OpenTravel Alliance releases Version 1.0 of its XML-based communication

Lufthansa Cuts Commissions By Amon Cohen German travel managers have become the latest Europeans to deal with the new paradigm of extensive commission cuts. Lufthansa on Jan. 1 reduced rates to 5

GoldSpring Consulting partner Neil Hammond said Brexit would not affect corporate cards, as the United Kingdom already uses the pound, as opposed to the EU's euro. Should Scotland leave the United...

XML Gets Hotel Tech Hand By Jay Campbell The Open Travel Alliance is one step closer to standards for Extensible Markup Language-based Web data exchanges in the hotel sector thanks to an alliance

Bai Haibo, HNA Hospitality Group chairman & CEO & HNA Tourism Group board

Bradley Tilden, Alaska Airlines president & CEO

BTN's 2015 Most Influential Arne Sorenson, Marriott International President & CEO 26037 0 27306 THE HOTEL IMPERIALIST Seemingly content to focus on micro-acquisitions like Delta Hotels and Resorts,...