Exponential growth of supplier diversity programs is presenting a new procurement challenge at many large companies: finding certified, minority-owned businesses able to meet their demands for volume,...

Overall hotel guest satisfaction decreased slightly year over year, although satisfaction related to cost and fees increased, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2011 North America Hotel Guest...

An airfare analyst and an aviation professor are working to shake up the ways fares are bought and sold in the United States with the creation of an exchange index that, if supported, would enable...

Progress in Washington, D.C., can be a sluggish beast, with any incremental change the product of a long-winded process of committees, negotiations and lots and lots of talking. But don’t tell that to...

The Transnational last month spoke with Christie Hicks, senior vice president of global sales for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide. Hicks discussed negotiated rates--saying they "are definitely going...

Low-cost carriers Frontier Airlines and AirTran Airways today announced a partnership to combine their reservations system and reward programs, the first agreement of its type among low-cost carriers.

MasterCard Worldwide and TRX Inc. on May 7 announced an agreement to develop a Web-based dashboard that will combine data from MasterCard's corporate card program, including electronic hotel folio data,...

Average daily U.S. hotel rates increased by 3.8 percent year over year in March, and occupancy increased by 6.1 percent to 61.4 percent bit.ly/eDW7jw , according to hospitality research firm STR. Luxury...

United Continental Holdings reported a $538 million second-quarter net profit bit.ly/p19B1S despite a 30 percent year-over-year increase in fuel costs on a pro-forma basis. Unit passenger revenue grew...