Members of the United Kingdom's Guild of Travel Management Companies collectively handled more air transactions in the third quarter of 2010 than in the same period in 2008

. Claiming to account for 80 percent of business travel expenditures in the United Kingdom, GTMC also reportedyear-over-year growth in total transactions for air (12 percent) hotel (10 percent, marking the first such double-digit percentage increase since the first quarter of 2008), car rental (10 percent) and rail (7 percent).