The World
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Travel Category Management: A Continuous Process At First Data
… accounts payable and audit "to make sure they saw the benefits of the processes that we were putting in place around the world ." The strategy also called for one expense reporting system aligned globally with First Data's enterprise resource …
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Crossing Borders: BTN Research Explores Nuances In European Travel Management Practices
… t prioritize as highly personal relationships and small talk. Spain remains a market slowly opening up to the rest of the world , but still is on its own timetable: doing business is more common in the evening than in the afternoon. In Russia …
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Hotel Booking Tools, Risks Have Buyers Eyeing Science Of Compliance
… said Hyatt senior vice president of sales Jack Horne. "I think the frustration they have is with counterparts around the world who are now traveling more often to North America and are not staying in preferred properties. That's where I see a …
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Perspective: The Newest Dinosaur?
… extinction? Absolutely. It is the concept from which this industry grew strong and developed into a crucial element in the world economy. And, while travel trade associations have an obligation to protect the requirements of their unique constituents …
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TMCs Voice Concerns On London Heathrow Border Control Delays
… travel passengers, supposedly to speed things up, is a joke and makes absolutely no difference.” Heathrow remains the world ’s busiest for international air traffic (93 percent of its 69.4 million arrivals in 2011 were non-domestic …
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Pegasus: March Global GDS Hotel Bookings Decrease While Rates Increase
… when year-over-year bookings were up 25 percent globally, 20 percent in North America and 32 percent in the rest of the world . Economic uncertainty also is causing more scrutiny and prioritization of business travel, according to Pegasus. Even …
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Expedia and Amadeus agreed to a multi-year content and technology agreement for North America
… existing global relationship with Amadeus allows us to further diversify our GDS relationships as we continue to grow around the world ," according to Greg Schulze, senior vice president for global tour and transport at Expedia. Expedia also has relationships …
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2012 SME Report: For Travel Supplier Discounts, SMEs Won't Wait For The Phone To Ring
… the carriers," said United Airlines senior vice president of sales Dave Hilfman. "We have over 850 salespeople in the world , but you can only get to so many. The Holy Grail is always that unmanaged piece. You'd love to be able to get them …
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U.S. Bank said it began issuing to U.S.-based corporate customers new cards with both a magnetic stripe and chip technology.
The Global EMV commercial cards ensure that "purchases can be conveniently processed around the world ," according to the company. The dual technology cards are offered as an option for most corporate payment accounts, but are …
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BTN's 2012 Corporate Travel Index
… Business Travel News Corporate Travel Index, an annual effort to establish business travel per diems for 200 cities around the world , illustrates the tentative recovery experienced in 2011 by the industry. Hotel and food prices throughout all global …
