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April 2012
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Cover StoryA World Of Difference As business treks to the ends of the earth, will global travel policies stretch that far? Corporations have been trying to manage travel and entertainment expenses globally for about 20 years. While tremendous progress has been made implementing global supplier contracts, consolidating bookings through fewer travel management comp... |
Special ReportsMobile’s Disconnect It’s cost savings and security vs. traveler productivity, and the travel manager has a role to play. Employee use of mobile devices and applications has become so prevalent that it is causing some consternation in the IT management community. There are two basic concerns: security and costs.
Management consultants, softwar... |
Special ReportsWhat’s In The Cards? Just when you think your corporate card program is set, technology ushers in a brave new world. Sometimes it’s hard to imagine a time when there were no corporate cards, or for that matter, no credit cards at all. But the concept of a corporate credit card has been around for less than four decades, dating back to 1975. Since then, the ... |
Departments
Airport MonitorOrlando International For MCO, the Mouse is only part of the pictures these days. Here’s the essential thing you want to remember about Orlando International: flyers don’t change planes here a lot. Most of the traffic – in fact, 95 percent of it – at North America’s 13th busiest airport is flying to or from central Florida... |
Editor's NotesThe Out Box Whether You Travel Near Or Far, It’s Still A Long Way Home
The travel business continues to gain momentum; more tickets are being sold, more hotel rooms are being booked and more meetings planned. Despite the all the negative eco... |
Face TimeFace Time With Ron DiLeo ACTE’s executive director shares his take on global growth, gamification and the traveler in the center square. For over 20 years, the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) has worked to assemble a worldwide network of travel buyers and suppliers with the goal of providing educational initiatives and business intelligence to help participan... |
Going GlobalFocus On Prague The capital of the Czech Republic rings with a millennium of history and a distinctly modern vibe. The magical city of Prague with its bridges, cathedrals and gold-tipped towers, has been reflected in the Vltava River for more than ten centuries. Almost undamaged by WWII, its medieval center remains a wondrous mixture of cobbled lanes, wal... |
Managed Travel ROIThe Three Rs Getting RFPs, RFQs and RFIs that fit your program is the first step to the right supplier relationships. RFP, RFI and RFQ: The three Rs of sourcing. As you begin any sourcing initiatives within your company, you are bound to hear these acronyms tossed about by the sourcing professionals with whom you work. In some cases you might clearly underst... |
Speaking FreelyInsiders' Observations After a third property is de-flagged, an NYC hotel owner gives another side to the trend: “The decision to de-franchise our properties has two-fold benefits for both our company and the consumer. Our independent properties are free of ... |
Strategic Meeting ManagementBuying Power Meetings and transient travel are two different animals, and you need to know the difference to tame them both. The first – and most important – thing that travel managers and procurement officers must understand about strategic meetings management (SMM) is that the basic purchasing parameters for buying transient travel and meetings services are funda... |
Travel Buyer's FYIShort Subjects ‘Hacktivists’ Pose A Growing Threat To Data Security
‘Hacktivism’ – cyberhacking to advance political and social objectives – saw a dramatic rise in 2011, according to the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report... |
Association News
Pittsburgh BTA Panel Talks Trends And Forecasts For 2012 |
GBTA Makes 2013 Hotel RFP Available Now To Ease Transition |
INBTA Explores The Path Ahead, Discovers It’s All About ME |
GBTA, ITM Plan Symposium For Charity Travel Buyers |
Chicago’s Bear Necessities Receives $16,000 From CBTA |
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