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June 2013
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Cover StoryChina Fast Forward Business travel is growing in the Asian giant, and the art of corporate travel management is gaining traction. China business travel spending is forecast to increase 21 percent to $245 billion in 2013 and is poised to overtake the US as the world’s largest business travel market by as early as 2015. That means having the biggest economy, the largest t... |
Special ReportsHappy Medium Somewhere between Upscale and Economy, hotel options are getting more varied. Where do they fit in your program? Sometimes you can’t tell the players without a program and in travel procurement, you might need a cheat sheet to keep up with hotel development. Over the years, hotel chains have developed a myriad of brands to complement their signature ful... |
Special ReportsHidden Liabilities The best way to handle unseen risks is to seek them out and have a plan to deal with them. Uttering the word “liability” can strike fear into the hearts of many folks, including the most seasoned travel managers. Most companies work vigilantly with legal departments to ensure they do not incur liabilities within their travel risk m... |
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Airport MonitorFrankfurt Airport This mighty German hub is all business, with global connections more plentiful than ever. In an era in which Euroangst is all but endemic, Germany remains a rock, an economic bulwark that exhibits scant signs of erosion. That’s why it’s no surprise the country’s prime airportal is thriving. While London Heathrow languishes because... |
Editor's NotesGreen Shoots As the spring slips into summer, the growing season is upon us. The grass needs to be mowed every other day, the azaleas are a riot of color and even the weeds seem somehow more lush. Maybe all that green has something to do with the preparat... |
Industry ProfileUpping The Ground Game Technology is changing how car services are delivered, and GroundLink is leading the way. Hampered by high fuel prices, falling corporate revenues and a domestic recession, the market for ground transportation has remained stagnant for years. But a turnaround in the $11 billion industry is afoot, being fueled by the rollout of tec... |
Managed Travel ROILeveraging Traveler Experience Is open booking really the best way to get the most out of your road warrior’s wisdom? For the past fifty years there have been certain truths in corporate travel. One is that travelers will do whatever they can to spend more of their employer’s money. Another is that the best thing a company can do is move toward centralizing ... |
Strategic Meeting ManagementWho Knows What? To aggregate and analyze the vast data from an organization’s meetings and events is a struggle. But hope is on the horizon. It’s one thing to say you want to collect meeting spend data and use it to make the planning and purchasing processes more efficient. Yet, it’s another thing entirely to actually accomplish that, because it is never quite as simple or easy as... |
Tech FilesTech Files Marriott Premieres Red Coat Direct Meetings App
Marriott Hotels has introduced Red Coat Direct, a new app that allows meeting organizers to adjust and edit their meeting requests and preferences without ever leaving the m... |
Travel Buyer's FYIShort Subjects Fulfilling Purpose
Two-thirds of US corporate executives and even more rank-and-file employees (68 percent) believe that businesses are not doing enough to instill a positive sense of purpose in their corporate cult... |
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