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Genares™ Sees Significant Increase in Reservations via Mobile Booking Tool

Irving, TX – February 21, 2012 – Genares™ mobile bookings among customer hotels increased an astounding 1600% from 2010 to 2011, with an increase in mobile bookings among nearly all of the hotel properties using their mobile booking services. Released in Q4 2010, Genares started with a small group of properties using the mobile solution.  [...]

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Travel Experts Records 12% Sales Growth and More Than 27 Industry Awards: Initiates First of Annual Travel Experts Diamond Awards Program

RALEIGH, NC – February 20, 2012 –Travel Experts has increased their sales by 12% in 2011 over 2010.  Susan Ferrell, president of Travel Experts, Inc. said, “We have the highest quality of professionals on our team who enjoy the concierge-level services that we provide to take care of their ancillary needs so they can focus [...]

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Atlas Travel International is Rewriting the Way Companies Think About Travel with Two Key New Hires: Expanding into New York Area with New Traveler Experience Approach

MILFORD, Mass. — January 31, 2012 — “New York companies need to know that there is a significant service and savings difference with Atlas Travel,” said Greg Martin, the New York sales director recently hired by the Massachusetts-based travel management company.  “A decade of mergers and acquisitions has deprived theNew York area of many respected [...]

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Vail Resorts Hospitality Selects Genares™ for their Global Distribution Platform

Irving, TX – January 17, 2012 – Genares Worldwide Reservation Services announced today that Vail Resorts Hospitality has chosen the Genares platform to manage its hotel room inventory across all global distribution systems. Genares services deliver the lowest cost of sale channel for hoteliers and the latest mobile booking tools for travelers. “We are very [...]

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“Wine and Food Pairing for Business Entertaining” Kicks off New Business Assessment Program: Downtown Event to Attract 100 Business Owners with $2 Million Plus Revenue

Chicago , IL – December 28, 2011 – Ten area business leaders are working together to provide complimentary, multi-disciplinary business assessments to Illinois businesses.  The kick off “Wine and Food Pairings for Business Entertaining” event will be hosted at Rhapsody Restaurant and the event organizers include: Chicagoland Commercial Real Estate Fuksa Khorshid, LLC – Legal [...]

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Genares™ Releases New Group Blocks Feature

Irving, TX – December 20, 2011 – Hotels can now book group room blocks via their website or call center with the new Genares™ Group Blocks capabilities.  “It’s an important step we took to ensure our services fully meet customer needs,” said Debra Taube, senior vice president of development for Genares. “We listened and studied [...]

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Short’s Bookit Tool Embraces Renegade Traveler Behavior: Travelers Use the Sites they Love, Companies Keep the Control they Need

Waterloo, IA – December 6, 2011 – A recent Short’s Travel Management study showed that 64.9% of business travelers research their travel options on consumer sites prior to booking with Short’s.  The “Bookit” tool allows the business traveler to search for a flight across multiple travel websites in the office or while mobile, and then [...]

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b-hivetravel.com’s Bookit Tool Called “Pure Genius”: Speeds Mobile and Desktop Bookings for Corporate

Waterloo, IA – December 6, 2011 – “Bookit allows a corporate traveler to search for airfares on any site, then email the selected flights to Short’s for booking and en-route servicing.  Completely automated.  Fast results. Pure genius,” wrote travel industry expert Scott Gillespie in his Gillespie’s Guide to Travel+Procurement last week.  http://gillespie411.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/shorts-book-it-a-brilliant-booking-breakthrough/#more-1823  Bookit works with [...]

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Personal Reasons Guide Seaward Travels Toward Working with Local Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure®: “Cruise2Cure” Will Donate All Proceeds To Breast Cancer Research

Orlando, FL – November 28, 2011 – For Michael Schad, President of Seaward Travels, the choice to work with a local affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure and to help fund the research that will find a cure for breast cancer, was very personal.  His aunt, Sharon Layne, was diagnosed with the disease [...]

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b-hivetravel.com™ Built to Manage $20.6 Billion In Unmanaged Business Travel Spend: Free Business Travel Management Tool Provides $52 Average Savings per Air Ticket and Access to Vital Cost Analysis Information

Waterloo, IA – November 8, 2011 – b-hivetravel.com estimates that more than 190,000 companies have travel spend of $500,000 in airfare alone, totaling $20.6 billion in air sales.  The business problem is that most of these travel expenses are unmanaged and b-hivetravel.com addresses that issue. “Other websites are designed for the everyday leisure traveler, but [...]

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