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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Waterloo, IA – November 8, 2011 – Short’s Travel Management’s new Short’s Travel Online (STO) 3.0 is a dramatically revamped version of their travel management tool. “The new tool is more user-friendly and adaptable to any work environment,” said David LeCompte, president of Short’s Travel Management. “With STO 3.0, corporate travelers will be able to [...]
Medfield, Massachusetts – October 25, 2011 – A snapshot view of $4 billion in travel spend helps companies instantly view trends to decide if they are getting the best deal for their travel spend. Now available for the iPad, iStats is the scaled version of the Travel GPA Report Card Industry Stats providing benchmarked spend [...]
Orlando, FL – October 18, 2011 – October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month and organizations around the country are raising money to fight the illness that affects the lives of one in eight women in the United States. Recent statistics show that nearly 40,000 women die from breast cancer each year. One travel company, [...]
Portland, OR – September 12, 2011 – Ya’lla Tours USA is making traveling to Egypt more affordable, but without sacrificing the luxury and quality that have made them so well-respected among tour operators. They are introducing two new tour packages with prices that make traveling to Egypt for that dream vacation easier than ever and [...]
Orlando, FL – September 7, 2011 – Booking a cruise vacation is a real investment in both time and money and there are many things that vacationers are not aware that they should be doing before they make reservations. Keeping these key concepts in mind will make the vacation affordable and much more enjoyable. 1. [...]
September 6, 2011 – Milford, Massachusetts – Maureen Santoro, CMP, Manager of Group Operations for Atlas Travel International’s Group Meetings and Incentives division, has joined the Fairmont, Raffles, and Swiss Hotels Incentive Customer Advisory Board. The Board is made up of approximately twenty high level executives from the top meeting and incentive companies in the [...]
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