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Milford, MA – October 22, 2012 – Atlas Travel has announced that Aaron Kelling will join the award-winning global travel management company as chief commercial officer, a newly created position responsible for assuring excellence across the entire Atlas Travel offering as the company implements strategic growth plans. “As Atlas Travel serves a growing audience globally, [...]

MILFORD, Mass. — July 16, 2012 — Atlas Travel has announced a corporate expansion plan with four key new hires, the creation of a Business Development/Account Management hub in the mid-lower Atlantic region and plans to expand into the Midwest.  The announcement comes just weeks after the hiring of Lea Cahill as the new COO [...]

MIAMI, May 29, 2012  – Amadeus, a leading travel technology partner and transaction processor for the global travel and tourism industry, announced today that Atlas Travel, a 26-year-old global travel management company serving more than 500 corporations worldwide and 15,000 vacation travelers, is the first to select the full suite of Amadeus One technology solutions [...]

MILFORD, Mass. — May 8, 2012 — Atlas Travel International is announcing that Lea Cahill, formerly with Amadeus, is now the Chief Operating Officer for the company.  Lea will be overseeing Atlas’ expansion into new areas, such as New York, and its soon-to-debut next generation technology platform, as just part of her planned 2012 programs. [...]

Irving, TX – February 27, 2012 – Selecting from their worldwide collection of hotels in addition to new member hotels, Genares will aggregate participating properties under the proprietary chain code BT to drive business travel sales to these hotels. Hotels located in primary and secondary business travel destinations will get outside sales and online marketing support [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]