UPCOMING EVENTS

Dec 03, 2008 11:30 AM to Dec 03, 2008 1:30 PM



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Feb 04, 2009 11:30 AM to Feb 04, 2009 2:00 PM
  
Travel News From Management.TRAVEL

Steven Rudnitsky was named the president and CEO of Dolce Hotels...


CTDs Develop Own Association
After nine months of preparation, an eleven-member steering committee of veteran travel managers officially birthed the Corporate Travel Department Association earlier this month...

Limited Visibility Creates Forecast Hodgepodge
Given the wide variance between business travel industry cost predictions for 2009, it will be interesting next year to assess which forecasters came closest. The latest...

Car Rental Firms' Woes Could Help Buyers On Rates
U.S. car rental firms are facing tough times as deteriorating business travel demand and rising fleet costs are dragging down financial performance. To survive difficult...

5Q With CWT's Neysa Silver
Carlson Wagonlit Travel director of hotel solutions Neysa Silver spoke with Management.travel last week about the latest on the 2009 hotel rate negotiation season. A portion of...

Sabre Travel Network and United Airlines signed a two-year extension for their existing "full-content" distribution agreement...


Canada's Competition Bureau now allows banks to simultaneously issue both MasterCard- and Visa-branded cards or process such transactions...


The U.S. Department of Transportation is accepting public comment on a notice of proposed rulemaking related to a series of air consumer protections...


Southwest Airlines submitted a $7.5 million bid to assume ATA Airlines' rights to operate at New York-LaGuardia...


Amadeus executive vice president David Jones will replace José Antonio Tazón as president and CEO on Jan. 1...


Delta Air Lines and Alaska Air Group now are "preferred alliance partners on the West Coast...


Sabre Travel Network in 2009 will enable "attribute-based" fare shopping to help travel agents and consumers access the airlines' "optional charges...


American Airlines customers at select airports now can use mobile devices to receive and display electronic boarding passes for domestic flights...


Total U.S. travel agency sales in October dropped by more than 11 percent versus a year earlier on 15 percent fewer transactions...


Continental Shrinks Carry-On Max To Industry Minimum
Continental Airlines this month reduced the size of allowable carry-on items from 51 linear inches (length plus height plus width) to 45 linear inches or 115 centimeters, matching...

5Q With ATA's Sharon Pinkerton
Air Transport Association vice president of government affairs Sharon Pinkerton spoke at a recent New York City Business Travel Association meeting, providing ATA's views on...

Travel Companies Detail Layoffs
Nationwide job cuts soared to the highest level in nearly five years in October as employers announced plans to slash 112,884 workers from payrolls, according to outplacement firm...

Lodging Metrics Darken As Buyers Demand Better 2009 Offers
PKF Hospitality Research revised downward its 2009 U.S. hotel forecast, first released a month ago, citing "the gravitational pull on the national economy resulting from the...

5Q With Continental Airlines' Larry Kellner
Continental Airlines chairman and CEO Larry Kellner last week spoke with financial analysts after the company posted a $236 million third-quarter loss, dragged down by a $606...

Analysts Forecast Further Lodging Demand Erosion
Demand for U.S. hotel rooms is projected to contract in 2008 and 2009, resulting in lower growth rates for occupancy, average daily rate and revenue per available room compared...
  

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