Monthly Archives: April 2012

Travel Managers Out of Touch on Key Trends, Study Finds

Travel managers are trying to keep up with changes in technology and travel preferences, but travelers have taken the lead. Just how commanding a lead depends on how quickly travel managers adapt to change.

That’s according to Jon Wohlfert, executive vice president of sales for Extended Stay Hotels. This week Wohlfert presented a preview of a white paper from Extended Stay Hotels, due out next month, at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives Global Education Conference in San Francisco.

Travel managers are missing key trends, he said.

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What Is the Role of the TMC Today?

With advances in internet technology and a proliferation of direct booking options leading to more buyers tackling their travel business alone, how is thTMC‘s role changing? Bob Papworth investigates 

THERE ARE THOSE – mercifully few – in the travel management sector who espouse the vexatious conceit that reconditeness has the capacity to be discerned as being emblematic of perspicacity.

Or to put it another way, there are more than a few Powerpointed plonkers out there who think long words and buzz-phrases make them look smarter than the average Joe.

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Google to Outline Business Travel Strategy

Google will be outlining its plans for the business travel market during a speech to the bosses of the UK’s leading TMCs.

Scott Field, who is the search engine’s head of online travel for the UK and Ireland, will be one of the keynote speakers at the GTMC overseas conference in Doha in May.

The conference is being given the theme of “Drivers of Change” and Field will be explaining Google’s strategy following its purchase of ITA Software last year and the launch of Flight Search and Hotel Finder services

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