According to a new poll, most travelers agree that traveling sustainably is important, but many may feel it's easier said than done. AIG Travel, a worldwide leader in travel insurance and assistance services, today released the results of its latest Pulse Poll on sustainable travel, which received more than 1,500 responses from travelers and followers of the brand.
Atlas Travel & Technology Group, an award-winning, full-service travel and meetings management company, has announced today its partnership with The Lisa Colagrossi Foundation (TLCF) at the 2016 Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Convention in Denver. The partnership is a strategic match for Atlas as TLCF is a registered 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to creating awareness and education for the signs, symptoms and risk factors for brain aneurysms, which disproportionately affect women 3:2 in the U.S.
Meetings and event coordinators at corporations must prove that event costs do not outweigh the meaningful value of face-to-face conversation. That's exactly why Delta Air Lines is launching Delta Edge Meetings – to save companies money and time, while providing detailed reports on the program's value.
Christopherson Business Travel is launching a number of technology enhancements in conjunction with an initiative to advance their integrated software platform, AirPortal®, to a new level of travel management. By providing business intelligence that is digitally transformed into actions, these enhancements help travel managers direct their programs both proactively and preemptively.
The BCD Travel Foundation, the giving arm of BCD Travel, will provide $750,000 in operating expenses over the next five years to help fund L'Ecole de Choix—"The School of Choice"— a private, non-profit elementary school in Mirebalais, Haiti. The funds will be raised by employee-led fundraising efforts and matching contributions from BCD Travel and its private owner.
Supporting GBTA for more than a decade, POTHOS will again be bringing its award winning meeting and event management solutions for the expo attendees to consider. The company’s hallmark is experiential & value service. Experts in strategic management; procurement, culinary & educational experience, POTHOS has staff with CMM, CMP and Educational Certifications and Degrees.
Deep Blue Communications announced today the release of their latest product MyDeepBlue Dashboard for hotels, large indoor / outdoor venues, amusement parks and conference centers across the country. The MyDeepBlue dashboard tool provides a single interface for data on network uptime, bandwidth utilization, room and device status, speed test results and more. The product will be showcased at HITECH 2016 at the Deep Blue Booth # 1517.
The Puerto Rico Tourism Company (PRTC) has maintained close contact with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on the ground in Puerto Rico to communicate Zika facts to the public. Now, PRTC and the Puerto Rico Hotel & Tourism Association (PRHTA) have collaborated to implement precautionary measures in hotels to alleviate Zika concerns of travellers preparing to visit one of the summer's top getaway destinations.
FREMONT, CA – Eleven, the leading hospitality technology provider, is proud to announce that it has been recognized among 20 Most Promising Wireless Solution Providers 2016 by CIOReview.
The UNWTO predicts the Indian outbound travel market will account for 50 million tourists by 2020, and its total outbound spending is expected to cross the US$28 billion mark. This, coupled with the country's new generation of middle class tourists, set to grow even further, makes it a potential tourist goldmine for thousands of destinations and travel businesses.
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HeBS Digital is excited to announce the launch of the new Rooms Showcase Module. The newest addition to the award-winning smartCMS, the module allows the hotelier to seamlessly improve the user experience and encourage conversions by creating a rich media "storefront" for the property's accommodations.
ORLANDO, Fla. – A new "playbook" available to GBTA Convention 2015 attendees helps travel managers influence the spending decisions of their travelers. Up your game: Build a social community of travelers explains the value of building a social community among business travelers and shows how to create a shared sense of purpose to influence them.
FCm Travel Solutions, one of the world's leading corporate travel and expense management consultancies, is partnering with TripIt® from Concur®, the world's highest-rated travel-organizing app, in roll-out of its new "TripIt for TMCs" program. This new program will allow for an enhanced integration of trip data between FCm and TripIt; making it easier for travelers using TripIt to contact FCm in the event of a trip disruption or issue.
As threats to global travelers increase in countries throughout the world, Global Rescue has developed an app to help keep travelers safe and support enterprises in meeting their legal Duty of Care responsibilities. The Global Rescue app puts critical medical, security and other essential real-time travel intelligence at travelers' fingertips. In an emergency, the app also puts travelers in immediate contact with Global Rescue's medical and security teams which are comprised of the paramedics, physicians and military special operations veterans who staff the company's global operations centers.
EVA Air focuses on quality service and safety with extra emphasis on passenger comfort and convenience for business and leisure travel. It has more flights from North America to Taipei with more one-stop connections throughout Asia than any other airline.
Global Hospitality Services are leading the way when it comes to expertise of hotel systems, with an innovative approach to developing partnering hotel's sales reach, and first-of-their-kind white label services.
Anvil, the globally renowned travel risk management company, will unveil its latest travel safety application at the GBTA Convention in Orlando later this month. Entitled TRIS (Threat and Risk Intelligence Service), the ground-breaking new tool will enable corporations to provide an unparalleled level of employee safety and asset protection.
At a recent press conference, Hotel Schani Wien and hetras, plus a number of selected project partners, presented a new hotel room-booking system to the world. As of now, Hotel Schani Wien guests have complete free reign and can select rooms by floor, the direction it faces and its view for themselves. This SMART solution is yet another trend-setting innovation that puts Hotel Schani Wien at the forefront of modern hotel design.
Booking.com today partners with more than 600,000 accommodation providers to offer travelers around the world the best places to stay for every budget. Now with the launch of BookingSuite, Booking.com is extending its distribution expertise to accommodation providers so they can more effectively grow their businesses and brands.