CWT To Go TM, Carlson Wagonlit Travel's (CWT) mobile app, won this year's Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) award for innovation of the year in the category of "Outstanding apps." This category includes applications that help business travelers make best use of their time while traveling. Travelers voted for their favorite products and CWT To Go was the winning app from a shortlist of eleven nominees.
BOSTON, July 2, 2012 - Continuing its "Celebration with Intention" approach to client events, which began with a national award-winning event at Sports Authority Field in Denver during GBTA's 2011 Convention, Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), a global leader specialized in managing business travel and meetings and events, will again focus its GBTA event this year around a greater purpose designed to create meaningful attendee connections. CWT selected Boston-based Project STEP as the beneficiary of this year's event, which will be held the evening of July 24 at Boston's Symphony Hall.
TRX, Inc. (www.trx.com) (OTCQB: TRXI), a global leader in travel data and technology, today announced the release of HNN 2.0, the latest version of TRX's Hotel Name Normalization (HNN) solution software for TRAVELTRAX®, TRX's business intelligence solution. HNN 2.0 improves hotel property normalization by 90 percent on previously missed matches by using the latest advances in machine learning and natural language processing through a more sophisticated mathematical algorithm. With improved logic and reliability, Version 2.0 provides travel managers faster results with an even better representation of overall and detailed hotel activity and spend, including supplier spend and corporate rate integrity.
Smorgie.com is launching our new self branded concierge restaurant recommendation product and we're looking for up to twenty beta users. We are taking the three-ring recommendation binder and putting it online for easier organization, up to date recommendations, personalized information and making sharing with guests more convenient.
Vantage Hospitality Group wrapped up its 12th annual International Educational Conference & Trade Show last week by handing out its prestigious Best of the Best awards to Americas Best Value Inn/Canadas Best Value Inn members, and Lexcellence awards to Lexington Collection members during the gala dinner and awards banquet at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
The Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship – is the centre for business incubation and development at the Ecole hôtelière de Lausanne, Switzerland (EHL). Acting as the hub facilitating knowledge exchange between EHL and the international hospitality industry, INTEHL offers a range of services adapted to the needs of each of its various clients (market research, new product development, company start-up incubation, meeting organization).
Americas Best Value Inn® today announced a partnership with trucker-friendly website Hotels4Truckers.com, as site members can save up to 12 percent on room reservations at nearly 200 participating ABVI locations across the United States. “This is an exciting opportunity, partnering with such an innovative concept that looks out for the best interests of truck drivers.
TRX, Inc. (www.trx.com) (OTCQB: TRXI), a world-leading provider of travel technology, process automation, consulting and data services, announced the addition of new services to its industry leading Hotel Spend Management services with the inclusion of RFP sourcing, GDS availability, and auditing. Offered in conjunction with technology partner, Lanyon, Inc., a leading provider of content management and spend management solutions to the hospitality industry, the expanded services complement TRX's existing strategy study, spend analysis, and reporting services to provide corporate travel managers a complete solution for managing hotel spend.
StarCite, Inc., the leading provider of web-based solutions to strategically manage corporate meetings and events, today announced the launch of a powerful new Business Intelligence Suite for hotels and meetings suppliers. The new offering dramatically increases the level of in-depth sales knowledge hotels can glean from their meetings activity within the StarCite Marketplace – enabling companies to make better sales decisions and ultimately win more meetings business.
TRX, Inc., a world-leading provider of travel technology, process automation, consulting and data services, announced continued success in providing its data intelligence solution to several leading companies in the pharmaceutical, technology, financial services, travel, and consulting industries seeking better ways to manage their travel and procurement reporting needs.
TRX, Inc., a world-leading provider of travel technology, process automation, consulting and data services, today announced enhancements to TRX's expense solution, TRUEXPENSE®. The enhancements include improved user communication tools, corporate compliance with new regulatory requirements, and updates to the user interface which further streamline the expense management process for the user.
TRX, Inc., a world-leading provider of travel technology, process automation, consulting and data services, today announced the introduction of TRAVELINXSM, a new itinerary management solution designed specifically to meet the travel needs of business travelers while providing a corporate level security environment for traveler information.
TRX, Inc., a world-leading provider of travel technology, process automation, consulting and data services, today announced new enhancements to its online booking solution, RESX®, designed to enhance user experience during the booking process and increase travel policy compliance.
In the latest expansion of its rapidly-growing mobile suite of services, StarCite today announced the launch of a new mobile solution for suppliers that will allow hotel sales forces to review, monitor and quickly act on meetings leads via smartphone.
In the field of travel and expense management automation, new technology is central to generating increased ROI for client companies. The management and automatic linking of receipts, whether scanned or faxed, to specific expense reports in automated expense management systems has gained significant acceptance as it helps to maintain a paperless environment and further streamline the traditional processes associated with the submission of expense receipts.
JTB Americas, a leading provider of global travel management services for business and leisure customers, is pleased to join StarCite in announcing entry into a global alliance partnership. JTB Americas will use StarCite's meetings management technology to service its robust business of corporate, leisure, sports and academic clientele, and will launch meetings booking portals powered by StarCite. The proposed JTB Americas-StarCite Partnership will also help broaden meetings management and technology services for suppliers within the Asia-Pacific Region.
An industry-leading blog, www.dialoguesondutyofcare.com launched recently by International SOS, brings together a wide range of travel management, human resources, legal and security experts around the topic of Duty of Care: a company's obligation to protect its employees from risks. The online platform, which will feature posts by International SOS experts as well as a variety of guest authors, offers visitors a unique perspective on the constantly evolving challenges faced by organizations with employees who travel , and how companies are meetings these challenges with innovative solutions.
American Express Global Business Travel today announced the launch of Mobile Communications Management (MCM), a dynamic, visual traveler tracking and integrated two-way messaging solution. This new capability can assist companies in promptly locating employee travelers and communicating to them on the spot to offer direct assistance in times of travel disruption. MCM also offers the added benefit of continuously monitoring and mapping major travel disruptions such as weather systems, strikes or other events to help with contingency planning before events take place. American Express Global Business Travel selected technology provider Charter Solutions to provide their patent-pending dynamic mapping functionality with our solution.
In response to increased emphasis by corporations on reducing security and reputational risk, BCD Travel, the third-largest corporate travel management company worldwide, announces a comprehensive Travel Risk Management solution that draws on technological advances and a personalized approach to help companies drastically reduce risk for travelers.
NC4, Inc. (GBTA booth #575), an innovator in travel risk management solutions, is introducing Global Insights to travel managers at the Global Business Traveler's Association (GBTA) Convention in Denver. Global Insights is the newest addition to NC4's ActivTravel, a travel risk management solution that combines travel intelligence, traveler tracking and real-time threat alerting to provide travel managers a 360° view of a corporation's travel risk exposure.