Supplier News

Onity Pilots New Mobile Room Key in Chicago Hotel

Onity announced today that they are part of a trial program of the hospitality industry's first mobile-based front desk bypass solution that provides guests with the option to use their cell phone as a mobile room key. Onity, one of the world's leading providers of electronic locking solutions, is a business of UTC Fire & Security, a unit of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE:UTX).

The Bed Bugs Aren’t Biting Meetings Planners

The Knowland Group, the world's largest data firm in the global meetings and conventions industry, today released a survey on meeting planners' reactions to the recent outbreak of bed bugs across America. Meeting planners routinely schedule events at hotels, which include the use of meeting space and multiple hotel rooms. The survey found that a minority of planners are concerned about bed bugs, instead focused on cost and location of an event in this tough economy.

GroundLink’s free WiFi services now available on the ground & in the air on over 3000 daily flights with Gogo partnership

Beginning today, the easiest and most affordable way for travelers to arrange ground transportation from the airport might be in the air, from the comfort of their seat at 30,000 feet. Aircell, the world’s leading provider of inflight connectivity, has partnered with GroundLink, the world’s largest marketplace for all forms of ground travel services, to enable passengers to book ground transportation while in flight through Aircell’s Gogo® Inflight Internet. Aside from excellent vehicles and prices that in some cases are less than a local taxi company, GroundLink, through its LimoRes retail brand, will give a free Gogo Inflight Internet session to any passenger that books a car from the sky. The “WiFi and Drive” package is now available across the Gogo network of airlines.

NC4 Introduces ActivTravel™ to Travel Managers at NBTA, Booth #312

NC4, Inc. (booth #312), the leader in Situational Readiness solutions for risk management, is introducing ActivTravel™ to travel managers at the International National Business Traveler’s Association (NBTA) Convention this week in Houston. ActivTravel is NC4’s travel risk management offering that combines travel intelligence, traveler tracking and real-time threat alerting to provide travel managers a 360 degree view of a corporation’s travel risk exposure.

Carlson Wagonlit Travel Partners with Rearden Commerce

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT), a global leader specializing in business travel management, has signed a reseller agreement with Rearden Commerce to offer clients the CWT Traveler Assistant powered by the Rearden Commerce™ Platform, an end-to-end solution for booking and managing travel and related business services. The announcement was made at the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) International Convention & Exposition being held here August 8-11.

DATABASICS and Cornerstone to Deliver Travel Procurement and Expense Management Suite

DATABASICS and Cornerstone Information Systems today announced the integration of DATABASICS’ Expense Reporting with Cornerstone’s iBank data management platform. The DATABASICS-Cornerstone integration will help businesses better manage travel spend by broadening the range of reservation activity available for automated reconciliation and processing with the final expenses submitted by travelers.