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Concur, the travel-and-expense software company, has acquired Hipmunk, the travel metasearch company.
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The focus on using technology to improve business travel planning continues.
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CNNMoney asked two concierge services for high-flying business people what hotel bars they'd recommend in 5 major U.S. cities. Here are their favorite spots.
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When traveling on business it is always nice if you can include some fun as well as work to your routine.
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They don't plan as far in advance.
Via VERONICA LESTER
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You might find this interesting. Many studies are being done on the differences between men and women business travelers. https://hbr.org/video/4911700687001/men-spend-more-on-business-travel
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Smaller companies are not often blessed with large internal travel teams. The SME market, therefore, relies heavily on travel management companies (TMCs) for support and guidance. Martin Ferguson speaks to travel managers who spend less than £2 million annually on travel – and puts their questions to the TMCs Via Lauren Grant
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"From a distance, or without the right insight, TMC technology and processes could be regarded as similar across the supplier marketplace. But on closer inspection one will find that TMCs employ different types of people, possess differing corporate and cultural values, and have diverse standards in terms of quality of service. In any case, the customer has to choose a TMC that fits with their own organisational culture, while at the same time being very clear on their objectives, so work can be carried out effectively." This may be something to consider for personal service that is a fit.
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Two very different versions of the future of transportation — each with its own labor shortages looming — create quite a conundrum. Via Acquisti & Sostenibilità not-for-profit
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High speed rail is exciting. Look for this option in the near future.
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Delta gets high marks for customer satisfaction. The government is trying to discourage baggage fees. Things are changing all the time.
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Corporate travel policy exists to guide business travelers to make preferred travel decisions that limit their employer's expenses and ensure safety when o
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Companies have goals to save money and time, however, the traveler is a valuable asset to the company. Making the travel experience less painful is something to consider.
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And the older you are, the earlier you book.
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Booking in advance will save you money. Too far in advance will also be risky. Talking to travel agents with knowledge of best practices will help with these decisions.
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Business travel is not as glamorous as some people may believe. At least there is a way to take some of the pain out of planning. Let a professional do it for you.
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On Tuesday, United Airlines introduced a new "Basic Economy" fare designed to compet
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Customers missed the message. Read why they considered this nickel and dime.
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Travel Leaders' travel agency network provides personalized vacation packages, travel deals and travel services for business travel or leisure travel through our knowledgeable and professional travel agents.
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GTI Travel is a privately owned and operated Travel Agency focused on Business Travel. GTI Travel is one of the many members of Travel Leaders. Economies of scale and access to industry information are just a couple benefits you will enjoy when you work with us.
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IT innovation, global medicine and frustrated medical patients drive the demand for medical travel. But telemedicine also improves patient care and the customer experience of medical travelers. Once again, we welcome medical IT entrepreneur, Agha Ahmed, Managing Partner of GHIMBA, as we explore how IT innovations help patients get high-quality healthcare outside of the USA.
How do IT innovations help provide services that medical travelers can benefit from?
IT helps deliver safe medical care and a pleasant trip to facilities overseas. For more than 20 years, IT innovations have improved patient care worldwide. Now, these innovations are helping medical travelers, too.
How so?
In telemedicine and m-health, telecommunications, mobile devices and information technologies provide clinical health care at a distance. (M-health is the practice of using mobile technology in healthcare.) There are three important devices and software capabilities that help deliver the promise of medical travel:
These innovations work with participants in the medical travel industry to deliver value to patients and business opportunities to entrepreneurs.
What’s the most important thing that IT provides patients and entrepreneurs?
Powerful data sharing and analysis, anywhere in the world. Cloud computing and modern IT devices make it easy to transfer, analyze and share massive amounts of medical data, quickly and safely. IT contributes medical services that patients and overseas healthcare providers can be confident in. There are three notable capabilities.
Cloud computing and other IT innovations can help make offshore treatment a safe, cost-effective alternatives to U.S. healthcare. These innovations can be used with medical travel facilitators and solution providers to deliver world-class medical services.
Where can we find out more about IT and medical travel?
Telemedicine is a major topic in an upcoming conference, the Medical Travel and Global Healthcare Business Summit in Tampa, Florida. If you’re wondering about medical travel business opportunities, you’ll want to check out the conference, which will be held on June 14th through 17th. The summit is designed for healthcare and wellness providers, IT services business leaders, and hospital and clinic administrators.
The conference discusses business and technical aspects of medical travel, including how IT, telemedicine and m-health support travel logistics and patient care. The emphasis is on finding and making the most of the many business opportunities available to entrepreneurs and healthcare industry professionals. Via Technical Doctor
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Safety and Health are priority issues when travelers have business travel needs on a regular basis. Technology innovations contribute to the likelihood of a better outcome.
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As we reach the middle of the 21st century, half the population of the world will lose their job to a machine. Yes, this is another 'robots will take our jobs ' story. Via Jeff Domansky
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I have recently heard of robots helping with business travel. I still think that our travel consultants know the people they are helping. The agents have unique personalities and intuitive ways that I do not think a robot will duplicate. Robots will have their roles but will not replace the human touch.
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So once on the disruption is done, we won't have to worry about disruption anymore, will we?
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The consumer is unaware of how many booking brands are actually owned by larger OTAs, says the AH&LA. A full 75% of all third parties roll into Expedia, and 20% into Priceline.
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An interesting article. Impossible to gauge the accuracy of the statistics. The fraud amount of Online Travel amounts are staggering. There are an estimated 15 million fraudulent bookings a year,” Lugar said, “often with travelers showing up at a hotel only to find they have no reservations. It amounts to $1.3 billion in those kinds of bookings. Congress is considering further reviews.
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‘This study dispels the myth that booking direct with suppliers or spending hours online yourself gets you a better deal, or gives you a happier travel experience,’ said ASTA President and CEO Zane Kerby.
Data to support the value of using a professional travel agency instead of trying to do it yourself. You may want to take a look at your approach.
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Despite the many miserable prognoses for the future of the media business, a few stubborn entrepreneurs still see fit to venture into content-driven companies. Among the crop of new players in media is Skift, a 10-month-old travel publication that merges content with data services while targeting a crossover audience of business readers and consumers.
Skift, which is already among the top three or four online travel industry trade publications in a space that has lagged behind the times, today announced that it has raised an additional $1.1 million in seed funding, adding Advancit Capital, Ironfire Angel, Mesa+ and others to an investment roster headed up by New York’s Lerer Ventures. (Disclosure: Lerer Ventures is also an investor in PandoDaily.) The round brings Skift’s total funding to $1.5 million.
Skift was brought into the world by Rafat Ali, who founded paidContent in 2002 as one of the first blog media companies. He later sold paidContent to Guardian Media, which subsequently sold the blog to GigaOm in 2012. After a couple years’ respite since selling paidContent, Ali saw an opportunity in travel, the world’s biggest industry, noticing that the publications that covered the industry had not been subjected to the same waves of disruption that, say, the tech and finance media had.
Social and mobile, for instance, were still largely foreign concepts among travel industry publications, which include TTG, Travel Weekly, and Business Traveller, all of which are freighted with legacy baggage from their print magazine backgrounds....
Skift is an interesting company in the travel content and media business. You might want to know a bit about it.
I really liked this inside look at a new digital media startup. it really focused the conversation about transitioning from traditional to digital media and the revenue challenges and editorial overhead that will be a factor in the eventual success or failure of these new media.
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Airline fees are fueling carriers' profits: http://buswk.co/1lWjm2F
The extra fees are increasing all the time. So are your business travel options. Using professional travel management puts you in touch with agents who are informed and can help.
