| Concur Technologies' Steve Singh & Tom DePasquale Named to ... | | Posted Friday, February 02, 2007 12:48:37 PM by Blog57 Team | | REDMOND, Wash., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Concur Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: CNQR - News), the world's leading provider of on-demand business services that automate Corporate Expense Management (CEM), today announced that company chairman and CEO, Steve Singh, and executive vice president, product & services strategy, Tom DePasquale, have been named among the 25 most influential executives in the business travel industry by Business Travel News, a leading trade publication for corporate travel buyers. Both Singh and DePasquale were acknowledged for being the first to provide the travel industry with an on-demand solution that integrates corporate travel procurement and expense reporting into a single, end-to-end process. Concur's end-to-end travel and expense management service streamlines the travel booking and meeting planning processes, drastically accelerates expense reimbursements and helps manage spend before it occurs, increasing compliance and strengthening internal controls while providing organizations with the valuable T&E expense data they need to control costs.... | |
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| | | Worldspan Trip Manager(R) XE Fare Enhancement Gives Corporate Customers More Control Over Travel Policy | | Posted Friday, January 26, 2007 2:48:52 PM by Blog57 Team | | Global travel technology provider Worldspan, L.P. has added another cost-saving enhancement to its leading online self-booking tool, Worldspan Trip Manager XE. A new variance tool gives corporate travel administrators expanded features that set spending limits and enforce travel policy while business travelers are booking flights online. The variance tool provides an added flight policy option to better manage compliance with unique travel policies. Trip Manager XE already enabled travel administrators to establish maximum airfare policies; however, the new tool lets them set different parameters based on either a dollar amount or a percentage over the lowest available airfare. If a business traveler books a flight with a greater variance than what the settings allow, the booking is flagged.... | |
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| | | Post Comment Travel cost: A budget item, and public record | | Posted Wednesday, December 27, 2006 2:49:05 PM by Blog57 Team | | The latest tiff between the Jackson City Council and Mayor Frank Melton over Melton's "threat" to "expose" Council members' travel expenses would be preposterous if it weren't for Melton's history of withholding public records. Melton is apparently still smarting over The Clarion-Ledger's last summer seeking travel expense records for him and his bodyguards to the Bahamas. He said when the records were requested that his own money was used and it was nobody's business. However, records obtained by The Clarion-Ledger showed that the city paid $1,842 for plane tickets for Melton and the two guards. The big issue then was not if the city was paying travel expenses for Melton's bodyguards, but why Melton needed two bodyguards and if their expense was worth what the taxpayers were paying.... | |
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| | | Medical,Business,Travel,Law | | Posted Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:48:38 PM by Blog57 Team | | ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The American people trust pharmacists. That's the conclusion of a new USA TODAY/Gallup poll that found 73 percent of those surveyed rank druggists/pharmacists "very high" or "high" in terms of honesty and ethics. The top three ranked professions in the latest poll were nurses, druggists/pharmacists and veterinarians. Pharmacists have been in one of the top three spots since 1989. Each year, Gallup measures honesty and ethics for 14 newsworthy occupations. Additional occupations are included on a rotating basis. The percentage of people who ranked pharmacists highly has increased since 1999. The bottom three occupations in 2006 were car salespeople, advertising practitioners, and HMO managers. "Pharmacists continue to be among the most trusted and accessible health care professionals," said Bruce Roberts, RPh, executive vice president and CEO of the National Community Pharmacists Association (NCPA).... | |
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| | | Hilton creates Food Network travel package | | Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 2:49:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | Hilton Hotels and the Food Network have partnered to offer the "Food Network Travel Package" at 11 Hilton hotels throughout the country starting this week, Hilton said Monday. With the package, guests can experience a customized, regionally inspired four-course tasting menu created by the hotel's executive chef, and guests of legal drinking age can enjoy wine pairings chosen by the hotel's wine steward. Guests will also receive a Food Network welcome package including a Food Network tote, cookbook, restaurant guide, and a Food Network DVD of travel shows. Cost of the package was not released. Guests will also be offered complementary in-room programming created by Food Network. The package is available at The New York Hilton in New York; The Beverly Hilton and Hilton Costa Mesa in Los Angeles; Hilton Chicago in Chicago; Hilton San Francisco in San Francisco; Hilton Hawaiian Village (Oahu) in Honolulu; Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans; Hilton Austin in Austin; Hilton Atlanta in Atlanta; Hilton Back Bay in Boston; and Hilton Sedona in Arizona.... | |
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| | | Business travel seen as flat this year, up in'07 | | Posted Monday, November 13, 2006 12:52:15 PM by Blog57 Team | | Business travel in the United States will remain unchanged this year from last but should improve slightly in 2007, an industry expert said Thursday during a teleconference on forecasts for travel and tourism. Putting a damper on trips for business are slower growth in corporate profits, rising travel costs and technological alternatives such as videoconferencing, said Suzanne Cook, senior researcher for the Travel Industry Association. Joining Cook in the national session on industry trends was Sandra Hughes, vice president of AAA Travel. Cook said her nonprofit trade group believes the constraints on business travel will be short-term. "Our forecast is that business travel will basically be flat this year and up 1 to 2 percent in 2007," she said. The nation's economy has entered a slowdown since recovering from the 2001 terrorist attacks.... | |
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| | | Best fares: Travel to Europe in business class | | Posted Sunday, November 12, 2006 10:48:36 AM by Blog57 Team | | If you'd like to fly to Europe in style, we have some deals that could put business class within reach. The comfortable seats, free drinks and mileage bonuses on many carriers make business class especially enticing on long-distance flights. For travel throughout winter, take advantage of MAXjet's $999 round-trip business class fares from Las Vegas or Washington, D.C., to London Stansted. The price includes taxes and fees. Travel through March 15. MAXjet is an all-business-class carrier that began service late last year with flights between New York and London. MAXjet flights to and from Washington are available Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and flights to and from Las Vegas are available Monday and Thursday. Use promotion code EXTSALE for this offer.... | |
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| | | Virgin Galactic: Anatomy of a Business Model | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 6:50:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | LAS CRUCES, New Mexico - For Virgin Galactic--the passenger-carrying spaceliner company--plans are rapidly taking shape to offer suborbital space flights in the near-term but also to eventually offer point-to-point rocket travel around the globe, as well as to space hotels, and trips to the Moon. While the business case for public space transportation has yet to be proven, sections of Virgin Galactic's spaceliner already dot the factory floors at Scaled Composites in Mojave, California--all under the watchful eye of aerospace designer, Burt Rutan. Rutan and his team built and flew the piloted SpaceShipOne on a trio of suborbital treks in 2004, winning the $10 million Ansari X Prize purse in the process.... | |
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| | | Business travel to U.S. slumps because of security measures | | Posted Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:49:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | The United States is losing substantial numbers of business travelers to Europe because of the stringent security measures it imposes on international visitors, according to a new report by a tourism industry group. Europe, meanwhile, is failing to fully capitalize on increased interest from Asian travelers because many countries do not have adequate services for that burgeoning market. The World Travel Market 2006 report — conducted by Euromonitor International and released Monday — found that total business arrivals to the United States fell by 10 percent to 7 million over the 2004-2005 period, while the number of the business visitors to Europe grew by 8 percent to 84 million over the same period. Euromonitor International spokesman Clement Wong said the trend away from North America was likely to intensify as security restrictions continue, making obtaining visas more difficult.... | |
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| | | U.S. losing business travellers | | Posted Tuesday, November 07, 2006 6:49:38 AM by Blog57 Team | | LONDON, England (AP) -- The United States is losing substantial numbers of business travelers to Europe because of the stringent security measures it imposes on international visitors, according to a report by a tourism industry group released today. Europe, meanwhile, is failing to fully capitalize on increased interest from Asian travelers because many countries do not have adequate services and infrastructure for that burgeoning market. The World Travel Market 2006 report -- conducted by Euromonitor International -- found that total business arrivals to the United States fell by 10 percent to 7 million over the 2004-2005 period, while the number of the business visitors to Europe grew by 8 percent to 84 million over the same period. Euromonitor International spokesman Clement Wong said the trend away from North America was likely to intensify as security restrictions continue, making obtaining visas more difficult.... | |
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