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Business Travel News is the leading source of information serving the managed business travel and meetings market. BTN provides business travel management professionals in multinational, large, midsize and small corporations with news, analysis, and research to help them better evaluate, select and purchase business travel and meetings for their companies.  www.businesstravelnews.com  
What to Watch 2024 - Business Travel News
There are predictions that New Distribution Capability will precipitate industry consolidation, but also observations about diversity, equity and inclusion—and whether DEI is essential to realizing the true value of travel and meetings. And, yes, there’s …
Hotel Rankings: Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System
1. Moderate Tourist Class. A budget property with a no frills approach, providing basic accommodations for the traveler at a low-cost. Our 10-tiered hotel ranking system categorizes the different types of hotels and serves as an objective and independent evaluation system with worldwide application for the travel industry.
GSA Increases Lodging and Meals Per Diem Allowances for FY2025
Aug 16, 2024 · The GSA’s standard lodging rate for the 2025 fiscal year, which begins Oct. 1 and runs through Sept. 30, 2025, is $110, up $3 from the current rate of $107. That is a smaller increase than last year’s $9 increase in the standard lodging allowance for the current fiscal year from the 2023 fiscal year. The rate, which applies to federal ...
Corporate Travel 100 - Business Travel News
BTN's 2021 Corporate Travel 100 Ranked: Total business travel spend for the largest 100 corporate travel programs measured by U.S.-booked travel volume rose again in 2019. U.S.-originating travel as estimated by BTN for these programs hit $11.8 billion, its highest point ever. Yet, the spend spread widened between the biggest programs on the list and the smallest ones.
Amex GBT Agrees to Acquire CWT - Business Travel News
Mar 25, 2024 · In what would be one of the largest mergers of travel management companies in recent history, American Express Global Business Travel on Monday morning announced it had agreed to acquire rival CWT for $570 million in cash and stock. Should the deal receive the approval of shareholders and regulatory authorities, Amex GBT said it expects the ...
BTN's 2023 Corporate Travel 100 | Business Travel News
The Business Travel News 2023 Corporate Travel 100 is BTN’s effort to identify the 100 companies with the most business travel spend in the United States based on full-year 2022 U.S.-booked air volume. The 2023 list marks a return to BTN’s pre-pandemic methodology, which was modified over the past two years due to industry conditions.
BTN's Online Booking Tool Guide 2022 | Business Travel News
Business Travel News’ 2022 Guide to Online Booking Tools covers all the steps travel managers and travel buyers need to assess their programs and vet appropriate online booking partners. BTN also profiles the following tools: A2B by Amtrav, Atriis, SAP Concur, Cytric by Amadeus, Egencia, Etta, GetThere, Lightning, MyCWT, Neo by KDS, R&MBook by Reed & Mackay, TravelPerk, TripActions ...
2001: Seeds of Change in Struggling Economy | Business Travel …
Oct 12, 2024 · The bust of the dot-com bubble was in full destruction phase, after peaking in March 2000. It began to really hit the travel industry in March 2001, with airlines and hotels putting up wretched quarterly earnings and falling performance metrics that only got worse as the year progressed. Companies, once high on internet fueled product ...
BTN's 2024 Corporate Travel Index | Business Travel News
Business Travel Per Diems for 200 Global Cities. BTN’s 2024 Corporate Travel Index is the business travel industry's definitive resource for business travel costs in 200 cities around the world. Use it to benchmark your current program or to offer insights into rate trends in the markets you care about most.