Travel Management Partners

12/15/2016

An efficient team creates success. TMP would like to Congratulate our 2016 winners for their media and sales integration and success.

09/26/2016

The News & Observer looked into TMP's success over the past twenty-two years in the corporate travel world, as well as our powerful future: http://www.newsobserver.com/news/business/article103671287.html

Corporate travel agency Travel Management Partners has survived and prospered in an industry that has been going through significant upheaval. It has earned a reputation for forging long-term relationships with customers.

06/03/2016

InterContinental Hotels Group sharpens focus on Business Travelers.

InterContinental Hotels Group is investing $200 million into its Crowne Plaza brand in the Americas to boost its appeal to the modern business traveler.

06/01/2016

http://click.northstartravelmail.com/?qs=8797c48fa327de236912b3fc9ce85e5bb493f00b7fbdc787ca1c7a79c367ad87266b917a86ce98f4

Chrome River clients, regardless of where they're based, now can reclaim value-added tax through a partnership with Quipsound, a United Kingdom-based VAT recovery service. While Chrome River enables organizations to calculate a VAT amount for each claim within the tool, Quipsound will do the actual…

05/31/2016

Delta Adds Full Network & Baggage Handling to Operations Guarantee

Business Travel News
http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Procurement/Delta-Adds-Full-Network-Baggage-Handling-to-Operations-Guarantee

Delta Air Lines is expanding the performance metrics that it promises to meet or otherwise will compensate corporate customers.

05/27/2016

U.S. Airlines Invest to Speed Up Security Lines
Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Transportation/Air/US-Airlines-Invest-to-Speed-Up-Security-Lines

U.S. carriers are supplying extra staffing and resources to alleviate growing security lines in advance of the summer travel season, as lengthening security checkpoint lines cause headaches across the country.

05/26/2016

Travelers Say They Want to Book Everything on One Platform but Don't Do So
Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Management/Travelers-Say-They-Want-to-Book-Everything-on-One-Platform-but-Dont-Do-So

A 40 percentage point chasm separates business travelers who say they prefer to book all travel through one platform and those who actually book on a central or corporate booking tool. A study from travel and expense management provider KDS found 74 percent prefer a single channel, but only 34 perce...

05/25/2016

American Will Make Preferred Seats Free for Corporate Travelers Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Distribution/American-Will-Make-Preferred-Seats-Free-for-Corporate-Travelers

All those seats that frequent-flyers can access for free—American Airlines plans to make them free to corporate customers, as well, via global distribution systems. American eastern sales division managing director Jim Carter told BTN GDS subscribers will be able to access preferred seats—those aisl...

05/24/2016

Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE)

https://www.acte.org/allNews.htm?ID=697

Creating meaningful dialogue since 1988 through education, advocacy and research for the global corporate travel community.

05/23/2016

"April Proved a Bright Spot for U.S. Hotels."
Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Procurement/STR-April-Proved-a-Bright-Spot-for-U-S-Hotels-in-a-Weak-2016

After flattening out in recent months, occupancy at U.S. hotels increased 2.2 percent year over year during April to 68.1 percent, according to STR.

05/21/2016

Business travel will have a significant role to play in mobile rail-fare in Europe. Buying Business Travel

http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/feature/2025737-no-tickets-please

Business travel will have a significant role to play in the mobile rail-fare revolution

05/20/2016

Automating Flight Refunds May Become Big Money in Corporate Travel.

Skift

https://skift.com/2016/04/25/automating-flight-refunds-may-become-big-money-in-corporate-travel/

If you're a flyer in Europe whose air itinerary has been altered or cancelled by the airlines, law entitles you to a refund of part of your airfare. But ac

05/19/2016

Buying Business Travel
http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/news/1825724-gtmc-2016-business-travel-driving-economic-growth

Research by Oxford Economics unveiled at the GTMC conference in Florida shows that business travel is a significant and direct factor in economic growth.

05/18/2016

Risk Management. Buying Business Travel

http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/feature/1325710-risk-management

Risk management is becoming an increasingly essential part of travel policy

05/17/2016

Business Travel News Delta

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Interviews/Delta-s-Bob-Somers-on-the-Operational-Guarantee-Whats-Next-for-Deltas-Corporate-Service

It's been nine months since Delta Air Lines launched its Operational Performance Commitment, in which the carrier pledges to its corporate contracted clients that it will keeps its performance levels above at least one of its two major competitors. Over that time, not only has United Airlines announ...

05/16/2016

Travel Management Companies: Evolutionary Thinking

Buying Business Travel
http://buyingbusinesstravel.com/feature/2725638-tmcs-evolutionary-thinking

Travel management companies have always needed to be quick to adapt to change – now more than ever, given the industry’s current rate of evolution

05/15/2016

"Four Ways to Prep Travel Policy for the Online World"
Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Management/Four-Ways-to-Prep-Travel-Policy-for-the-Online-World

Today's travel manager faces a more variable role than travel managers of days past. They can navigate and institute a list of preferred hotels and airlines to craft the perfect travel policy, but mobile and online platforms are disrupting these efforts by allowing employees to book travel accommoda...

05/13/2016

HotelNewsNow.com

http://www.hotelnewsnow.com/articles/45687/Low-gas-prices-inbound-travel-fuel-promising-US-summer

Hoteliers are preparing for an especially strong summer with the current state of the oil markets, consumer confidence and an increase in inbound domestic and global travel.

05/13/2016

Duty of Care in Corporate Travel

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iram-ganju/duty-of-care-securing-the_b_9866244.html

Duty of Care: Securing the Safety of the Traveling employees and developing a Plan B. As fearless as I can be, I am fearful too. I fear for the safety ...

05/12/2016

Alaska & Japan Airlines Plan Codeshare Agreement

Alaska Airlines Japanair Business Travel News

http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Global/Alaska-Japan-Airlines-Plan-Codeshare-Agreement

Alaska Airlines and Japan Airlines will begin a codeshare agreement and reciprocal frequent-flyer benefits on June 29, pending government approval. Japan Airlines will add its code on Alaska routes from Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and Vancouver. Japan Airlines connects to those four cities...

05/11/2016

According to J.D. Power’s 2016 North America Airline Satisfaction Study, Passenger Satisfaction Hits a 10-Year High.

J.D. Power Skift
https://skift.com/2016/05/11/passengers-satisfaction-with-u-s-airlines-hits-a-10-year-high/?utm_content=30253413&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

Flyers are more satisfied with their airline experience than they've been in the last decade, and its not just because fares have decreased, according to J

05/11/2016

"Alaska Airlines Wants Virgin America to Fulfill Its Corporate Travel Ambitions"
Alaska Airlines Virgin America Skift

https://skift.com/2016/04/27/alaska-air-wanted-virgin-america-to-fulfill-its-corporate-travel-ambitions/

Alaska Airlines executives admitted on the airline's quarterly earning call last week that attracting more business travelers was a big reason it decided t

05/10/2016

Over Two Thirds of Global Consumers Now Book Travel Exclusively Using the Internet



PRnewswire

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/over-two-thirds-of-global-consumers-now-book-travel-exclusively-using-the-internet-300264476.html

SAN FRANCISCO, May 9, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- The latest research from MarkMonitor® reveals that 68% of consumers...

05/10/2016

Four Charts on the Reality of Expenses in U.S. and UK - Corporate Travel

Skift

https://skift.com/2016/05/09/corporate-travel-expense-charts/

Research from corporate travel booking and expense technology provider KDS finds that business travelers have yet to adopt mobile or online solutions to ke

05/09/2016

Caution Is the New Normal - Corporate Travel Innovation Report. Skift

https://skift.com/2016/05/05/caution-is-the-new-normal-corporate-travel-innovation-report/

The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our new weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for

05/09/2016

The Rise of Private Jets in Corporate Managed Travel
Business Travel News



http://www.businesstravelnews.com/Procurement/The-Rise-of-Private-Jets-in-Corporate-Managed-Travel

Boosted by mobile tech and demand in secondary markets, private jet suppliers now offer a variety of service levels, booking styles and corporate agreements. Here are four U.S. booking engines, three operators and the inroads they’re making into corporate managed travel.

05/06/2016

Starwood Preferred Guest rewards members aren't as panicked about Marriott International merger as it seems, study finds

Washington Business Journal

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/top-shelf/2016/05/starwood-rewards-members-aren-t-as-panicked-about.html
Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc. Marriott Hotels

How the two companies will merge their popular rewards programs has been a big question mark for loyalty members.

05/06/2016

Skift

https://skift.com/2016/05/06/terror-attacks-and-change-fees-cause-travelers-to-rethink-travel-insurance/

Disease outbreaks and terrorist attacks during the past year have caused many travelers to give more thought to protecting themselves than they have in the