| | Runzheimer: 2005 Take a trip Expenses To Rise 13 Percent<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Runzheimer International last month outlook overall travel costs will be up Ten % in 2005, having air, lodging, dinner and car expenditures all expected to maximize. The travel administration consulting and benchmarking agency said overall air spend will be upwards 5 percent. "We expect air travel volume to rise simply by 10 percent, but the the prices impact of low-cost service fares as well as competition between the major companies will result in only a Five percent expense increase ,Inch the firm expressed. Lodging is expected to find out the biggest hike while spend is expected being 13 percent higher than this year, given estimated higher prices and a lot more occupancy. Meanwhile, the agency said car rental spend will be up 6 % and meals may spike by Ten %.<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Demand Strengthens Hotels' Hand From Negotiating Table<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Citigroup Smith Barney professional Michael Rietbrock said more corporate transient need over the summer has got resulted in hotels seeing more profits through rate hikes than merely occupancy gains. On the events side, higher-paying groups are usually replacing lower-rated ones, mentioned JP Morgan Chase's Harry Curtis. Deluxe plus upper upscale hotels are the beneficiaries of the shift as are decline versus suburban spots. Among hotel companies, this mostly benefits Marriott International, Hilton Hotels Corp. and also Starwood Hotels & Resorts Around the world, the multi-brand majors with which prospective buyers are most likely to negotiate chainwide discounts. In rate negotiations on prices, buyers also are prone to face more resistance in bargaining in the property level along with airport hotels. This jump in corporate journey has translated straight into more demand in these mostly midprice accommodations, driving late-August revenue per available room right up almost 10 percent over a year ago. <BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />CWT Rolls Available Global Reporting Software, Thins Hierarchy<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Carlson Wagonlit Travel is implementing its Discovery canceling tool so that because of the beginning of next year it provides a common global credit reporting tool. Such world integration is a most important focus of Hubert Joly, web design manager and CEO involving Carlson Wagonlit Travel Worldwide due to the fact July. Late recently, Joly and Jack O'Neill, main operating officer for North America, took on new duties following a resignation of Robin Schleien as president of Carlson Wagonlit Travel North America. Schleien will serve for a consultant until he leaves at the end of March. "It was Robin's decision to help step down,Inches O'Neill said. "He got Carlson Wagonlit Vacation back from the verge. Personally, I went along to CWT with the complete expectation that we'd often be partners." At this moment O'Neill is responsible for all U.S. and Canadian customers and workforce. Joly, who plans to invest about half of the time in the United States, considers the rest of Schleien's duties. "With Robin's leaving, we have the opportunity to slim out the organization whilst it lean," O'Neill said, "while globalizing the company extra, and pulling in concert the sensible shared services."<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Meetings Tech Cos. PlanSoft, SeeUthere Merge<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Meetings technological innovation firms SeeUthere Technologies and also PlanSoft Inc. last week joined into a new organization called OnVantage, headquartered within Santa Clara, Calif. The new organization is split into two divisions. One, operating out from SeeUthere's Santa Clara base, is going to focus on serving business clients. The other will probably concentrate on the supplier current market and operate outside of PlanSoft's Twinsburg, Ohio, home. The actual all-stock transaction was priced as a merger connected with equals. SeeUthere CEO in addition to president John Adjust will serve as Boss. SeeUthere COO Stanley Chin will lead the corporate split. <BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Radius Taps Amadeus In Pursuit Of International Business<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Global travel management business Radius last week said it had selected Amadeus to give a common technology podium for its Business Advancement group. Member agencies, which in the United States consist of Northwestern Travel Management, Go & Transport and TraveLeaders, "can today compete for main corporate customers, throughout the world," said Radius president and President Tony Hughes. "Shared worldwide business for Radius shareholders will have the front office booking software, the Radius Tire quality-control (BTN, Aug. 16), mid-office plus reporting all looking at a common GDS." Gillian Gibson, vice chairman of the Amadeus multinational client group, said the corporation customized certain equipment "to be specific to help Radius' processes" and that the platform might integrate mid-office technology via either TRX suspension trainer幼urrently used by Radius熔r Amadeus' very own product, Global Max. TQ3 Navigant last month said it determined Global Max additional back-office consolidation, doubling the business of the current contract backward and forward companies and upgrading Navigant acquisition Sato Travel to the most up-to-date version of Global Greatest extent.
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