| | Runzheimer: 2005 Vacation Expenses To Rise Ten Percent<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Runzheimer International last month outlook overall travel bills will be up 10 percent in 2005, with air, lodging, dish and car costs all expected to raise. The travel operations consulting and benchmarking company said overall air spend will be in place 5 percent. "We expect flight volume to rise through 10 percent, but the rates impact of low-cost company fares as well as competitiveness between the major providers will result in only a 5 percent expense increase ,Inches the firm explained. Lodging is expected to see the biggest hike since spend is expected to generally be 13 percent beyond this year, given expected higher prices and more occupancy. Meanwhile, the firm said car rental spend will be up 6 % and meals will certainly spike by Ten percent.<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Demand Strengthens Hotels' Hand From Negotiating Table<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Citigroup Smith Barney specialist Michael Rietbrock said a boost in corporate transient requirement over the summer possesses resulted in hotels beginning to see more profits out of rate hikes than simply occupancy gains. On the gatherings side, higher-paying groups are generally replacing lower-rated ones, reported JP Morgan Chase's Harry Curtis. Deluxe plus upper upscale motels are the beneficiaries of your shift as are downward spiral versus suburban areas. Among hotel companies, this mostly advantages Marriott International, Hilton Hotels Corp. along with Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, the multi-brand majors with which prospective buyers are most likely to negotiate chainwide discounts. In rate discussions, buyers also are gonna face more weight in bargaining with the property level along with airport hotels. The actual jump in corporate travel has translated in to more demand on these mostly midprice hotels, driving late-August revenue every available room right up almost 10 percent at least a year ago. <BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />CWT Rolls Outside Global Reporting Tool, Thins Hierarchy<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Carlson Wagonlit Travel is deploying its Discovery credit reporting tool so that through the beginning of next year it'll have a common global confirming tool. Such world-wide integration is a principal focus of Hubert Joly, web design manager and CEO with Carlson Wagonlit Travel Worldwide since July. Late last month, Joly and Jack O'Neill, leading operating officer regarding North America, took on new duties following resignation of Robin Schleien when president of Carlson Wagonlit Take a trip North America. Schleien will serve as a consultant until he leaves at the end of March. "It was Robin's decision so that you can step down,Inch O'Neill said. "He got Carlson Wagonlit Journey back from the brink. Personally, I left for CWT with the complete hope that we'd become partners." At this moment O'Neill is responsible for all You.S. and Canadian customers and workers. Joly, who plans to shell out about half of her time in the United States, considers the rest of Schleien's duties. "With Robin's journeying, we have the opportunity to slender out the organization whilst it lean," O'Neill said, "while globalizing the company far more, and pulling together the sensible provided services."<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Meetings Tech Cos. PlanSoft, SeeUthere Merge<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Meetings technological know-how firms SeeUthere Technologies in addition to PlanSoft Inc. last week combined into a new business called OnVantage, headquartered inside Santa Clara, Calif. The new clients are split into two categories. One, operating out from SeeUthere's Santa Clara base, will focus on serving commercial clients. The other will certainly concentrate on the supplier industry and operate beyond PlanSoft's Twinsburg, Ohio, home. Your all-stock transaction was incurred as a merger involving equals. SeeUthere CEO as well as president John Adjust will serve as President. SeeUthere COO Stanley Chin can lead the corporate split. <BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Radius Taps Amadeus In Pursuit Of Multinational Business<BR clear="none" /><BR clear="none" />Global travel management organization Radius last week said hello had selected Amadeus to supply a common technology platform for its Business Development group. Member companies, which in the United States incorporate Northwestern Travel Management, Traveling & Transport and TraveLeaders, "can currently compete for significant corporate customers, internationally," said Radius president and Chief executive officer Tony Hughes. "Shared multinational business for Distance shareholders will have leading office booking software, the Radius Controls quality-control (BTN, Aug. 16), mid-office plus reporting all landing on a common GDS." Gillian Gibson, vice chairman of the Amadeus multinational client group, said the business customized certain instruments "to be specific for you to Radius' processes" and that the platform might integrate mid-office technology out of either TRX workout幼urrently used by Radius熔r Amadeus' private product, Global Potential. TQ3 Navigant last month said it decided on Global Max for more back-office consolidation, doubling the process of the current contract backward and forward companies and updating Navigant acquisition Sato Travel to the most recent version of Global Utmost.
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