Is value-added service or technological enhancement the key to strengthening the professional relationship between travel management companies (TMCs) and their corporate clients?

“Business travelers do not get enough travel health and security training, especially those venturing into high-risk areas,” was the key message of a report delivered to delegates at the annual Asia-Pacific Education Conference of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) this week in Singapore.

What’s the greatest challenge facing travel-management companies (TMCs) today in their quest to establish and strengthen working relationships with corporations and their travelers? To a number of agency executives fresh off four days of high-profile networking with their corporate counterparts at the 2010 National Business Travel Association (NBTA) Convention & Exposition in Houston, it’s the need to prove their value to their customers… every day.

How do new entrants to the global aviation marketplace measure up against the world’s legacy carriers? According to Etihad Airways CEO James Hogan, the answer is surprisingly well.

A quartet of CEOs at the recent National Business Travel Association (NBTA) Convention & Exposition in Houston speak about how consolidation and improved technologies are changing the face of the travel industry.

Corporate travel has been rebounding, but it could be challenged by rising oil prices and austerity measures, according to members of “Travel’s Value Chain CEO Panel” at the recent National Business Travel Association (NBTA) convention.

For the nearly 6,000 industry professionals from 40 countries in Houston for the 2010 National Business Travel Association (NBTA) International Convention & Exposition, the message delivered came across loud, clear and roundly appreciated: “Business travel is coming back!”

Amid cautious optimism on the recovery of both business travel and the global economy, the growing globalization of business travel management was a major theme at the National Business Travel Association convention in Houston. NBTA becomes the Global Business Travel Association next year.

Amid cautious optimism on the recovery of both business travel and the global economy, the growing globalization of business travel management was a major theme at the National Business Travel Association convention in Houston. NBTA becomes the Global Business Travel Association next year.

Excessive local travel-related taxes can be a deterrent to meetings and travelers and damage local economies, according to an annual study of car-rental, hotel and meal taxes in the top 50 U.S. travel destination cities, sponsored by the education and research foundation of the National Business Travel Association in tandem with Concur, an on-demand Employee Spend Management service.