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WEBBusiness 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  
Hotel Rankings: Northstar Travel’s 10-Tier Classification System
WEB1. 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.
BTN's 2022 Corporate Travel Index | Business Travel News
WEBBTN's 2022 Corporate Travel Index reflects the per diem costs of business travel in 200 cities worldwide. Those costs are on the rise—and, strangely, that is good news if corporate travel buyers choose to look at the uplift as a sign of renewed travel industry health since it was eviscerated by two years and multiple waves of the Covid-19 pandemic.
BTN's Online Booking Tool Guide 2022 | Business Travel News
WEBBusiness 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 ...
Boeing - Business Travel News
WEBEighty-two percent of its U.S.-booked air travel was for domestic travel in 2019, up from 78 percent in the previous year. The company's goals for 2020 include improving end-to-end expense reporting and compliance, integrating immigration and tax assessment into pre-trip approval processes and implementing an enterprise meetings and events policy.
Corporate Travel 100 - Business Travel News
WEBBTN'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 …
BTN's 2023 Corporate Travel Index | Business Travel News
WEBBTN’s Corporate Travel Index offers the only industry resource for meal costs in 200 major business travel markets. Understanding the value it delivers—and the accuracy required—BTN has completely rebuilt our restaurant and meal cost database in 2023 to ensure our data reflects real market conditions around dining out in 2023.
Cathay Pacific Divides Economy Fare into Three Choices
WEBFeb 8, 2022 · Hong Kong-based carrier Cathay Pacific has restructured its economy fare into three levels—Light, Essential and Flex, the carrier announced. The new levels apply on flights departing from markets other than Hong Kong, according to a company spokesperson. The carrier also began rolling out the new fares by region in September 2021, officially ...
EY | Business Travel News
WEBEY. Accounting firm EY saw U.S.-booked air volume reach $346.8 million, up from $311.3 million in 2018. EY has a global travel policy and a single U.S. travel policy. In 2019, 70 percent of U.S.-booked air was for domestic travel. About 86 percent of 2019 U.S.-booked tickets were made through approved online tool.
BTN's 2021 Corporate Travel Index | Business Travel News
WEBBTN provided taxes and fees data for U.S. cities and calculated all full-year index rates. BTN will update hotel data quarterly. Car Rental Rates: Advito, DVI and Prime Numbers provided aggregated, anonymized, quarterly 2020 data for U.S. car rental rates booked by corporate clients across three car rental tiers, as well as local tax and fee data.