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Any questions related to technology and the travel industry. This includes online travel trends, changes in travel distribution practices, emerging technology to manage corporate travel, corporate self-bookings tools, expense management systems and data warehouse initiatives.

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Technology Companies: BroadVision, Extensity, Fetch Technologies, ImaginOn, Netscape Communications, Oracle Corporation, PeopleSoft, Peregrine Systems, PointsNorth Digital Technologies/Peragis, Site2, Sun Microsystems

Travel Companies: Carlson Leisure Group, Carlson Wagonlit /WTS, Datalex, Maritz Travel Company, The National Business Travel Association, Perillo Tours, Reed Elsevier/OAG, Rosenbluth International, Sun International Resorts, US Bank, Worldspan, WorldTravel BTI

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Recent Answers from Norman L. Rose

2010-12-17 Technology Trends in Travel Distribution:

IT in the business travel industry generally resides at the travel management company (TMC) or licensed directly by the corporation.    From the TMC viewpoint IT investment centers around technology to

2010-05-06 Travl Agency:

Not sure where you are writing from.  In the US you need to contact ARC:  http://www.arccorp.com/index.jsp  For outside the US you need to contact IATAN:  http://www.iatan.org/Pages/default.aspx    Here

2010-04-04 meal allowance:

Ryan,    I just received the BTN Corporate Travel Index 2010 which lists per diems per top US cities.  An electronic version can be found here http://www.btnonline.com/businesstravelnews/headlines/frontpage_display

2009-05-13 New travel agency.:

As a licensed travel agent you simply need to contact Disney and other suppliers to negotiate a discount or net rate that you can mark-up. There are many independent agents who work as an outside agent

2009-04-23 Travel Reimbursement Policy:

This is completely up to your company's culture.  If you worked for the US Federal Government your employees would be reimbursed at $.585 per mile.  Most companies I am aware of would not reimburse employees

 

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