Category - Corporate Travel

Michael Broadhurst, Executive Vice-President While travellers going “rogue” (booking their own travel arrangements rather than complying with corporate agreements) is always a challenge in this industry, there are a few newer wrinkles to be on the alert for. Michael Broadhurst recently returned from the Four Season Hotels Conference in San Francisco and says he was […]

                Starwood Hotels’ newest hotel brand is designed for the HENRYs—a cadre of “High Earning, Not Rich Yet” luxury-seeking millennials who tend to value a feeling of quality and authenticity over a loyalty to established brands. Tribute Portfolio, launched this month, is a collection of independently-run hotels targeted […]

Mobile Technology Helping Companies Communicate With and Track Employees   ALEXANDRIA, VA – May 19, 2015 —  The GBTA Foundation, the education and research arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), today unveiled a study finding an overwhelming majority of organizations – 83 percent — report their travel programs have risk management protocols in […]

Air Canada rouge (ACr) is introducing a new Business Class seat in the Premium rouge cabin throughout its entire A319 fleet. The new J seats will be arranged in a 2×2 configuration and will replace the current 3×3 configuration which features a blocked middle seat. The ACr 319s will have a total of 136 seats […]

Having recently returned from the annual Global Business Travel Association’s conference in Toronto, Joel Ostrov, president of Vision Travel Solutions, reflects on some of the industry’s current hot buttons. Ostrov notes that cost containment has ramped up dramatically in the oil and gas sector over the past few months, but conversely corporate accounts are moving […]

Vision Travel is the largest Canadian-owned and operated travel management company, employing over 650 travel professionals and processing over $680 million dollars in annual sales. The company has been providing a full range of corporate, meetings & incentives and leisure travel services from coast to coast to a wide spectrum of Canadian companies since 1953. […]