Travel Supplier And Travel Agent Resources
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The Pacific Asia Travel Association PATA is an authority on Pacific Asia travel and tourism and provides marketing, research, and educational opportunities to a membership of government tourist offices, airlines, hotels, travel agencies, tour operators and related companies. PATA's mission is to enhance the growth, value and quality of Pacific Asia travel and tourism for the benefit of its membership.
Over 10,000 travel and tourism professionals: travel agents, tour operators, tourist officers, trade suppliers, hoteliers, travel journalists, destination marketing officers, or other travel professionals.
Web-based Online Travel Booking Engine that allows the creation of instant one-stop-shopping travel capable storefronts for any web site. Access airlines, hotels, car rental companies.
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Corporate Air Travel Resources
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| | | Published by Marty on 20.10.2006 at 22:50. |
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IJET Travel Risk Management Focused on delivering proactive travel risk management services and real-time intelligence solutions to travelers, expatriates, corporations, government and non-governmental organizations, learning institutions and the travel industry.
National Business Travel Association The NBTA represents over 2,400 corporate travel managers and travel service providers, and is committed to the professional development of its members, It offers educational and training opportunities, and is a source for information on the business travel industry.
Universal Air Travel Plan UATP, also known as Air Travel Card, is a business travel payment system offered by most of the world's major airlines and accepted by most air carriers. The UATP card provides detailed, consolidated, and centralized billing to corporate customers. Individual airlines direct bill corporate customers for flight activities.
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Outtask Cliqbook Manages To Find Best Travel Rates
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| | | Published by Monkeh on 20.10.2006 at 14:59. |
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With the recent signing of Adelman Travel Group, Omega World Travel and VTS Travel, Outtask has attracted the business of about 20 percent of the top 30 travel agencies and about half of the top 10 travel agencies in the United States, said executives of the company.
The Cliqbook technology allows travel agencies and corporate travelers the same direct Web access from a single user account, with realtime reporting of all purchases. The solution also enforces travel and expense policies for both online and offline purchases.
"Our tool, in addition to managing the entire procurement and approval process, goes out and looks and says, 'Oh, by the way, there's a fare out there for $450,' " he said. "The airline gets to fill that seat, the customer gets a cheaper fare, and three or four middlemen are eliminated from the process."
Bob Chaiken, chief operating officer of Adelman Travel, said that kind of fully managed solution is attractive to corporate travel clients looking to ensure they get the best deal. He said Cliqbook is the only solution he is aware of that's being offered as a managed service.
Milwaukee-based Adelman Travel was founded in 1985 and has on-site locations across the country and reservation centers in Milwaukee, Boston and Santa Ana, Calif. Because Adelman signed on with Outtask in late July, it's still early to judge the system's success, but Chaiken said initial feedback is positive. Chaiken said Adelman required little technical support from Outtask, and customer implementation is proceeding well. He expects the new system to be fully functional by the end of August.
Atkinson said Outtask keeps the price structure simple for clients. There's a commitment by the travel agency, he said, and that commitment is rebated through transactions. Those transactions, in turn, are being charged to the travel agency's customers.
Outtask plans to keep outsourcing the solution and expects demand for Cliqbook to continue for the foreseeable future, Atkinson said. The additional edge for Outtask, he said, is the focus on a market where traditional IT doesn't have a stronghold.
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Interline Travel Resources
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| | | Published by yoyo on 20.10.2006 at 13:24. |
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Newbid.net A site for nonrevs with airline humor, airline jobs, airline news, airport photos, airport classified ads, pilot links, flight attendant links, airline employee forum, fod, non-rev links, employee travel sites, links to great web shopping.
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How B2b Services Can Reduce Your Costs
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| | | Published by Shopro on 20.10.2006 at 20:23. |
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You, or your accountant, should already be tracking your operating costs. Tracking your key expenses is vital to finding the minimum cost required to do each task successfully. Once you've quantified each expense separately, it will be easier to identify where you can save money. Sometimes finding one key expense that can be reduced can make the difference between success and failure.
Operating costs generally include personnel, facilities, loan payments, taxes, depreciation, licenses, Internet services, legal and professional services, office supplies, subscriptions, travel and entertainment, and advertising or marketing. When you examine each item carefully, you will see that with some licenses, for example, there is little option for reducing cost because they include fixed rates. Other costs, such as personnel, are almost completely in your power to change. Lowering expenditures in these fields can be as simple as conserving resources.
Many B2B enterprises and ASPs offer services. They have saved many companies from ruin and brought others unnecessary expense. You will have to decide for yourself if they can help and how. These companies serve their customers by providing functions more cheaply than their customers could do the functions themselves. The newly emerging ASPs help small businesses by renting or leasing them Internet access to software only when they need it.
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Key Cost-cutting Areas
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| | | Published by xamogelo on 20.10.2006 at 10:48. |
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Customer support can be one of the most time-consuming tasks for your staff. It might include answering simple inquiries, dealing with complaints, and offering follow-up technical support. You might want to provide high-quality service as a feature of your overall business plan, but don't hire and support such a large team that it bankrupts your company.
Internet service expenses include your Internet service provider (ISP), merchant account provider, servers and hosts, and, to some extent, your information technology (IT) or information services (IS) teams. The IT or IS demands can be outsourced easily and may already be packaged with your host service.
The costs of legal and professional services might be harder to reduce. You probably already have spent considerable time choosing lawyers and accountants. Common sense is the rule of thumb here, though many resources may still be found on the Net. You can search for lawyers, legal advice, or accountants. You can also research legal issues yourself at such sites as
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| | | Published by aquavitae on 20.10.2006 at 19:15. |
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