Travel Articles

Talking Travel:
Over 2,500 buyers and sellers gathered at Acapulco's Convention Center this spring to negotiate travel deals at Mexico's biggest travel fair...

Travel Management-The Things You Need To Know:
Everyone associated with doing business with the government is familiar with the E-Gov initiatives that were launched in 2002 by OMB. One of those is eTravel initiatives, which is designed to improve the federal government's travel process, reduce costs and improve employee productivity...

Eliminating Travel Did Not Violate FMLA:
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) permits the elimination of work travel from an employee's job if the job description is rewritten during the employee's leave, provided the employee's duties after the leave are virtually identical to the ones performed before the time off, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held.

Travel and Gifts: The Dream Incentives:
To effectively compete in today's crowded market, banks are offering incentives to lure customers. But the question of what to offer -- a gift or cash -- plagues even the most experienced marketer. Extensive national marketing research by Incentive Federation Inc, Worcester, MA, has shown customers' perceptions about cash when it is offered as an incentive. Some customers perceive it as "vaporware."

Travel by site:
Still in its infancy, the Internet travel business is going through its first wave of consolidation. There are about 1,000 travel sites and it is predicted that in 5 years, 800 of them will be gone. The survivors are likely to be fighting over a huge market. A discussion is presented of several of the current travel Web sites.