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"Clean, clear and to the point. Amongst all of the other industry news I have to read, your pages give me relevant big picture news." - Mark Chaskiel, FBI Travel Melbourne, Australia

"Kevin, I very much like Travelogue. Nice editing and selections of stories. Best." - Joe Sharkey, The New York Times

“In this fast world of limited available time, this website keeps me updated on the major items in a quick and efficient way. Thanks.” - Birgit Roeterdink, Director Global Travel & Meetings Procurement, NV Organon, The Netherlands

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Services

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 19:28:31 -0400

Kevin Mitchell Group

BTC has quietly offered many advisory and business services to the travel industry over the past 17 years. During Q4 2011 we will be moving these offerings under a new organization called the Kevin Mitchell Group (KMG) to enable a more aggressively promotion of these services without causing confusion in the marketplace regarding BTC's mission.

Services currently provided by BTC that will be offered under KMG will include:

- White Label Daily Travelogue (Celebrating 10 years this year!)

- White Label Week In Review

- Customized News Terminals

- Keynote Presentations & Educational Workshops

- Issue Advocacy Campaign Consulting

- Advertising on the BTC and KMG Websites

- Commissioned Research

- TMC Branding

- Customized TMC Management & Sales Industry Workshops

- New Product Launches

- PR Campaign Design & Execution

- Start-Up Consulting

- Executive Placement

- Board of Directors Search

- Association Management

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Travelogue

Wed, 07 Sep 2011 17:50:13 -0400

May 17, 2012

Lower oil prices ease load on consumers AP

What only weeks ago was seen as a serious threat to the economic recovery could now turn into a stimulus everyone can love. Oil and gasoline prices are sinking, giving relief to businesses and consumers who a few weeks ago seemed about to face the highest fuel prices ever.

Single-use card numbers set change air payments BTN (GOOD Read)

Lodge cards are set to receive their biggest shake-up in 30 years as various trials start later this summer to generate single-use 16-digit card numbers in the passenger name record of every air booking made through a central payment account with a travel management company. With the 16-digit number acting as a unique identifier, booking and payment data effectively will become one and the same thing, with expected benefits including 100 percent matching, less work for TMCs, reduced risk of fraud and improved quality control of data input.

'Give us solid data' MPs tell industry Travel Weekly UK (GOOD Read)

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Contact

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Kevin Mitchell

Chairman
Business Travel Coalition, Inc.
214 Grouse Lane, Radnor, PA 19087
Phone: 610.999.9247

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Sat, 21 May 2011 11:25:52 -0400

If It Ain’t Broken, Continue To Improve It!

According to Travel Weekly UK, head of UK & Ireland sales at British Airways (BA) Richard Tams, in addressing a Guild of Travel Management Companies audience in Abu Dhabi this week, referred to the current travel distribution system model as “broken.” Of course, this has become almost fashionable to say, and in some circles, a litmus test of one’s presumed travel technology sophistication. However, saying the distribution model is broken actually accentuates a certain benightedness with respect to the value of the GDS-centric distribution model.

An overwhelming majority of managed travel community participants keenly understand the huge value that the current distribution model generates. As the graphic immediately below depicts, thousands of suppliers with billions of prices and schedule options provide their offerings, in disparate data formats, through the “front doors” of the GDSs. Normalized, comparative display feeds flow out the “back doors” to TMCs and travel agencies around the world that service billions of consumers. This is all accomplished day in and day out with barely a hiccup.

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