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Related Newslog Items 9 July 2010 BCD Travel partnered with videoconferencing reservations firm Whygo. As a result, BCD would provide to clients options for booking time at "2,500 videoconferencing rooms and 40 telepresence facilities around the world," including "BCD Travel and customer-negotiated conferencing inventory." BCD said it already offers in Belgium, Luxemburg and the Netherlands videoconferencing bookings via an online tool and "is exploring deployment of the service in other markets and through other travel booking channels." 6 May 2010 Egencia named former fighter pilot and private jet company sales director Jonny Shingles to replace Christophe Peymirat as managing director of Egencia UK. Peymirat will become global VP of marketing. The company also named Cecilia Routledge managing director for Asia-Pacific and Germain Huber as senior director of supplier relations in Europe.
22 March 2010 Egencia announced partnerships in Austria, Brazil, Czech Republic, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico and Slovakia. New travel management company partners include Business Travel Unlimited in Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia; Brazil's Tour House; Corporate Travel Services in Mexico; Japan's Hankyu Travel; and Mitra Malaysia in Malaysia. Egencia in December 2009 named several other TMC partners for the
Egencia Global Alliance.
19 March 2010 European rail joint venture Thalys partnered to integrate ticketless rail bookings with MobileXpense's expense software. To pull rail booking data into expense reports and create new management reports, MobileXpense customers add their Thalys ticketless number to their expense traveler profile. Offered by the Belgian, French, Dutch and German railways, Thalys provides passenger rail service to Amsterdam, Brussels, Cologne and Paris. Brussels-based MobileXpense serves 250 companies in 25 countries. 9 December 2009 Egencia will add service in Argentina, Hong Kong, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Singapore, Taiwan, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay through its Egencia Global Alliance launched with eight local travel management companies. New partners include ATH in Russia, Hungary's Ibusz, Action Travel for Argentina and Uruguay, Romania's Accent Travel, Orient Travel in the United Arab Emirates, Global Travel in Singapore, Lotus Tours in Hong Kong and Taiwan's Lion Travel. 12 November 2009 Travelport and British Airways signed a global, full-content deal running through April 2013. Bookings through the Galileo and Worldspan global distribution systems made on BA from U.K. and Ireland points of sale will continue to incur fees of £0.50/€0.75 or £1/€1.50, depending on class of service, for participating travel agencies. Agencies choosing not to opt-in to the program will incur booking fees of £3 per booked BA segment. 4 November 2009 Carlson Wagonlit Travel partnered with Tata Communications to offer clients bookings and other services for Tata's Cisco TelePresence Suites. CWT announced it would "help in determining if and when a virtual meeting meets" customer business needs, manage the reservations process and provide "reporting on adoption and related cost savings." Tata runs on-site private telepresence suites for companies, and is installing hundreds of public sites in locations such as Starwood and Taj Hotels properties. Currently "several" public rooms are available on a "pay-per-use basis in the United States, England, India, South Africa and the Philippines," according to the company.
30 October 2009 Egencia named Nikki Germany managing director of Egencia Canada and Chris Moreland VP of account management for Egencia United States. Germany joined Egencia from destination resorts developer Intrawest; Moreland previously worked at Johnson and Johnson Company. 29 October 2009 Expedia's corporate travel division Egencia in the third quarter experienced a 10 percent drop in gross booking volume year over year, to $344 million. Revenue was roughly flat at $27 million. 3 September 2009 The Star Alliance introduced a program for meeting planners. Applicable for "most meetings of 50 people or more, with attendees originating in at least three different countries," the program includes an online request for proposal, discounts between "10 percent and 20 percent," and bookings through the meeting planner's "appointed travel agency," according to Star Alliance. Conditions vary by market and Star members ANA, LOT Polish Airlines, South African Airways and Thai Airways currently do not participate.
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