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Business Travel News last week named Janan Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline`s director of procurement for corporate services, as the 2005 International Travel Manager of the Year at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives conference in London.

Business Travel News has been the voice of authority for corporate travel buyers throughout North America for over 20 years. BTN publishes 29 issues annually, including 23 newspapers and six Reference/Resource manuals. In addition, BTN offers product extensions providing total coverage of the commercial travel industry.

Airline Ceos Square Off On Wrigh
American Airlines chairman and CEO Gerard Arpey and Southwest Airlines chairman Herb Kelleher were among those speaking to a Senate committee today regarding the Wright Amendment, a controversial piece of legislation from the late 1970s that promoted

Blackstone, Back On Acquisition
The Blackstone Group today continued on its path of hotel acquisition with an agreement to purchase La Quinta Corp. and La Quinta Properties Inc. The parties value the deal at $3.4 billion and, subject to regulatory and stockholder approval, expect it to

British Airways Ceo Willie Walsh
Credited with resurrecting Irish carrier Aer Lingus, Willie Walsh this month officially took the reins as British Airways` CEO. Before making his first public speech to a travel trade group—last week at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives globa

Seeking Preferred Hotel Deals
Such negotiating tactics as the establishment of preferred meeting hotels have been successful in keeping hotel rate increases to a minimum this year, but will not stem the tide of rising meeting costs that buyers will have to navigate in 2006 as hotel

Two New All-Premium-Class Airlin
New entrants Eos Airlines and MaxJet both are offering daily, all-premium services between New York JFK and London Stansted Airport. Though their concepts are similar—a spacious inflight product offered at prices below comparable services from incumbent

Hoteliers Investing In India
As a boom in India`s economy pushes business traffic higher, hotel companies have responded to a lack of hotel rooms by announcing plans to invest more than $2.32 billion during the next five years to fund expansion programs in the country.

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