Questions arise about whether negotiated hotel, airline rates will stick

Each year at about this time, travel-management companies negotiate hotel and airline rates for the following year for the corporate clients. Last year, economic chaos surrounded the annual ritual, prompting rates to be renegotiated several times. Now, as the travel managers are negotiating rates, many industry insiders are wondering whether the rates will stick or continually be renegotiated as they were last year.

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This story published in AH&LA SmartBrief on 11/03/2009





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