Cisco claims that its system pays for itself within six months on average through lower business-travel costs alone.
Southwest is also set to increase service on heavy business-travel routes to and from airports such as Chicago Midway, Denver, Los Angeles and Nashville.
Having fallen behind Delta and United in network size, American has lost corporate accounts and business-travel loyalty one of the factors that led to its bankruptcy reorganization.
"We have to go through the maze, and at some point, you have to eat, " says Joe Brancatelli, a business-travel consultant who runs the website joesentme.com and just released his annual list of the best airport food options available across the country.
More likely, their longer-term growth will bump up against the ceiling of a European market in which the contestable low-cost segment is smaller than it is in the U.S., and well-established packaged-tour operators and national-flag carriers can block deeper inroads into the leisure- and business-travel segments.
Big on merit bonuses (though not on perks such as business-class travel or company-provided cell phones), Dennis favors promoting from within.
The Council's report, Business Travel - A Catalyst for Economic Performance, also finds that business travel yields a return on investment of ten to one (in the US, the return is larger - 12 to 1).
Its important North American routes and business have been hard hit by the collapse in business-class travel.
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The most expensive international city for business travel -- based on the average cost for dining, entertainment and lodging -- was Tokyo, followed by Copenhagen, Perth, Sydney then Stockholm.
It'll also have to contend with American Express (nyse: AXP - news - people ) for business travel and entertainment and the higher-end market.
For the many travellers heading to one of the top five most-visited business travel destinations, here is how the costs break down.
Generally a higher number of competitors means more choice for consumers, but in the fragmented online-travel business some consolidation is good news for buyers.
Samsung's exclusive Easy Settings make it effortless to connect the Series 7 Slate to new wireless networks, projectors and more by giving you easy access to commonly used PC settings, resulting in stress-free business travel and presentations.
"We are definitely seeing strong growth in international travel and expect this trend to continue which will make traveller rights in all areas of the world a focus, " said a spokesperson for the Global Business Travel Association, a US-based trade organization representing travel buyers.
Yet a survey of 329 corporate-travel managers and business travellers published in February by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives found that only 17% of them now ranked environmental sustainability as a high priority, compared with 29% a year ago.
"The business traveler is seeing fuller planes, more delays, more of their baggage being mishandled, " says David Meyer, editor-in-chief of Business Travel News.
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The big boys could then concentrate on long-haul and business travel.
In addition, the country's corporate travel spending is catching up with the US, and looks set to surpass it by 2014, according to the US-based Global Business Travel Association.
Moreover, the vast majority of business-to-consumer sales involve services, such as travel, that are exempt from sales tax or involve products that are exempt, such as prescription drugs.
The popularity of booking travel online has already driven many bricks-and-mortar travel agents out of business.
For an industry that typically views travel as either business- or pleasure-related, the news comes as a surprise.
Leisure travel is holding up relatively well in some markets and a number of firms trying to save money have switched to using low-cost carriers for business travel as well.
Sales of highly profitable pickup trucks are tightly correlated with housing starts, while buoyant business travel boosts demand from car-rental firms.
Despite uncertainty in world financial markets, business travel has made a strong recovery from the dark days of 2008-2009 when companies drastically cut travel budgets and forbade travel to meetings and conventions.
LibertyPointe of New York advertises that its loan officers will travel to see small-business borrowers.
One delegate was Tim Young, whose farm-machinery business craves English speakers willing to travel to remote farmsteads to repair machinery.
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As written by Congress, the Tax Code gives the authorities a lot of room to disallow even legitimate writeoffs -- for charitable gifts, for business travel and entertainment, for your auto.
CHICAGO, Illinois (Reuters) -- The reports are still mixed on whether a genuine recovery in business travel is under way, but signs of certainty are emerging over at the other side of the airport -- in the charter terminal.
Travel-related taxes are often used to fund local projects unrelated to tourism and business travel, and with few exceptions, most cities and states have general sales taxes, Bates said.
Whilst much of the attention surrounding scramjets has focussed on the shorter journey times they could bring to long-haul passenger air travel, the first applications are likely to be in the space delivery business - launching small payloads, such as communications satellites, into orbit.
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