industry note

Dear Industry Colleague,

I invite you to consider joining the Business Travel Coalition (BTC) and supporting its advocacy mission. BTC has a successful 14-year track record of engaging the most controversial issues of strategic importance to the industry from CRS deregulation in Europe to airline competition in the U.S. Currently BTC is fighting against airfare content fragmentation and for the return of Air Canada Tango fares to the GDSs.

BTC Membership is just $149.00 per year. Membership includes issue briefings and reports throughout the year as well as Travelogue, our daily compendium of business travel news and trends from around the world, which is distributed in some 80 countries. Most importantly, you will have the opportunity to influence and lead on issues of strategic importance to your organization.

Joining BTC online is easy. You can sign up for your membership at http://btcweb.biz/platinum_membership.htm

Below are some comments about BTC and Travelogue from government, industry and press officials.

Please feel free to contact me with any questions at btcmitchell@gmail.com, or 610-341-1850.

Best regards,

Kevin Mitchell
Chairman
Business Travel Coalition

COMMENTS

Dick Grimm, Assistant Attorney General, New York State--"Kevin, Excellent idea. I consult your useful site frequently and pay attention to your well-considered opinions."

Senator John McCain, Member of Congress:  “Kevin, you continue to do the Lord’s work.  Keep up the good fight!”

Diane Witt, Travel Programs Manager, Attachmate Corporation--"I just wanted to thank you for sending this Travelogue out.  The quality is excellent, and it's comforting to know that other professionals are seeing the same information. I think this will help to further educate and unite our profession. You are doing a great job!"    

Marty Craig, Sr. Partner, Page, Rich, Tremain & Craig, LLC--Kevin, "I wanted to take a brief moment to express my appreciation for the information our firm gets from BTC and for the many issues that it has addressed regarding the struggling airline industry. Most appreciated."

David Danby, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc.--"Dear Kevin, I attended your roundtable meeting yesterday afternoon and the BABTA/SVBTA dinner last night and enjoyed very much hearing you speak. I do read BTC everyday and will look forward to hearing your radio show. I also appreciate your efforts with Congress to explain the realities of business travel and travel management."

Krista Pappas, New York Times on the Web--"Kevin, Kudos on a job well done with the site. You have accomplished a very key goal - Making your site a must read every day! Nice selection of stories, with useful facts. You are building a powerful network and giving your readers interesting and new ways to communicate."

Terry Trippler, President, Terry Trippler.com, Inc.--"Travelogue is the FIRST read in the morning. I can be working or reading any item and when Travelogue arrives in my e-mail I stop and switch to Travelogue. How can it improve? Something always could use improving but Travelogue just may be that exception. Keep it just the way it is. Great job - just great!