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TMC Strategic Planning Workshop

[30 min] The Travel Team, a travel management company owned by the Rich Products Corporation, services hundreds of commercial clients. Its President Jean Covelli invited BTC to conduct a Workshop for the firm's senior sales, marketing, technology, finance and conference management staff. This show captures the Workshop debrief.

Airfare Structure Simplification

[30 min] This week BTC Radio will speak with Scott McCartney, Travel Editor for The Wall Street Journal and look at recent initiatives by major U.S. network airlines to simplify airfare structures; how low-cost airlines will likely respond; what impact the new US Airways might have on advancing airfare structure simplification; the ongoing use of yield management; and much more.

2006 Business Travel Distribution Issues

[40 min] This week BTC Radio will look at the coming explosion in fragmentation of travel content; the direction of traditional and Internet travel management company transaction fees; and whether mid-size travel management companies can remain viable in the marketplace.

Worldwide Flu Pandemic

[40 min] This week we will look at the potential worldwide flu pandemic from the point of view of the travel industry. We will discuss the H5N1 bird flu from several angles designed to help the listener decide how to approach pandemic preparedness in his/her organization. Guests include Tim Appenzeller, Senior Editor, National Geographic, Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association, Katherine Andrus, Assistant General Counsel, Air Transport Association and Tim Daniel, Group Vice President, International SOS.