Here are a few more reasons why businesses that focus on the vacation and meetings industry are joining Planit Direct.
Recent Industry Insider articles
“Another survey finding reflects the seismic influence of technology on incentive travel planning. Nearly 73% of planners and close to 67% of users said they’d book group services online with multiple suppliers rather than use a DMC to coordinate and manage all aspects of a program”.
Full story: It’s Not Business as Usual by Robin Amster June 27, 2011 Travel Market Report
“The big story is, it isn’t all one way; it’s happening forward and backward, top to bottom, and bottom to top, to all players in the supply chain. End users in effect are leap frogging the intermediary and wondering why they have to have someone in the middle. It’s the whole thought process of ‘I want to go as direct as I can,’” said Schuldt who is also chair of the SITE International Foundation Research Committee.
Jane Schuldt, CITE, president of World Marketing Group as quoted in Travel Market Report, June 2011
“Other trends suggest that although corporations are permitting employees to take trips, they’re being more stringent on spending and restricting the length of the trip”.
Julie Parodi, senior director of strategic planning for Pegasus Solutions Inc. Sept. 23, 2011
Full story: Hotel News Now by By Jason Q. Freed, News Editor Americas jfreed@HotelNewsNow.com
