GUILD OF TRAVEL MANAGEMENT COMPANIES (GTMC) members have booked more than 3.45m flights in the first half of this year
They claim to handle more than 80% of UK companies” overseas business travel. ”That impressive figure is 10% up on the January-June period last year, and represents an additional 315,000 airline bookings,” says GTMC chief executive Philip Carlisle. In all, Guild members handled 6,466,195 transactions on behalf of their client companies ” 7.7% more than in the first half of 2005 ” including more than 1.47m hotel bookings (also up 7.7%) and more than 1.16m rail journeys (up 2.4%).
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