Travel & Expense Management Firm Concur Sets up Shop in India

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Apr 212011
 


Integrated travel and expense management services provider Concur has established operations in India.

The move is designed to to expand the Redmond, Washington company’s customer base and seek growth in new geographic markets.

Concur said that besides assisting MNC clients in the region that already use its services, the company’s presence in India would better serve the local needs of the burgeoning Indian business travel market.

As the Indian economy is projected to become the world’s third largest in the near future, the country’s travel sector is expected to hit $20 billion by 2012.

Folks, Check Out Qatar Airways’ 2-1 Deal

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Apr 122011
 
Folks, Check Out Qatar Airways' 2-1 Deal

To mark its 100th destination milestone, Qatar Airways is offering a limited-time promotion that provides you 2 tickets for the price of 1. We dicked around around with the booking engine on the Qatar Airways web site and the savings for two people traveling from New York City to Mumbai […]

India’s Tourist Visa on Arrival Program Now Covers 11 Countries

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Apr 122011
 

Keen on attracting more tourists, the Indian government’s Visa on Arrival (VoA) program launched in January 2010 has been expanded to 11 countries from the original five (Finland, Japan, Luxembourg, New Zealand and Singapore). Since January 2011, citizens from six more countries – Cambodia, Indonesia, Vietnam,

TripAdvisor Burns Rubber

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Apr 122011
 

Travel and hotel reviews web site TripAdvisor seems to be on a scorching growth ride. The popular web site is tooting the horn today that it currently lists 45 million reviews and opinions. Apparently, 23 new contributions are posted every minute. Since October 2010, the site has added five million […]

Private Jets Growing in India

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Apr 072011
 

Hong Kong based boutique private jet advisory practice Firestone Management Group is seeing a sharp rise in private jets in the last three years. The researcher found 136 private jets registered in India as of March 15, 2011. Most Less than 10-Years-Old Of the total 136 private registered jets, 95 […]

AA Changes Departure Time of Chicago-Delhi Flight

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Apr 062011
 

American Airlines has retimed the departure of its daily nonstop flight from Chicago to Delhi to open up over 20 same-day connection opportunities for customers flying beyond India’s capital, The Chicago-Delhi flight now leaves three hours earlier than the previous schedule. Under the new schedule, the flight departs from Chicago […]