Royal Coachman’s Travel Tips: How to get a seat reservation

Seat reservations on airlines can sometimes be harder to come by than a table at a hot restaurant. Just like slipping the maître d’ a tip, there are ways around this problem. Airlines will routinely block seats for a variety of reasons that make sense to them. A recent...

More Corporate Travel Department Heads are Taking Charge of Meetings Management and Planning

A Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) survey finds that an increasing number of travel managers are charged with risk management, strategic meetings management planning (SMMP), and other responsibilities. Although their titles might be Travel Manager or, Travel Director, more and more travel department heads are taking on meeting management...

A Seasonal Snapshot of New York City’s Restaurant Week

New York City Restaurant Week doesn’t merely offer discounted meals—it frames a moment when the city’s culinary rhythm recalibrates. As each season shifts, so do the inspirations behind the menus. Chefs take this opportunity to showcase ingredients at their peak, from winter’s earthy root vegetables to summer’s burst of...

Hotel industry predicts best results in 6 years

The economic upturn is being felt by the hotel industry, with occupancy levels up and a bright outlook for profits, reports PwC. The key indicator of revenue per available room should increase by nearly 6% this year and over 6% in 2014. There are a few reasons for this:...

Royal Coachman’s Travel Tidbits: JetBlue to add business-class and “mini-suites”

JetBlue has indicated in a filing to the Federal Aviation Administration that it will start to fit four “mini-suites” on some of its fleet of Airbus A321s. The story has run in a number of industry publications including Aviation Week. The A321 is operated on a number of trans-continental...

Royal Coachman’s Business Travel Trends in 2013

Half of travelers have saved their company money on air fares by booking at least 14 days in advance, says Orbitz in their analysis of business travel for the first quarter of 2013. The other key headline is that the vast majority (98%) of hotel bookings are for less...

6 Things to Make Your Business Trips a Breeze

Business travel can pose a challenge to even the most organized, best-financed and most resourced executive The good news is that it doesn’t need to be unbearable. This post gives you 6 tips that can help to minimize your frustration, increase your efficiency and, we hope, make your trips...

Royal Coachman Worldwide Meeting Tips: The Best Corporate Events to Plan this Summer

In the world of corporate events, most winter plans are the more traditional seminars and conferences. The summer months expand the possibility of incorporating outdoor venues and destinations. Employee recognition days, team building events or even new service launches can be much more engaging against the backdrop that the...

Royal Coachman Meeting Tips: NYC’s Eventi Adds Meeting App for Group and Meeting Clients

Recently, Eventi, a New York Kimpton Hotel, debuted an original customizable meeting app for its meetings group clients. The 292-room hotel, working in tandem with PSAV, can now offer the PSAV Mobile Manager (M3) application to group meetings allowing them to use their smartphones and tablet computers as interactive...

Word of Mouth Still Most Important for Tradeshow Attendees

Some of our customers are active participants and organizers of tradeshows, so this post brings you some potentially surprising findings on the subject. A recent report, by CEIR, reveals that the old word-of-mouth communication methods are the most important when considering attendance at a tradeshow. In our ever connected...

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