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Internet travel firm flies into biz orbit; Orbitz launches services for corporate clients.(Low-cost online travel firm offers reporting and management tools to corporate travel departments)(Internet/Web/Online Service Information)(Brief Article)
Crain's Chicago Business, September, 2002 by Maddox, Kate
Byline: KATE MADDOX Crain News Service Online travel service Orbitz LLC is hoping to bring business travelers on board. The Chicago-based company's new Orbitz for Business service offers a combination of low-cost travel bookings plus reporting and management tools for corporate travel departments.
``This provides validation that you can take a (business-to-consumer) model and create a viable b-to-b model,'' said David Cerino, general manager of corporate travel at Orbitz, which was launched in March 2001 as a low-cost travel booking service for consumers by United, American, Continental, Delta and Northwest airlines. There is significant opportunity in managed online travel bookings, or bookings conducted through company-approved online travel agencies,...
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