TOP 10
HOTEL COMPANIES BY NUMBER OF ROOMS, 2006
Hotel company Rooms
InterContinental Hotel Group
Wyndham Worldwide
Marriott
Choice Hotels
Hilton Hotels Corp.
Best Western
Starwood Hotels & Resorts
Accor International
Carlson Hospitality Worldwide
Accor North America
Source: American Hotel & Lodging Association
553,454
532,488
476,118
405,879
393,922
302,595
224,402
217,693
148,337
138,819
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TRAVEL AND TRANSPORT
2006 sales: $868 million
Employees: 715
Previous Ranking: 16
2120 S. 72nd St.
Omaha, NE 68124
T (402) 399-4500
F (402) 398-9290
www.tandt.com
Executives
CEO/PRESIDENT: William Tech
EXECUTIVE VP, SALES, OPERATIONS AND
CLIENT SERVICE: Tim Fleming
EXECUTIVE VP/CFO: Kevin O’Malley
SENIOR VP, STRATEGIC BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: John King
2006 Developments
• ARC sales of $653.6 million.
• 90% of sales from business, 5% from leisure,
5% from meetings.
• 22 outside travel sellers produced $5 million
in sales.
• Signed more than $50 million of new corporate business for the third year in a row.
•Expanded reservations center in Fargo,
N.D., and opened a new
office in Houston.
• Purchased a high-end
leisure agency, Regency
Travel, in Omaha, Neb.
Company Facts
• Owns Meeting Trends (sales of $37 million),
Loyalty Innovations ($58 million) and e TTek Solutions (N/D).
•• Member of Radius, Virtuoso.
100% employee owned.
Looking Ahead
• Will continue to develop and enhance technology products for e TTek Solutions, a suite of
technology products and services.
• Will continue to grow through internal sales
and acquisitions.
14
CARLSON LEISURE GROUP
2006 Sales: $822.7 million
Employees: 946
Previous Ranking: 17
701 Carlson Parkway
Minnetonka, MN 55305
T (763) 212-5000
www.cltsloyalty.com, www.carlsonconnected.com,
www.carlsontravel.com/travelagent
Executives
CEO/PRESIDENT: Michael Batt
EXECUTIVE VP, CARLSON VACATION AND
BUSINESS TRAVEL: Tom Baumann
EXECUTIVE VP, CARLSON TRAVEL FRANCHISE GROUP: Roger Block
EXECUTIVE VP, CARLSON LEISURE TRAVEL
SERVICES: Eric Burdon
SENIOR DIRECTOR, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT: Don Kennedy
2006 Developments
• ARC sales of $567.7 million.
• 80% of sales from leisure, 20% from business.
• Acquired CWT/Ocean-Air Travel.
• Introduced Cruise Specialists-operated Luxury
Travel Network, a host agency network for approved, luxury-focused, home-based agents.
• Introduced Luxury Travel Network Web site.
• Partners in Travel announced a new 100% commission option for their home-based program.
• Partners in Travel introduced new booking
and client-management technology for its home-based program.
Company Facts
• Operates Carlson Travel Franchise Group and
Carlson Destination Marketing services (sales not
included in Power List ranking).
• Privately held.
15
TRAVIZON
2006 Sales: $732 million
Employees: 436
Previous Ranking: 18
10 State St., 2nd Floor
Woburn, MA 01801
15
T (888) 781-5200
F (781) 343-6128
www.travizon.com
Executives
CEO: Joel Smith
PRESIDENT: Jeffrey Smith
COO/CFO: Matthew Cummings
CTO: Lehi Mills
EXECU TIVE VP, ACCOUNT SERVICES: Anita
Salvatore
EXECUTIVE VP, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT:
Therese Kelleher
2006 Developments
• ARC sales of $389 million.
• 85% of sales from business, 5% from leisure,
10% from meetings.
• Opened an office dedicated to VIP services; will
enable Travizon to further customize its VIP services.
• Opened two fully owned Canadian offices in
Toronto and Vancouver.
• Continued to develop and build
NexusReporting suite (a data aggregation and analysis tool). Added a dashboard component, providing clients with an at-a-glance,
graphical view of all data related to their travel
program.
• Dashboard also allows for a centralized launching point for all analytical reporting, enhancing
clients’ ability to identify trends, flag and prevent
violations, track and adjust contract usage and
demonstrate cost savings.
TOP 10
MOST VISITED TRAVEL WEB SITES, BY UNIQUE VISITORS
Site Visitors Visitors
April 2007 April 2006
24.4M 27.3M
18.5M N/A
10.9M 11.4M
10.3M 13.2M
9.2M 9.7M
8M 8.1M
5.4M 6.1M
% Change
Expedia Inc.
Travelport*
Southwest
Travelocity
Yahoo Travel
Priceline.com Inc.
American
(11%)
N/A
(4%)
(22%)
(5%)
(1%)
(11%)
Travel Ad Network 5M
Delta 4.7M
Marriott 4.5M
* Travelport includes Orbitz, Cheaptickets and other brands.
N/A
5.5M
5.1M
N/A
(16%)
(12%)