Travel Weekly Digital Edition

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.

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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.

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TRAVIZON
2006 Sales: $732 million
Employees: 436
Previous Ranking: 18

10 State St., 2nd Floor

Woburn, MA 01801

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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.