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Expedia: the action's in corporate.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 25-AUG-03 		Format: Online - approximately 912 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Expedia has invested more than $10 million in its corporate travel products, not including what it spent last year for Metropolitan Travel, according to president and CEO Erik Blachford. "There's nothing more exciting going on in travel right now than what you see in corporate travel, "he told the crowd at the National Business Travel Association convention in Dallas this month. "And it's a completely different animal from leisure travel." BTN executive editor Jay Campbell met with Blachford and vice president of corporate travel Matt Hulett at the convention for an update on Expedia Corporate Travel

BTN: Some booking providers are offering a single solution that makes them essentially an online agency (see story, page 8). Why did Expedia decide it had to own the service by buying Met?

Erik Blachford: We thought about outsourcing....

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