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Ground cos. see RFPs jump.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 20-MAR-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Chauffeured transportation companies are nothing sizeable increases in the number of requests for proposals they receive from corporate travel as more businesses move the service--usually a small fraction of a travel budget--into a managed program.

Bruce Mainzer, senior vice president of marketing for Carey International, said he saw the number of RFPs triple during the fall of 2005 compared with the previous year. That increased pace is holding steady into the first quarter of this year, he said.

Likewise. Dav El Chauffeured Transportation president Scott Solombrino said his company saw a 30 percent increase last year in the number of RFPs seeking to centralize ground transportation programs. BostonCoach sees a similar trend.

"We've been seeing an increase in RFPs, not a lot of RFPs that we respond to, but we definitely see an increase both from existing clients as well as new clients," BostonCoach CEO Jonathan Danforth...

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