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Article Excerpt
Security concerns have continued since Sept. 11, 2001--threats to travelers still abound, ranging from man-made terrorist threats at London's Heathrow airport to events brought on by Mother Nature, such as 2005's Hurricane Katrina. The business travel industry, however, has adapted. Since that cataclysmic event, corporations have placed an ongoing emphasis on traveler tracking, and risk management firms and travel management companies have responded with technologies and expertise to help companies ensure the safety of their business travelers and employees working abroad.
Successive disasters have prompted travel risk management companies IJet Intelligent Risk Systems and International SOS and several travel management companies to further upgrade their offerings.
"Enhancements are very much driven by an incident occurring and a company saying, 'Here are the holes and the gaps in ability to respond efficiently and effectively to that incident,' "said Marty Pfinsgraff, COO of IJet, which earlier this month announced signing Trondent Development Corp. as its global data consolidation partner.
"London brought us a whole new set of scenarios that frankly none of us had put our heads around until we saw this major air traffic-disruption scenario," echoed Tim Daniel, COO of International SOS. "It's...
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