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Siemens Seeks Protection For Corporate Travel Data.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 09-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Siemens Shared Services director of travel management Steven Schoen, alarmed at the extent to which his data is being sold to companies with which he does not even do business, is pursuing a solution with his preferred travel management and global distribution system companies to protect the privacy of employee travel patterns.

During the 2008 hotel request-for-proposals season, individual nonpreferred hoteliers contacted Siemens commodity specialists to ask about gaining more of their business, armed with the number of room nights Siemens booked in the hotels' zip codes. The hotel salespeople were using data purchased from hospitality business intelligence provider TravelClick's Hotelligence database. From the ARC designation and pseudo city codes representing the point of sale, the hoteliers were able to discern Siemens' local marketshare data.

Concerned by the loss of his company's data integrity, Schoen asked BCD Travel and Sabre to consider...

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