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Is your organization reaping the benefits that a targeted and consolidated corporate travel supplier base yields? Discounted rates and free upgrades are a couple of the advantages that come from selecting the best air, car and hotel suppliers for your organization’s needs.  How do you go about optimizing your supplier base?   A review of…

America’s national parks stretch from Maine to Hawaii. They’re places of incomparable natural beauty and a visit to at least one – if not more ­–­ should be on every traveler’s bucket list.   If you’re planning a national park vacation in 2018, here are some tips to get you started. And remember, your travel…

Alaska cruises topped the list of the most booked domestic vacation destinations in Travel Leaders Group’s annual survey of more than 1,300 of its travel agents. Caribbean cruises retained the top spot for international travel, with European river cruises and Mediterranean cruises among the top five destinations.   Consumers are increasingly recognizing the ease, value…

Challenge In the course of a company’s growth, at some point it realizes that managing its employee travel has outgrown its internal capabilities and must be managed by professionals to lower costs and free up valuable employee time. A fast-growing insurance and financial strategies firm with offices around the Midwest and Southern United States had…

Challenge A Midwest-based chemical production plant became concerned with travel risk management after a group of their senior executives traveling abroad to meet with a contractor partner found themselves stuck in an unfamiliar airport in a desolate area of a city after having missed their connecting flight. Due to the remoteness of the city, flights…

For many companies, private aviation is the solution to a particular need or set of needs that commercial aviation cannot meet. Time savings, geographic reach and security are some of the more common benefits that compel businesses to make private aviation a component of their travel programs. For a particular subset of a company’s travelers,…

Travel Leaders / Destinations Unlimited Announces New Partner American Enterprise Group, Inc.

April 9, 2018 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Travel Leaders / Destinations Unlimited, a Cedar Rapids-based travel management company, today announced a new partner, American Enterprise Group, Inc. (AEG), an insurance holding company located in Des Moines, Iowa. The announcement was made by Owner/CEO Duane Jasper.   “We are pleased to have been selected as…

For many colleges and universities, at least half of the annual travel budget can be attributed to athletic programs, which means there can be a lot of pressure to control those costs. In addition, booking all of that travel is extremely time consuming. For those reasons, most higher education institutions choose to outsource the management…

Study abroad programs are more important than ever, for both students and higher education institutions. The ever increasing interconnectedness of our world requires college graduates to be globally savvy, which in turn, has created the need for colleges and universities to provide cross-cultural communication skills, a global perspective, and additional language capabilities. Study abroad programs…

Travel Leaders / Destinations Unlimited Announces New Partner Iowa State University

March 26, 2018– Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Travel Leaders / Destinations Unlimited, a Cedar Rapids-based travel management company and Corporate Travel Planners (CTP), today announced a new partner, Iowa State University, a public land-grant university located in Ames, Iowa. The announcement was made by Owner/CEO Duane Jasper.   “We are proud to be part of…

Corridor Conference on Business Travel Returns to The Hotel at Kirkwood Center

March 20, 2018 – Cedar Rapids, Iowa – Travel Leaders / Destinations Unlimited’s Corridor Conference on Business Travel returns to The Hotel at Kirkwood Center (7725 Kirkwood Boulevard Southwest, Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52404) on May 22, 2018. Businesses across Iowa are invited to attend.   The bi-annual event will be held from 11:15 a.m. until…

More and more companies are addressing bleisure (business + leisure travel) in their travel policies.  They know their travelers might add a few personal days to a business trip to explore an interesting city, but those instances are addressed individually and often times leave the traveler and their company with multiple understandings around payment responsibility,…