ACTE United States

Regional Spotlight:

• An Immediate Opportunity Not To Be Missed! -- ACTE Global Exchange Program - Singapore
  
  
• La Quinta Corporation Reports Status of Hotels Impacted by Hurricane Katrina. Click here for detals.
• Just Announced! Dates and Venue for the 2006 Global Education Conference: Conference to be held 7-9 May, 2006 at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia.
  
  
• ACTE President Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Aviation. Click here for details
  
  
• Amendment to the advanced passenger information system (APIS). Click here for details
  
  
• ACTE President: No Privacy Act Exemptions for Mega DHS Database. Click here for details
  
  
• ACTE is pleased to announce a new and aggressive events schedule for Executive Forums, PowerTalks, and Webcasts for 2006. Click here for details
  
  

ACTE welcomes the new US Regional Chair:
Richard Case

Dear Colleagues:

The Association of Corporate Travel Executives' Global Educational Conference in Atlanta this year (May 7-9) will be the most significant travel management event of 2006. With the threat of avian influenza expected to appear in the U.S. no later than mid-May, ACTE has brought the leading authorities on the subject -- including Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- together for the kind of briefing generally reserved for White House officials. The potential for pandemic is being regarded as the greatest threat to commerce and travel since 1917.

Yet looking beyond the obvious, ACTE has crafted an educational program designed to cover all the new hot spots in advanced travel management techniques, while emphasizing skills and strategies that will increase your corporate influence and earning potential. The Atlanta Conference is about saving your company money. All the key sessions on procurement, distribution, consolidation, benchmarking, and doing business in India, China, and the Gulf are there. These sessions are backed by vital new interactive sessions -- like the Moot Court -- in which the future of business travel managers will be argued by two of the most renowned attorneys in our profession.

Cost containment continues to be a driving force in corporate planning. But some of the biggest areas in which costs can be contained now exist outside the traditional business travel sector -- hidden in new government regulations and procedures regarding everything from security to health, and from additional taxation to corporate social responsibility. The Atlanta conference will define what you can control as a travel management professional, and what our association can do, and will do, on your company's behalf.

Globalization is a term that is used frequently by our industry. Every organization states their desire to be global and argues that it provides the international education and networking that our industry needs. ACTE does not just talk about being global – it is global. Our members come from over 40 countries. I would also like to note that the conference faculty comes from 8 countries underscoring the international nature of ACTE.

This is especially helpful when virtually every challenge facing the industry is international.

So if you haven not yet registered for the ACTE Global Educational Conference in April, I suggest you do so today. Opportunity usually knocks once... It's going to knock for three days in Atlanta.

Sincerely,

Richard Case