The Year Ahead – Top BCD Travel brass predict continued growth in 2008

In keeping with tradition, BCD Travel’s executive team is ushering in the new year by turning its gaze beyond the next horizon.

Three of our top executives discuss a handful of trends they expect will affect BCD Travel in the year ahead.

Dee Runyan

Executive Vice President, Products, Technology and Supplier Relations

First, BCD Travel’s commitment of a seasoned veteran

UK visa rules to impact Aussies

Around 45,000 travellers heading to the UK from Australia will face finger scans and digital photographs as part of a tightening of British visa laws. Although most Australians travelling on holiday or for business do not require a visa, VisitBritain estimated that five per cent of the 900,000 people travelling from Australia to the UK will be affected.

Under the

Airlines tackle card fees – but will customers be the losers?

Carriers want to reduce the expensive fees they pay to card companies – and they could make their move this year. If they do, corporate clients may be the ones to pick up the bill.

One key development in business travel many observers believe could happen in 2008 is airlines starting to avoid or pass on the fees charged to

Heathrow’s Big Bang – Open Skies and Terminal 5 to transform world’s busiest international airport

More international travelers pass through London Heathrow than any other airport. This coming March, two major developments within three days of each other will take its annual passenger count of 67.7 million to an even higher level. Terminal 5 opens on March. 27, followed on Mar. 30 by a massive expansion in transatlantic service when the EU-U.S. Open Skies agreement