Wanderlust World Wanderlust World American Automobile Association, AAA, is a company that specializes in "travel management programs" for a wide-array of clientele. Individuals, small groups or businesses and even large corporations who join AAA often receive services, such as car rental and airplane and train ticket discounts. AAA's Corporate Services have a national hotel consortium program that affords its members reduced costs on domestic and international hotel rooms, for example. The company's Corporate Loyalty Program allows membership groups to even receive airline upgrades for free, as well.
Frequent Business Travelers Club, FBTC, is an organization that specializes in providing its members with business travel resources for small to mid-size companies. Membership benefits include hotel, motel and restaurant discounts, cost reduced car rentals and driver services, and up to 50 percent discounts on airplane tickets with such companies as American Airlines, British Airways, Delta, and United Airlines. FBTC also periodically affords international travelers free and discounted airline tickets with companies such as Cathway Pacific, Singapore Airlines and SAS International.
If you fly overseas extensively, the International Airline Passenger Association, IAPA, is a group that may have the business travel resources you need. As an association that "advocates the need for a voice to speak up for the interests of the individual traveler," IAPA has been around for more than 30 years partnering with such other companies as Europcar, Hertz, Marriott and US Airways to provide tools and business planning resources, such as the "Mileage Junkie" program -- it helps frequent fliers "manage their air miles and hotel points," for example.
The U.S. Department of State website has a tremendous amount of business travel resources for those who go abroad. Resources, such as the commerical and business affairs offices, help American businesses "coordinate trade and investment matters in support of U.S. firms conducting business overseas," for example. With up-to-date information about passports, visas and country laws and governing policies, the website also provides detail about various counties and political climates potentially hazardous to American travelers or even business interests -- it also has an alphbetized index of relavent business travel topics from A to Z.