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CORPORATE TRAVEL MANAGEMENT (CTM) and TRAVELOGIC (TL) join forces to create the largest privately owned TMC in AUSTRALIA

July 01, 2008Sydney – July 1. Effective the 1st of July 2008 GlobalStar Australia - Travelogic will merge operations with Corporate Travel Management (CTM) to become Australia’s major alternative to the multinational Travel Management Company’s (TMC’s). CTM and TL are the two largest privately owned TMC’s in Australia. Combined they realize a turnover of approximately A$370m (US$330m) per annum, serviced to the highest standard by close to 280 staff, working from multi-award winning offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, and The Gold Coast. CTM were in advanced discussions with Travelogic in 1998 regarding the national presence of First Travel Management in Australia. Since then both the companies have developed well alongside each other, and share the same company ethos, culture and IT platform. “Together, we will represent the first logical alternative to the Global TMC’s that operate in Australia, with multi-award winning offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth & the Gold Coast”, according to Mrs. Claire Gray, Executive Director - Travelogic, GlobalStar Australia. "

New Partner in Kenya for GlobalStar Travel Management

June 24, 2008GlobalStar welcomes our 75th member, Travelshoppe Company Ltd. This renowned Travel agency, based in Nairobi, is one of the largest in Kenya. With over two decades of experience between them, the Managing Director Seema Raval and Marketing Director Monique Gardel have attributed to the success of this company and its name in the industry. Seema Raval, MD of Travelshoppe states that: “Joining GlobalStar Travel Management is our next step in promoting growth of our company in the field of business travel in Kenya”

GlobalStar Travel Management Reaches for the Stars!

June 19, 2008GlobalStar 6th Annual Conference Dubai 2008 10 - 14 May 2008 Dubai London – GlobalStars 6th annual conference, this year held in the United Arab Emirates – Dubai was considered the most successful GlobalStar conference ever. The multinational travel management partner organization discussed its new vision for the near future whereby it will definitely reach for the stars as the theme of this year’s conference. The conference was opened by Shaikha Lubna Al Quasimi, Minister of foreign trade in the UAE. The enormous change the UAE went through the last couple of years inspired the GlobalStar organization to embrace some major changes.

GlobalStar wins the Synopsys global account

February 29, 2008

GlobalStar TraveLeaders won the Synopsys Global account and will be servicing them worldwide, from 1 March 2008, reemphasizing GlobalStar’s approach of combining partners local expertise, strength and commitment with our global organisation to deliver cohesive, multinational travel solutions through an innovative technology platform.

GlobalStar Travel Management and EventBidder.com in co-operation

February 17, 2008

Meetings and groups travel portal EventBidder.com to be used by GlobalStar partners globally, to search and book hotels and so called destination management companies (DMC's). The GlobalStar travel agency partner network represents 663 offices in 56 countries with US$ 4 billion plus in turnover.

GlobalStar Korea - Global Tour Co. Ltd.

December 06, 2007

GlobalStar appoints Global Tour Co. Ltd. as its partner in Korea. Global Tour Co. Ltd. was founded in November 18, 1960 as the first private travel agent in Korea. With it’s 46 years of experience and expertise, Global Tour Co. Ltd. has been leading Korea’s tourism business and providing it’s loyal customers with qualified service which differentiates Global Tour Co. Ltd. with it’s competitors.

5Q with GlobalStar's Peter Klebanow

September 05, 2007

The more than 50-nation GlobalStar Travel Management network of travel management companies has won corporate travel business on a multinational basis and restructured to support more of the same. It also is collaborating internally on a scale that worldwide chairman Peter Klebanow had not seen previously in the group's five-year history. Also president of Ultramar Travel Management in New York, Klebanow spoke this week with The Transnational about the changes and future.

GlobalStar Yemen - Falcon Travel & Tours

August 31, 2007

Falcon Travel & Tours has been one of the leading Travel Agents in Yemen since 1980, and has joins GlobalStar as it partner in Yemen effective September 2007. The office is located in Hadda Street, which is also known as the “Airlines Road” in the capital of Yemen, Sana’a. In 1984 Falcon Travel was awarded the GSA by Gulf Air. In 1986 Falcon Travel started to serve Corporate Clients by winning the American owned Yemen Hunt Oil Company (YHOC), the first oil exploration company in Yemen.

Third Annual Industry Forum Focuses on Globalisation

May 20, 2007

Local Expertise Fosters Globalization in Travel Management: Key Learning at GlobalStar Forum Third annual travel management industry forum provides insight into globalization ROCHELLE PARK, N.J. (May 22, 2007)

New Appointments

May 19, 2007

Rochelle Park, N.J. (May XX, 2007) - GlobalStar Travel Management, one of the world's leading global travel management partnerships has appointed Bob Morgan and Claire Gray to key executive positions within the organization.