At Rosenbluth, domestic travel bookings during the last four weeks were 15 percent higher than the month before.

It includes corporate travel booking and reporting.

It includes corporate travel booking, expense report automation, reimbursement, audit, and business intelligence, and corporate card integration.

Quintessentially describes itself as a "luxury lifestyle company" and provides a concierge service that includes travel bookings, restaurant recommendations and access to exclusive events.

Cancellations of travel bookings, particularly of conventions, will have an impact on the local economy until well into 2004, according to recent studies.

Turks start a nine-day religious holiday this weekend, but the economic crisis has soured the mood and translated into a sharp drop in travel bookings.

Countries usually see a drop in overall travel bookings and spending rather than a rise, as happened in Greece and in Beijing.

Other services, like travel booking and expense management, are often priced for each transaction.

From 1998 to 1999, European online travel booking, though admittedly starting at very low levels, grew 280 percent.

But Ms. Shore predicted that within a few years, in-house bookings could well grow to "dwarf" the other categories of online travel booking.