American Express Business Travel Goes Web 2.0

www.EmploymentCrossing.com American Express Business Travel will launch its online community for the corporate travel industry on October 31st. Designed as a dynamic network to harness the collective intelligence of the business travel industry, BusinessTravelConneXion.com or BTX will help travel professionals to become more informed and better equipped to optimize their travel and entertainment programs. BTX will enable its community members, including travel buyers, suppliers, technology providers, industry experts and influencers, to offer a wide variety of perspectives, share best practices, build relationships and stay up to date on current research and industry news. Membership to the site will be free, and over 950 industry members have pre-registered to the community. The site will provide social networking tools such as forums, blogs and chats; editorial content from industry experts; and a resource library of downloadable white papers, case studies, surveys, and research. American Express operates one of the world's largest travel agency networks, with $26.4 billion in global travel sales in 2007.

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