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    <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:05:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Gearing Up for TravelCom ‘09: Vote for TravelMuse</title>
      <link>http://www.travelmuse.com/community/blogs/travelmuse-company-blog/2009/03/20/gearing-up-for-travelcom-09-vote-for-travelmuse</link>
      <description>&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyStart:8faa7fe9-fad3-4422-82c6-cc59204b3ba8] --&gt;&lt;div class='jive-rendered-content'&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.travelmuse.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/showImage/38-1346-1345/Travelcom.png"&gt;&lt;img height="117" src="http://www.travelmuse.com/community/servlet/JiveServlet/downloadImage/38-1346-1345/544-117/Travelcom.png" width="544"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the end of this month, key players from within the travel industry will gather in &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.travelmuse.com/destinations/US/GA/121/atlanta"&gt;Atlanta&lt;/a&gt; to participate in the U.S. Travel Association&amp;rsquo;s &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://tia.org/industrymeet/TravelCom/index.html"&gt;Travelcom&amp;rsquo;09&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The conference will celebrate Southwest Airlines&amp;rsquo; founder and chairman emeritus, Herb Kelleher, who will receive the Steve Fossett Innovation Award.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Noted industry analyst Henry Harteveldt will give a keynote speech on &amp;ldquo;The State of the Industry 360&amp;mdash;There Is No Room for Maybe in These Uncertain Times&amp;#8221; where he will focus on the latest 2009 Technographics data from Forrester Research. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The industry&amp;rsquo;s two newly appointed leaders, Barney Harford (president and CEO, Orbitz Worldwide) and Hugh Jones (president and CEO, Travelocity Global), will discuss challenges for the industry from an executive viewpoint.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Kevin Fliess, &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.travelmuse.com/"&gt;TravelMuse&lt;/a&gt; CEO, will particpate in a panel alongside Sam Shank (CEO, Dealbase.com), Gregg Brockway (CEO,TripIt) and Yen Lee (president, UpTake). They will be discussing &amp;ldquo;The New Digital Opportunities That Make Sense in a Challenging Business Environment&amp;#8221; moderated by Vela McClam Mitchell (president and CEO, Market Designs, LLC). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It looks set to be an extremely informative conference amoung the industry&amp;rsquo;s leaders. There is still time to register for the conference, and you may even want to take advantage of the &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.tia.org/industrymeet/TravelCom/registration_info.html"&gt;multi-staff discount&lt;/a&gt;, where you can buy three registrations for the price of two! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the meantime, TravelMuse has been nominated for the &lt;strong&gt;TravelCom Innovator of the Year Award&lt;/strong&gt;, sponsored by Kayak, which will be awarded at the &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.travelmuse.com/properties/us/ga/30303/omni-hotel-at-cnn-center"&gt;Omni Hotel at CNN Center&lt;/a&gt; in Atlanta. We&amp;rsquo;d love your vote&amp;mdash;simply click &lt;a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://video.tia.travelscream.com/landing"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;strong&gt;vote for TravelMuse&lt;/strong&gt; before March 23!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;!-- [DocumentBodyEnd:8faa7fe9-fad3-4422-82c6-cc59204b3ba8] --&gt;</description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:29:48 GMT</pubDate>
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