Partners

Relationships power our industry. That's why StarCite has so carefully chosen its partners — leading companies that will help drive success for our customers, and for StarCite.

• Service Bureau
• Solution
• Technology

Service Bureau

		C Agency C-Agency is a comprehensive conference planning company offering a wide range of services designed to assist academic institutes and corporations with the management of meetings. The company provides a full service to ensure meetings run smoothly and efficiently. Each client receives personal attention and each meeting is planned to a client's specific needs. C-Agency has highly skilled and professional staff with a lot of experience in planning for meetings both large and small, to ensure that every meeting is a success.
		VariArts VariArts is a travel design and management company, specialized in providing world-class travel and event services throughout the People’s Republic of China. Since 2005, VariArts has been supplying top international organizations with the full range of MICE services. In addition, VariArts remains the leading destination management company for the facilitation of unconventional themed travel itineraries.
		HRG HRG is an award-winning international corporate travel services company established in 1845 and operating from headquarters in Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK. Their interests include owned or controlled corporate travel services operations in 25 key driver/growth markets throughout North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, supported by a network of contracted partners. The HRG network extends to nearly 120 countries.
		Kaleva Travel Kaleva Travel provides business and leisure travel agency services in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Romania. The company offers routine business travel, customized travel, sport travel, trade fair travel, and group tour services to business and leisure travelers, as well as travel services to Russia, the CIS countries, and the Baltic region. It also provides tours with themes, such as golf, racing, and various marathons. The company was founded in 1935 and is based in Helsinki, Finland. Kaleva Travel operates as a subsidiary of Juuranto Group. Kaleva Travel operates as Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associate.
		Acclaim Meetings Acclaim Meetings is a division of the American Marketing Group (AMG) Family of Companies, which has been in business for 38 years and owns 16 highly successful travel-related companies including NEST, TRAVELSAVERS and The Affluent Traveler. Magazine. AMG has strong relationships and significant leverage within the hotel industry, a clear benefit when planning corporate meetings. With access to a Global Preferred Hotel Program including more than 76,000 properties, Acclaim has the leverage and power to deliver the best possible group rates at the best properties available.
		American Express Business Travel American Express Business Travel is one of the world's largest travel agencies and the leading global provider of commercial cards. Through its Corporate Services group, the company counts more than 70 percent of the Fortune 500, along with tens of thousands of mid-sized companies, as customers of its Business Travel, Corporate Card, Corporate Purchasing Card and Consulting services.
		Carlson Wagonlit Travel Carlson Wagonlit Travel is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and is the full-service flagship travel franchise brand from Travel Acquisitions Group. Tours, cruises, escorted and independent travel - for individuals and groups - are sold by the division's travel experts in all fifty states. The retail division, a network of company-owned and independent Associate locations, also manages commercial travel accounts of medium and small-sized companies. Through a network of over 500 Carlson Wagonlit Travel retail offices we promise, "When your journey from a dream to a great story includes us, you travel better." Carlson Wagonlit Travel Associates enable you to book travel by any means you prefer, including via this Web site with the experience of local travel experts never being more than a phone call away. Through the agency locator, you can locate the agency nearest you.
		Experient Experient is the nation's largest meeting management and event services company. With a vision to perfect the event experience and a mission to help bring people together to drive business, we bring together three great companies, each a leader in its field. ExpoExchange is the largest provider of registration services, attendee management and show floor services, and sales lead retrieval services for trade shows and large meetings. ITS offers integrated housing, pre-registration and travel services to individual events and CVBs. Conferon is the largest independent meeting planning firm, providing site research and selection, contract analysis and negotiations, and comprehensive planning and on-site meeting support services. Experient managed over 2,800 events attended by more than 3.2 million people, and booked or managed more than 4.2 million room nights for clients in 2005.
		Maritz Travel Company Maritz Travel Company is the global leader in meeting, event and incentive travel management services. With the recent acquisitions of McGettigan Partners, a leading meeting consolidation firm and FCI GmbH, a German-based meeting planning firm, revenues for Maritz Travel Company have reached $1 billion. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Maritz Travel Company employs 2,500 business professionals who help Fortune 1000 companies achieve their business objectives by providing a comprehensive mix of products and services. Maritz Travel Company is owned by Maritz Inc., a privately held company founded in 1894 and the largest single source of performance improvement, travel and marketing research services in the world.

Solution

		meetings360 meetings360 is an end-to-end global meetings management solution. meetings360 was developed by American Express and StarCite to help solve for companies' meetings management issues. Through this on-line tool, companies gain meetings spend visibility and meeting planning process controls that allow for maximum savings.

Technology

		Amadeus Amadeus is the chosen technology partner for providers, sellers, and buyers of travel. The company provides distribution, IT and point-of-sale solutions to help its customers adapt, grow and succeed in the fast-changing travel industry. Customer groups include travel providers (airlines, hotels, car rental companies, railway companies, ferry lines, cruise lines, insurance companies and tour operators), travel sellers (travel agencies) and travel buyers (corporations and travelers). Solutions are grouped in four solution categories – Distribution & Content, Sales & e-Commerce, Business Management and Services & Consulting.
		Concur Cliqbook Concur is the world’s leading provider of on-demand Employee Spend Management services. Concur enables organizations to globally control costs by automating the processes they use to manage employee spending. Concur’s end-to-end solutions seamlessly unite online travel booking with automated expense reporting, streamline meeting management and optimize the process of managing vendor payments, employee check requests and direct reimbursements.
		GetThere GetThere is the world’s leading global online corporate travel procurement solution, surpassing $9 billion in gross travel bookings in 2007. Through its unique technology sharing arrangement with Travelocity(R), GetThere is an established innovator in the travel arena. GetThere enables global corporations and government agencies to provide a convenient way for employees to book travel and plan meetings online while significantly reducing costs. GetThere estimates that corporations using the GetThere system collectively saved more than $600 million in airfare in 2007. GetThere's advanced technology works with all major global distribution systems (GDS) and all travel management companies. More than 3,000 corporations, including a majority of Fortune 200 companies that have online booking sites, use GetThere.
		Newmarket International Newmarket International, Inc. is the leader in delivering sales, group catering and event software solutions to the global hospitality and entertainment industries. Newmarket International’s suite of business solutions can be found in hotels, casinos, restaurants, visitor bureaus, stadiums, meeting arenas and convention centers throughout the world. Newmarket International has over 70,000 users worldwide, with over 10,000 installations in over 110 countries. Newmarket International is headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, with international offices in Cologne (Germany), London, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.
		Orbitz for Business Orbitz for Business serves over 2,000 corporate customers and more than a million business travelers. Launched in 2002, Orbitz for Business was one of the first full-service managed business travel programs offered by an online agency. Orbitz for Business includes a portfolio of business travel products for small to large companies. Its products include self managed services for small business, managed travel services with fulfillment and service support and international capabilities.
		Pegasus Dallas-based Pegasus Solutions, Inc. is a global leader in providing technology and services to hotels and travel distributors. Founded in 1989, Pegasus’ customers include a majority of the world’s travel agencies and more than 86,000 hotel properties around the globe. Pegasus’ services include central reservation systems, electronic distribution services, commission processing and payment services, and marketing representation services, including the consumer Web site, www.hotelbook.com. The company’s representation services, including Utell® Hotels & Resorts and Unirez by Pegasus™, are used by more than 9,300 member hotels in more than 130 countries, making Pegasus the hotel industry’s largest third-party marketing and reservations provider. Pegasus has 18 offices in 11 countries, including regional hubs in London, Singapore and Scottsdale, Arizona.