It's natural to look askance at HRS when executives say they'll do your hotel sourcing for free. We'll get to that. The other story on hotel sourcing partners this year is whether we're at peak Lanyon.

To manage the onerous hotel rate negotiating process, corporations and travel management companies turn to technology. Lanyon has been the go-to partner for years. One TMC source said it is really the only choice for large programs.

This year opened with Lanyon cutting several dozen employees in multiple departments, according . . .

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Jay Campbell

Before starting The Company Dime with David Jonas in 2014, journalist Jay Campbell a decade earlier created travel business newsletter The Beat. In 2006, Jay co-founded Travel Procurement magazine and in 2010 helped integrate them with Business Travel News. He served as BTN's editorial director until 2013. Jay made his travel industry media debut in 1993 at the Air Travel Journal of Boston while earning his undergraduate degree in journalism at Boston University. He would be happy to connect on LinkedIn. He's here at CorporateTravel.social on Mastodon.