Odds are you haven’t met Ethan yet — but you should. Who is he you ask, and why should you get to know him?

I'm a baseball nerd, so I keep a special place for all kinds of unique numbers. Anyone running a baseball team can’t adequately judge the club without a myriad of traditional statistics and advanced metrics. If you’ve seen Moneyball with Brad Pitt, you know that meticulously gathering data can give your side a huge advantage, even when you’re working with a budget a tenth of the size of the Yankees. The same goes for travel buyers.

Negotiating rates and preferred properties with hoteliers is not an easy task. We enlisted the help of travel experts across GetThere to gather 5 quick tips for negotiating your corporate hotel rates.

Are you aware that GetThere helps you understand and creatively leverage big data to your benefit? We can help you better understand your company's data in an impactful way and benchmark your program against companies of like size or industry.

My GetThere team and I recently spent a couple of intense days preparing for the September roll-out of our new, patent-pending virtual meetings product. It was exciting not only for us to get immersed in GetThere Virtual Meetings, but to think about how it will change the way we – and you – do business.