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Alexandria, VA (May 18, 2009) -- The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) – the world’s largest business travel industry organization – presented its 2009 Alan Fredericks Business Travel Journalism Award to Stanley Slaughter, Editor, Air & Business Travel News (ABTN). Slaughter was honored for his prolific and widespread coverage of the business travel industry, as well as his insightful commentary. Now in its third year, this is the first time the award was presented during Crossroads the pan-European Business Travel Conference & Expo held in Paris last week and co-hosted by the Paragon Partnership alliance of business travel associations and 12 business travel organizations from around the world.

NBTA President & CEO, Kevin Maguire, CCTE, GLP, said, “Stanley is an example of the finest in business travel industry journalism. He is incredibly prolific – often publishing three or fours stories a day. He is dedicated to both his craft and the industry he covers – as demonstrated by his travelers throughout Europe and across the globe to gather the most pertinent stories. And he is insightful – delivering both news coverage and commentary that shed light on the most important industry topics.”

The NBTA Alan Fredericks Business Travel Journalism Award is awarded each year to recognize the important role of media in the business travel industry by honoring an outstanding travel journalist or editor whose work over the last 12-18 months has done the most to enlighten corporate travel professionals, the business community, and/or the general public about important topics is business travel, and has done so in a way that is generally beneficial for and supportive of the industry. The award is named in memory Alan Fredericks, long-time travel industry journalist who finished his career as Editor-in-Chief of Travel Weekly. The honor was previously bestowed upon Roger Yu of USA Today (2007) and Susan Avery of Purchasing Magazine (2008).

Maguire continued, “I have had the dual privileges of reading Stanley’s articles for many years and of working with him on a number of stories. From both perspectives, I can say he deserves the recognition of NBTA’s Business Travel Journalism Award. I look forward to many more years of to reading his work.”

The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world’s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates – NBTA Australia / New Zealand, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Europe, NBTA Mexico, and NBTA USA – serve a network of more than 17,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 5,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 13 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org