Forecast will be out Monday Oct 3!

Well it has been an intensive few weeks but we have just one more compliance hurdle to go through before we can publish our latest and greatest Forecast ever! 

And I can now confirm that new this year are detailed air predictions in more countries in EMEA (Belgium, Netherlands, Switzerland and South Africa), hotel details on 29 more cities in North America (400 in total), 273 more cities in EMEA (400 in total) and two more cities in Latin America (55 in total).

In addition, this year’s Forecast has a more sophisticated car rental predictive model, breaking out base rate price increases from expected increases in average daily rental rates, and provides these details for 15 individual countries in North America and EMEA.

Finally, the 2012 Forecast also includes new gross domestic product (GDP) data by country to provide general economic context and commentary on the impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on prices paid (all currency data points in the Forecast are normalized in USD) to help companies put changes into relevant perspective.

If you do not have access to eXpert insights but would like a copy of the Forecast, it is $495 USD for American Express Global Business Travel clients and $995 for all others this year. We really invest a lot of time, budget, and resources into producing the most comprehensive and detailed Forecast in the industry -- so if benchmarking just one hotel market expected price increases to what suppliers try to get out of you can keep your program costs down, it pays for itself in no time!