Five years ago Air Routing established its own in-house travel desk to assist with flight crew hotel bookings. The Air Routing Travel Desk provides clients with not only time efficiency but with quality information about each hotel. Web-based programs may have information about 20,000 properties worldwide and focus primarily on the leisure travel market. Our data base has over 60,000 properties and besides listing pertinent information about each property, there is specific information about corporate travel industry rates. Kaaren Scoggins, with more than 24 years of travel experience is ARI’s travel manager. “Today we book hotel rooms for our clients’ flight crews every place a corporate jet can land and stay on the ground for more than a few hours. We’ve booked hotels worldwide in virtually every country.” Scoggins said. ARI has seen tremendous growth in travel to the Far East, particularly to China and to cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Guangzhou.   ARI depends on a great deal on our in-house data as well our ground handlers throughout the world, many of whom are ARI employees