Northstar Travel Group

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Northstar Travel Group
Company type Privately held company
Industry Travel
Founded6 August 2001  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Headquarters Secaucus, New Jersey, U.S.
Owner JTB Corporation
Website www.northstartravelgroup.com   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Northstar Travel Group (NTG) is a publications and event management company focused on the travel industry. The firm is headquartered in Secaucus, New Jersey.

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Its brands include Business Travel News, Travel Procurement, The Beat, Travel Weekly, [1] Travel Pulse, TravelAge West, Travel Weekly China, Successful Meetings, Meetings & Conventions, Incentive, M&C China, Travel42, Axus Travel App, and Web in Travel. It also owns Phocuswright, a research, business intelligence, and event producer serving the travel technology industry, and its publication, Phocuswire.

It produces more than 80 events in 13 countries related to the travel industry, including the Phocuswright Conference, ALIS (the largest hotel investment conference in the world; produced with the American Hotel and Lodging Association annually in Los Angeles), The Business Travel Show, The Meetings Show, Web in Travel, CruiseWorld, Global Travel Marketplace, and TEAMS. The firm owns a majority of Inntopia. [2] [3]

Print media accounts for 18% of total revenue, events accounts for 39.2% of revenue, and digital revenue accounts for 42.7% of revenue. [4]

History

In 1989, Reed International (now RELX) acquired Travel Weekly, Meetings & Conventions and the hotel databases from Murdoch Magazines and formed Reed Travel Group. [5] [6] In 1998, Reed Travel Group was renamed Cahners Travel Group.

In 2001, Boston Ventures acquired Cahners Travel Group and renamed it Northstar Travel Group. [7] [8] [9] In 2012, Boston Ventures Investment Partners sold the company to Wicks Group. [10]

In October 2019, three years after being acquired by Wasserstein & Co., [3] the company purchased travAlliancemedia, owner of TravelPulse.com and TravelPulse Canada, Buying Business Travel, covering the corporate travel market, and CAT Media, which serves the meetings and incentives industries. [4]

In October 2025, it was announced that Japan's JTB Corporation had completed its acquisition of NTG. [11]

References

  1. ↑ Morrison, Colin (October 11, 2019). "What next for Northstar Travel?". Flashes & Flames. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  2. ↑ "Northstar Travel Group acquires Buying Business Travel Media" (Press release). PR Newswire. October 8, 2019.
  3. 1 2 "Wasserstein Acquires Northstar Travel Group From Wicks". The Wall Street Journal . June 7, 2016.
  4. 1 2 Silber, Tony (November 20, 2019). "Northstar Travel Group Offers A Model For B2B Media Growth". Forbes .
  5. ↑ "Our Company: History". www.northstartravelgroup.com. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  6. ↑ Foltz, Kim (January 30, 1991). "Cuts by the Travel Industry Adding to Publishers' Woes". The Media Business: Advertising. The New York Times . p. 15. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 4, 2023. Bill Scott, vice president and group publisher at the Reed Travel Group, said that since the start of the war there had been a 'substantial reduction' in advertising at the company's Travel Weekly magazine.
  7. ↑ "GEORGE HUNDLEY, NORTHSTAR TRAVEL MEDIA". Ad Age . November 6, 2008.
  8. ↑ "Boston Ventures Announces the Acquisition of the Cahners Travel Group". Hospitality Net. 14 August 2001.
  9. ↑ "Cahners Travel Group Renamed NORTHSTAR Travel Media LLC". Hospitality Net. 5 November 2001.
  10. ↑ "BV Investment Sells Northstar Travel Media to Wicks Group". The Wall Street Journal . July 9, 2012.
  11. ↑ "JTB Completes Acquisition of Northstar Travel Group". Northstar Meetings Group. Retrieved 2025-10-06.
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