ALTOUR Meetings & Incentives


Mary Sue Leathers, President - M & I
Altour

Case Study: National Retail Grocer

Corporate Headquarters: New York, NY
Meeting & Incentive Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN
(952) 226-9000
www.altour.com

FOUNDED: 1991

LEADERSHIP: Alexandre Chemla, Owner & CEO; Mary Sue Leathers, President, Meetings, Incentives, Performance Improvement

AT A GLANCE: ALTOUR is a leading international travel, meetings and marketing services company, with sales in excess of $1.2B. With 66 offices across the U.S. and international offices in London, Paris, and Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, ALTOUR is a truly global company.

Clients seeking a business partner to help with their meetings can look to ALTOUR for a full range of meeting management services. ALTOUR has experience and expertise in every aspect of meeting planning and execution—plus the relationships and buying power to deliver serious cost savings.  In addition to our meetings business, ALTOUR has capabilities in the following areas:

  • Performance Improvement
  • Business Travel (with special expertise in Corporate, Entertainment and Law Firm markets)
  • Leisure Travel
  • Sports Travel

Our business model is based on the subject matter expertise of our people and a belief in the power of technology. ALTOUR utilizes a range of powerful web-based tools to enhance service delivery. We have developed a proprietary platform called to your advantage for employee, sales and customer programs. We are also a leading value-added reseller of the Concur Travel online booking tool and registration software from SignUp4.  

  • Corporate meetings in 2010: 175
  • Incentive travel programs in 2010: 34
  • Meeting and incentive travel programs held outside the U.S.: 11 %
  • Room nights booked for meetings and incentives: 55,000
  • Revenue from planning and executing meetings and incentives: 10.25 %
  • Full-time employees: 1,210
  • Top customer markets: insurance/financial services, foodservice
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