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TQ3 is a business travel agency equally owned from 2004 to 2006 by TUI, the world’s largest tour operator, and Navigant International, the second largest US business travel agency.⁶⁷ TQ3 had revenues of $10 billion in 2005, doing business in 80 countries. While Navigant kept its share, in 2006 TUI sold its part to Dutch BCD. Simultaneously, BCD changed its strategy from being a business travel organizer to becoming a global travel logistics provider. BCD is the third largest business travel agency (next to American Express and Carlson Wagonlit) with revenues of $12 billion in 2007 and activities in almost one hundred countries. The merger has made BCD market leader in several European countries, including Germany, Benelux and Denmark, and among the top five in USA, UK and Italy.