Issue areas declared on the filings, ranked by how many filings name each one.
Travel/Tourism
TOU · 1 client
45 filings
$3.8M on those filings
Science/Technology
SCI · 1 client
39 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Aviation/Airlines/Airports
Who does the lobbying
Every lobbyist named on this registrant's filings.
Michael LiptakCovered position: Legislative Correspondent, Senator Mitch McConnell32 filings1 client · through 2022
Laura ChadwickCovered position: Legislative Assistant, Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-05), 2008-200912 filings1 client · through 2025
Robin Reck9 filings1 client · through 2013
Nicole BrewinCovered position: Vice President, Government Affairs7 filings1 client · through 2024
Joseph Rubin
Foreign interests disclosed
Every foreign entity named on this registrant's filings.
Amadeus
Spain
3 filings
through 2013
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
The filings
The 20 most recent of 47 filings. Every figure above is built from these records.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: travel-tech-the-travel-technology-association.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $3.8M in expenses.
AVI · 1 client
39 filings
$3.7M on those filings
Consumer Issues/Safety/Products
CSP · 1 client
33 filings
$2.4M on those filings
Transportation
TRA · 1 client
30 filings
$1.2M on those filings
Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace
LBR · 1 client
26 filings
$1M on those filings
Budget/Appropriations
BUD · 1 client
24 filings
$940K on those filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
6 filings
$1.9M on those filings
Defense
DEF · 1 client
2 filings
$618K on those filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore money on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Covered position: Legislative Director, Cong George Gekas
5 filings1 client · through 2012
David WadeCovered position: Consultant4 filings1 client · through 2024
Brandon PalumboCovered position: Correspondence Manager, Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), 2017; Legislative Assistant, Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), 2021-20233 filings1 client · through 2025
Covered positions · 6 of 7 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
