In 1989, Reed International (now
RELX) acquired Travel Weekly, Meetings & Conventions and the hotel databases from Murdoch Magazines and formed Reed Travel Group. In 1998, Reed Travel Group was renamed Cahners Travel Group. In 2001, Boston Ventures acquired Cahners Travel Group and renamed it Northstar Travel Group. In 2012, Boston Ventures Investment Partners sold the company to Wicks Group. In October 2019, three years after being acquired by Wasserstein & Co., 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. In October 2025, it was announced that
Japan's
JTB Corporation had completed its acquisition of NTG. ==References==