Industry meeting with foresight – The Swiss Travel Management Forum 2025 At the Swiss Travel Management Forum (STMF) on February 27, 2025, more than 150 industry experts, providers, and decision-makers from the travel industry gathered at the Dolder Grand Hotel in Zurich to discuss the future of business travel. TravelBrain was also involved in organizing…
The business trip in transition – challenges and opportunities The Finass Business Travel Workshop 2024 has successfully concluded, and as usual, TravelBrain would like to give you a review of this high-profile event. Under the motto “The business trip in transition – challenges and opportunities,” the workshop offered exciting insights and valuable networking opportunities at…
Climate goals in business travel is the current hot topic in travel management. Travel management companies, online travel agencies and providers of online booking tools are all working hard to make the emissions of business trips visible as early as the booking process. The aim is to show booking and traveling employees how and where…
With virtual panel discussion on “The Future is now – Hotels post Covid-19” At long last I could finally meet again with industry colleagues and travel managers. Live and in colour at the brand new cititzenM hotel in Geneva where the ASTM had initiated a fully Covid19 compatible hybrid event to commemorate the opening of…
Our travelBrain consultants and travelBrain freelancers belong to the exclusive circle of consultants with TripBam certification. We are therefore able to support our customers in the use of the TripBam Intelligence Platform and the associated optimization of their own hotel programs. “Daily Rate Shopping”, “Smart Sourcing” and “Smart Share Shift” are only some of the…
As usual, lots of business travel events will take place in autumn. Hardly a week without a customer event of a TMC or a regional or even international major event. That makes the decision where we should be present with our teams very difficult. With the ACTE Global Summit 2019 in Amsterdam, one of the…
Who did the turn on the clock? Time again for budgeting! In many regions, the summer holidays are not over yet, and yet those responsible should already start planning for the business travel year 2020. It appears to me that the forecast of costs in the business travel sector is published a little earlier each…
Shortly after TravelPerk has raised an incredible USD 60 million in another financing round, the business travel start-up announces with FlexiPerk, the largest new product launch in the last 10 years: An option for the refund of cancelled tickets. If the option is chosen by customers, a 10% surcharge will be payable on each booking.…
On Thursday evening, the first Travel Start-up Night took place at a-ja Zürich City Resort. Even though the Swiss version of the Travel Industry Club (TIC) and Internet Travel Sales Association (VIR) events were co-organized by Kuoni Business Travel, the topic of “business travel” was only marginally present. In fact, start-ups from a wide range…
After his decision to leave HRG at the end of December 2018 it took only three months before Ralf Dörig is back on the stage, taking over responsibility for the business travel unit of the family business Kuster Reisen in Rapperswil. At the same time, he will act as deputy managing director in the company.…