This last week was very busy. Once again, I was invited to help mold the content for the summit that was held in The Sheraton, Zurich. And two days prior to the STMF, we with expenseBrain and my colleague Michael Zwickl had already appeared at the Finass Business Travel Workshop in Zurich’s World Trade Center.…
The round of late summer/autumn Business Travel Events opened on September 5th with the Finass Business Travel Workshop by Finass Travel for clients and travel managers. Daniel Wittwer and his team invited participants for the first time to the WTC Zurich-Oerlikon under the banner “Rethink Travel Management Processes”. Our collegue Michael Zwickl also joined the…
Batteries are full again and or teams are ready for new exciting projects. Our experts are ready to help with process analysis and optimisation, implementations of online booking engines or the evaluation and replacement of midoffice solutions. Do you need professional advise for your Travel Risk Management program or want to implement a Profile Management…
The cooperation with our new Risk Management Consultant and Birger Oldorff and Reisesicherheit.ch is showing first results. Last week we have started to increase our activities around Travel Risk Management. In an extensive campaign we have reached out to our current and potential clients to raise awarness for the Duty of Care / Travel Risk…
It has now been a few days ago since we took part in the ACTE Education Forum at the Park Hyatt Zürich on May 11th 2017. ACTE invited folks to an open discussion on digitization in the Travel Industry and its effect on Travel Management under the banner question “Are you digital?”. An exciting forum…
The mockingbirds are hummin’ and the industry press has already picked up the topic and reported about the latest additions to the travelBrain team. With Marco Zweifel and Jean-Daniel Ducret two well-know industry experts have recently joined the company. For the first time in travelBrain’s history we have a direct representation in the French part…
01.02.2017 – The topic leaves no one indifferent nowadays. Terrorism, natural disasters, political upheavals, not only in developing countries! Travel Risk Management and/or Duty of Care are at the top of the to-do list of travel managers, TMCs, travel agents and technology providers. The organizers of the London Business Travel Show recently published a study…
Here at TravelBrain Strategic Meeting Management became a regular topic in many of our client projects. The lead in this area has my colleague Stefan Otter. This is the reason why he recently travelled to Las Vegas to attend the Cvent Connect Convention, one of the largest industry events on this topic. Please read his…
According to a recent communication by CWT, mobile hotel bookings via their App CWT to Go are booming. It looks like we are talking about a monthly growth rate of 20% and more! Are the Travel Management Companies (TMCs) such as CWT, BCD, HRG and American Express GBT able to turn back the times and…
A new benchmarking report has shed light on which European corporations are paying the highest travel management fees, based on where they are headquartered. In the follwoing guest post, David Chapple explains some of the differencies and the the reasons behind. The report from Business Travel iQ shows businesses in the UK and Ireland have…