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Gerry Schenk is joining the travelBrain-Team

With a first little highlight we are launching 2019. Gerry Schenk, a long time American Express GBT Manager and wellknown industry professional is joining the travelBrain team as a Senior Consultant in January 2019. Gerry brings a vast experience from his more than 25 years at American Express Global Business Travel. With in-depth expertise in global travel management, he supports our clients in the holistic development and implementation of travel management programs. This includes topics such process analyses, process optimisation, RFPs, evaluation, implementation, user acceptance, dedicated stakeholder reporting and much more. When gaps need to be filled temporarirly he

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Business Travel

Whitepaper – Travel Management for SMEs

Lately, we got a rather interesting request from Veit Blumschein the founder of the Travel Start-Up company „Lanes & Planes“ based in Munich, Germany. He wanted to know about the characteristic attributes of professional travel management for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Veit Blumschein from Lanes & Planes   My colleague Christian took the challenge and created a Whitepaper based on his extensive industry expertise. The document shall should support the decision-making process for the target group and help to select the best partners for their travel business. Interesting to see that apart from the well-known Travel Management companies

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Consulting

expenseBrain – our sister company is keeping up with growth

Also at our sister company based in Lindau at the Lake of Constance we are constantly strenghtening our Team. Since 1 July Anna Zeiler is support Michael Zwickel and his colleagues as a full time Project Manager. In addition we have started to run an internal education program with four Travel Management & Expense experts in order to have even more resources in the market to help managing your projects. More about those new colleagues as soon as they are fit for purpose. Christian Elsässer, who has joined our companies a while ago is taking over additional responsiblites as

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Business Travel

Without making a lot of noise – we continue to grow……

Sometimes it just happens! Customers do not always want to use our services in the traditional regions and countries. No, there are also experts on the other side of the big pond in demand. Or experts and lone fighters in travel management and technology are looking to connect to a network to be able to advise their customers even more comprehensively or even to be involved as part of a larger project. And in the meantime there’s a lot to offer with travelBrain and expenseBrain. Thanks to our large network and countless contacts from numerous projects, we often have

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ACTE

Website now in French, a new colleague and the ACTE Education Forum in Geneva

TravelBrain services now also available in French It’s taken a while, but now our website is up and running in French. Our golive for the new language version was at the beginning of the week. Naturally, you will probably still find a couple of small mistakes, some text portions that are not yet translated or some sentences that could be more elegantly expressed. From now on, all our blog entries will also be made available in all languages. I am happy and proud that we can now offer our services in a further language. If you do encounter mistakes

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Airlines

The Event – Swiss Travel Management Forum 7 September 2017

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. But of course there is always the same excitement to meet so many collegues from Travel Management and Suppliers. For the second time, the occasion was moderated by Traveltip and the patronage of the VDR, by Stefan Jäggi and Willy Schnyder – and they

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Consulting

The Event – Finass Business Travel Workshop 2017

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 folks on stage. Daniel Wittwer once again managed to engage and excite the participants. For several years, the event was held at the SIX Convention Point in Zurich. In the meantime, SIX has moved to the Hardturm area and their old building is being

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Consulting

We are back in full shape – holidays are over

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 solution – we are happy to discuss. TravelBrain for Travel Agencies TravelBrain for Travel Management Companies TravelBrain for Corporates and Travel Managers TravelBrain for Technology Providers And our colleagues from expenseBrain are ready to step in should your project have a focus on Expense

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Consulting

Travel Risk Management Campaign – Self Assessement Questionnaire

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 Management topic and to talk about our services in this area. At the same time we were able to share our views in the latest issue of Business Traveltip, the leading business travel industry paper in Switzerland. As an entry point for interested companies

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ACTE

The Event – ACTE Education Forum Zurich – 11 May 2017

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 with a good mix of travel managers and Travel Industry suppliers and an event that involved more preparation time in advance than usual. Things don’t always turn out as expected…. ACTE, like other event organizers, has changed how these events are structured and kicked

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Business Travel

New experts joining the travelBrain team

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 of Switzerland and an additional one for France. In addition to a part time assignment for a local TMC in Geneva, Jean-Daniel will support our clients as a consultant and project manager for sourcing projects, process analysis and optimisation, the implementation of the latest

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Business Travel

Birger Oldorff to join travelBrain adding Travel Risk Management expertise

A new face in the team Travel Risk Management – an important part of the end-to-end process Travel Risk Management Benchmarking Audit 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 where travel security ranked second place among the top priorities of travel managers, just behind the evergreen – cost containment. In the

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