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The Finass Business Travel Workshop 2024 in Zurich

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 the SIX Convention Point in Zurich. For the 17th time, Daniel Wittwer and Marc Brunner, along with the Finass Business Travel team, invited participants to the Finass Business Travel Workshop. This year too, around 80 travel managers from small and large companies and partners

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Business Travel

Business Travel Reloaded – is your company ready?

It’s starting up again – slowly but steadily Business Travel reloaded. The business travellers are waiting in the wings. Is your company ready when it starts again? We hope you and your teams have had a good start to the New Year. Of course, we wish you all the very best, much success and good health. May it be a year in which we finally leave the still prevailing pandemic behind us. Despite the still prevailing COVID-19 restrictions, October and November have shown that we are slowly heading back towards “normality” in business travel. Although the Omicron variant has

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ACTE

ACTE Global Summit 2019 in Amsterdam / 23 – 25 October 2019

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 most important events of the season is just around the corner.  Unfortunately, we will probably not be present at this year’s ACTE Global Summit 2019 from 23 – 25 October 2019 at the Postillion Hotel & Convention Centre in Amsterdam. And this despite the

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Business Travel

TravelPerk shakes up the business travel industry with a new refund model for cancelled bookings

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. In return, TravelPerk guarantees a refund of 90% of all costs in the event of cancellation of flights, hotels, private accommodation, rental cars and rail bookings. For a long time now I have been discussing with our TMC and travel agency customers the need

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Big Data

The Event – Travel Start-up Night in Zurich on 23 May 2019

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 of tourism, hotel and catering sectors presented themselves. A quite exciting event with a slightly different focus. Starting from 18.00 h the participants and the colleagues of the presenting Startups were taken in receipt in the Lounge of the a-ja City Resorts by the

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ACTE

The ACTE Education Forum in Basel – 27 June 2019

This years Business Travel Show / Travel Technology Europe and the ITB 2019 are history. At travelBrain we now have started to focus on the planning for some the local Swiss events scheduled for the rest of the year. One of them is the ACTE Education Forum to be held for the first time in Basel at the SET Residence by Teufelhof on 27 June 2019. The prep work for the 2019 event is in full swing. The organising committee led by Stephanie Smook together with the Advisory board is currently finalising the agenda for Basel. The ACTE motto

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Business Travel

Corinna Doepkens on the road for travelBrain

Once again, a proven specialist in the field of travel management decided to work with travelBrain. I am particularly pleased that with Corinna Döpkens another colleague is working under the travelBrain flag since a couple of weeks. For new and existing travelBrain customers she develops sustainable solutions and offers innovative products and services. Corinna accompanies the customer from the first interview to the status analysis and requirements gathering to the creation of a concept / offer and remains as part of a holistic support contact during the entire project For Corinna it was important to broaden her self-employment, which

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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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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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