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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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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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Business Travel

New Business Travel IQ benchmarking report shows highest TMC fees

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 the roughest deal, paying the most for online air bookings particularly long-haul and low-cost flights. They are charged more for online touched bookings, while also paying the third highest offline fees in Europe. French travel managers have a more mixed fee structure, the report

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