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Preparations for the STMF 2027 have begun — and TravelBrain is on board again.

Kick-off meeting for the 19th Swiss Travel Management Forum in Zurich, taking place on March 4, 2027, got underway right in the middle of the summer holidays. Even though a lot will still happen in the industry between now and then, we’ve already set the rough direction for the content. Much of it will revolve around AI and its increasingly strong impact on travel management. At this event too, TravelBrain will once again be working at the forefront of content planning. Barring any last-minute changes, our Managing Director, Adrian Matt, will once again be happy to moderate part of

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Airlines

17th Swiss Travel Management Forum 2025 (STMF)

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 event and was onsite – with Adrian Matt moderating various keynotes and panels. Travel Manager lunch at the start of the event The “Travel Manager only” lunch before the official start of the STMF has become a tradition. This year, the acting president

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Business Travel

CWT & GBTA Global Travel Forecast 2020 – Time for Budgeting

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 year. This year CWT in cooperation with GBTA, the Global Business Travel Association, is making a start. On 71 pages CWT highlights the expected changes in the regions Asia/Pacific, Europe/Middle East/Africa, Latin America and North America. These are broken down by air, hotel and

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Airlines

Finass kicks off first NDC-integration in the local TMC world – Everything back to normal now?

Daniel Wittwer and his team at Finass Reisen in Wetzikon are once again making their mark on the local business travel market. As the first business travel specialist in Switzerland and perhaps even in Europe, Finass has fully integrated Lufthansa Group’s NDC solution into its own process landscape. This means that Finass will continue to have access to both the light fares which are currently no longer available in GDS and Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines’ so-called “Continuous Pricing”. However, the NDC connection also has its drawbacks.

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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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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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ACTE

ACTE Education Forum – 11 May 2017 in Zurich

Plans are apparently there to change. When I registered for this years ACTE Education Forum in Zurich on 11 May 2017 held in the Parky Hyatt Zurich I was expecting a relaxing afternoon with interesting topics and great discussons. The sessions announced on Digital Transformation and Hotel Sourcing were very promising. Only that my idea of having a quiet day later this week have changed dramatically. Which means that I will now be moderating two panel disucssions on the above subjects.    ACTE Education Forum – “Are you Digital” As seen in other such events on Corporate Travel, the

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Consulting

The Event: Cvent Connect Las Vegas, June 26 – 30, 2016

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 post about his trip and the convention. From June 26 to 30, 2016 Cvent Connect took place in Las Vegas. The yearly convention of Cvent, one of the leading event management software providers, is an event which draws global attention. Almost 3000 people attended

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Business Travel

Profile Management – a small one plays big

Martin Bachmann, the Head of the Swiss travel technology company Umbrella is not the tallest one. And Umbrella is – compared to other software providers – not the biggest player neither. But anyway, both are winning big with its profile management solution «Umbrella Faces». Beside Kuoni Business Travel and Lufthansa City Center (LCC) also the technology group ABB decided to use Umbrella. We at TravelBrain give attention to the subject Profile Management since the foundation of the company 10 years ago. One of the fist topics of TravelBrain One of my first topics at the start of TravelBrain has

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