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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

Successfully implement corporate climate goals with ClimPact!

Climate goals in business travel is the current hot topic in travel management. Travel management companies, online travel agencies and providers of online booking tools are all working hard to make the emissions of business trips visible as early as the booking process. The aim is to show booking and traveling employees how and where the carbon footprint can be reduced. But how can travel professionals and employees really achieve companies’ climate and cost targets? Swiss startup ClimPact takes a slightly different approach. We took a look together with Christian Zeunert, one of the founders. Convincing bookers to change

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Business Travel

Back in business – Ralf Dörig joins Kuster Reisen

After his decision to leave HRG at the end of December 2018 it took only three months before Ralf Dörig is back on the stage, taking over responsibility for the business travel unit of the family business Kuster Reisen in Rapperswil. At the same time, he will act as deputy managing director in the company. Mockingbirds were hummin’ for a few weeks and industry colleagues keet asking where Ralf will reappear after his break. Even if some were informed about the step early on, the change could go largely unnoticed and without much hype. Today, Arnold Kuster, the patron

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Amadeus Customer Day in Zurich – the Amadeus Selling Platform Connect to be launched

After being released in various countries already, the Amadeus Selling Platform Connect is about to be launched in Switzerland during the Amadeus Customer Day on May 3rd in Zurich.   From 10 am until 2 pm the Amadeus staff will in hourly sessions present the platform to the agents. Snacks and beverages will most certainly be provided. Agenda and Registration (German only)   With the move to the device and platform agnostic version of the Amadeus selling platform, Amadeus fulfils a long standing requirement from Agents. Since quite some time Travelport offers such a solution with the Galileo Remote

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