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20 Years of TravelBrain Consulting

From Project-Based Execution to Strategic Transformation Wow – who would have thought. 20 years ago, we started with a simple idea: companies and Travel Management Companies need partners who don’t just understand their processes, but bring them to life. Today, two decades later, we have successfully implemented hundreds of transformation projects together with our clients – and the journey is far from over. Getting Started: Project Management for TMCs It began in 2006 with a framework for projects: 6–18 months, clearly defined, measurably successful. Our teams took on project management responsibilities for the major Travel Management Companies – implementing

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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

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

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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Events

ASTM Event at the citizenM Hotel in Geneva on 22 September 2020

With virtual panel discussion on “The Future is now – Hotels post Covid-19” At long last I could finally meet again with industry colleagues and travel managers. Live and in colour at the brand new cititzenM hotel in Geneva where the ASTM had initiated a fully Covid19 compatible hybrid event to commemorate the opening of this new property. Sabah Kahoul and Dominic Short from the ASTM had made it their target to bring business travel management people together for a physical meeting after all these weeks of lockdown. Regardless of the pandemic the citizenM Hotel in Geneva the chain’s

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