Business Travel
Finass Business Travel Workshop Highlights
Discover how the Finass Business Travel Workshop reveals technology’s impact on business travel with digital identities and touchless travel innovations!
Discover how the Finass Business Travel Workshop reveals technology’s impact on business travel with digital identities and touchless travel innovations!
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
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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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