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Overview of the International Business Travel Industry – Review, Analysis, News and Opinion

The rising demand for intelligent travel programmes

Tom Rigby, Head of Commercial and Product Development at Reed & Mackay, on how corporate clients want tailored travel programmes to drive savings.

Corporate travel spend is rebounding from the depths of the recession, but clients are getting smarter about business travel, and want providers to tailor a corporate travel

Last Updated on Thursday, 13 June 2013 18:40

Travel Agency versus Self booking

Elisa Yarkony, Divisional Manager, Statesman Travel Limited

Clients who come to a travel agency for their corporate travel do so because they truly understand the value of their time, and want to ensure that they get the best possible fares and services.

I can talk from personal experience having been

Last Updated on Thursday, 16 May 2013 10:25

Today’s business travellers, technology, and the hotel industry

- Peter Waters, Director of Distribution,Global Hotel Group, Amadeus

Today’s business travellers, not unlike financial investors, are increasingly sophisticated, precise, and demanding. And the business travellers of the future are only going to be more so. We are intrigued by this shifting complexity. It’s something we’ve delved into extensively

Last Updated on Monday, 18 March 2013 13:46

The Pros and Cons of Heathrow Expansion

Charlie Mayes DAV Management

The debate continues on whether Heathrow should be expanded and a third runway built, or whether Heathrow could shrink to a single runway with the proceeds from redeveloping the site used to partly fund a new £50bn hub to the east of London.

The recent

Last Updated on Friday, 01 March 2013 08:42

There’s more to life than Hotels

Engi Bally PR & Marketing Manager SilverDoor, www.silverdoor.co.uk

For years, hotels have been the easy and consistent choice for business travellers and its understandable why; they’re convenient and provide many amenities. However, for frequent and long staying business travellers, hotels fall short on giving guests the

Last Updated on Wednesday, 27 February 2013 09:41

Accor Hotels research on business travellers

Remember a time when 100% of the European hotels you stayed in on business were simple, practical and fast to book? I don’t think we can! Wait right there however, because Accor hotels has the up to date knowledge of what to give business travellers so that they have

Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 May 2013 12:33

CorporatePay: Making Business Travel Expenditure Easier to Manage

For companies with staff frequently out and about on business travel, they will know only too well that transport, hotel bills, lunches, and drinks are among just some of the expenditures incurred when people are away from the office.

The costs quickly mount up, and the heap of receipts

Last Updated on Tuesday, 22 January 2013 14:45

MobileXpense: Travel and Expense Management at a Click

MobileXpense offers a fully-integrated, web-based travel and expense management solution. With an absolute minimum of up-front investment or project implementation requirement, MobileXpense helps its customers to take out complexity and unnecessary administration from their business processes and achieve significant cost savings very quickly, and with no fuss. On average,

Last Updated on Friday, 18 January 2013 14:28