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The SNCF relaunches its Grand Prix for Ecomobility
The SNCF has announced the forthcoming launch of the 3rd edition of the Grands Prix de l'Ecomobilité, a competition launched by the company in 2022 to reward companies and travel agencies that are committed to more eco-responsible travel. Entries can be submitted from 16 October 2025...
Budgets, destinations, trends: French MICE under the microscope
The new annual Meetings & Events Barometer from Kactus was presented on Wednesday, the second day of the IFTM event at Porte de Versailles. It provides some answers for companies forced to navigate in a highly unstable environment, both nationally and internationally. The authors of the Kactus barometer...
Interview: Zahir Abdelouhab, SVP EMEA at Navan
How would you sum up the first half of the year? Zahir Abdelouhab - The overall trend is clearly towards an increase in business travel expenditure. There is also confirmation of older trends, with more and more bleisure, and we expect this activity to double by 2029. In this...
Lease a Bike, yellow jersey for company bikes
"Ready to pull on the yellow jersey? Pavel Pogacar will no doubt be unmoved by the invitation from Lease a Bike, the sponsor of his main rival Jonas Vingegaard's team for overall victory in the Tour de France. Europe's leading company bike hire company took advantage of the exhibition at the...
Amex GBT improves carbon reporting for hotels
American Express GBT is boosting its data on the carbon emissions of hotels used by business travellers. Already a partner of the start-up Chooose, selected by TMC to enhance the carbon footprint reporting of flights offered to its customers, Amex GBT is extending this partnership with the integration of functions relating to hotels. From...
Avelia, SAF's booking platform, moves to a multi-vendor model
The Avelia platform is evolving to develop the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Launched in 2022 by American Express GBT and Shell Aviation, in partnership with Accenture, this "book and claim" solution gave companies and airlines access to sustainable aviation fuel. Without being constrained by...
Air France-KLM, test group for the European in-flight emissions label
The Air France-KLM group will be the first to test the European label for in-flight emissions. The fact that the airline group is one of the largest, if not the largest purchaser of sustainable aviation fuel, is no doubt one of the reasons for its voluntary participation in the programme launched at the end of 2024 by the...
First two Net Zero hotels for Radisson
In its latest Responsible Business 2024 report, the Radisson Group highlights the progress it has made in terms of sustainability and responsibility. With, for example, more than half of its hotel portfolio certified or 95 hotels using 100 % of renewable electricity, 33 % reduction in carbon emissions per m²...
IFTM at the forefront of business travel and MICE
Laurence Gaborieau, Managing Director of the IFTM, chose the Embassy of the Dominican Republic as the venue for the announcement of the latest news and developments for IFTM 2025. The Dominican Republic will be the guest of honour at the next show, which will be held at Paris Expo from 23 to 25 September. "There is a very good dynamic. The 2025 edition is looking very promising...
Inclusive business travel: minorities forgotten by travel policies
Like Donald Trump's stances, the situation of minorities does not necessarily tend to improve over time. On the contrary, we are regularly witnessing steps backwards, and the American president is not the only example of these setbacks. This is borne out by a new study published ahead of the Business...
MICE, the driving force behind mobility for young business travellers
What are the habits and expectations of younger business travellers? This is the question CTM (Corporate Travel Management) is trying to answer. With this in mind, the Australian agency surveyed more than 700 employees worldwide. Or to be more precise, in five international markets: Australia,...
D. Auclair (T&E): "There is a positive trend in France".
Transport & Environnement (T&E) has just published the latest figures for the business travel-related emissions of 25 major French companies, showing an average reduction of 18% between 2019 and 2024. Do you think they are good performers? Denise Auclair - When you look at the number of A- and B-rated companies in our...
Emissions from 25 major French companies down overall
A drop of -18% in emissions linked to business travel: Transport & Environment (T&E) highlights the progress made by major French companies since 2019. While the think tank recently published its Travel Smart ranking based on data from 2023, the publication of sustainability information from French companies...
J. du Boucher (Transport & Environnement): "Objectives are what we're...
Transport & Environment has just published its Travel Smart report, assessing the business travel-related emissions of over 200 multinationals. What are the main lessons you can draw from this study? Jérome du Boucher - First of all, the salient point is that emissions linked to business travel in 2023 will be a third lower than they are now...
Travel policies and CO2 emissions: the good and the bad...
The Travel Smart Ranking 2025, unveiled at the beginning of April by Transport & Environnement, can be read at different levels. And in these turbulent times, it is probably best first to take a look at the good news emanating from the data compiled in this fourth edition. Particularly as previous T&E reports have not always encouraged us to...
Airbus: the way forward for more sustainable aircraft
Alongside the industrial-scale production of sustainable fuel, so eagerly awaited by airlines, the decarbonisation of air transport also involves providing airlines with more fuel-efficient aircraft. In this respect, Airbus is playing a key role in the aviation sector's move towards...
Events at low speed in 2025 according to Interface MICE
As it does every year, Interface has just published its study of the MICE market. Around a hundred sector managers were interviewed, from MICE agencies, corporate meeting planners, travel agencies, communications agencies and TOs with MICE operations... The year 2024, marked by the impact of the preparation and staging of the...
The Cleaner Industry Pact: a helping hand for...
Making decarbonisation a powerful growth driver for European businesses: extending the ambitions of its Green Deal, the Clean Industry Pact, presented on 26 February by the European Commission, sets out various ways of encouraging EU industry to green its production and, at the same time, improve its competitiveness on the global market...
Travel policies and CSR: France leads the way, Germany...
The new study unveiled by AirPlus surveyed fewer than 529 business travellers in nine European countries. In addition to France, the payment specialist looked at Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The aim was to measure the importance attached to sustainable development in the...
Testimonials: an inside view of a Monaco show
It is one of the leading trade events held in Monaco every year, and has been for almost four decades. Luxe Pack, the world's leading packaging show, attracted 10,300 visitors last October, including 52% international visitors from over 80 countries. This was an opportunity for us to talk to some of the participants about...
