CSR

For this second edition, how have you refined the IFTM-Kactus MICE Barometer? Arnaud Katz - We've added several key elements, in particular the CSR section, which some people criticised us for not including enough last year. We laid the foundations last year, and now we have a truly comprehensive barometer....

In recent weeks, hotel groups have taken it in turns to present their progress in the area of eco-responsibility. In its Serve 360 report - named after the platform that guides the group's CSR efforts - Marriott outlined the progress it has made in recent years...

Since the pandemic, the Accor group's Northern Europe division has made a habit of bringing together its key account clients at the Masters of Travel event. This was a way of taking the pulse of developments in the still faltering business travel sector, with participants from a wide range of sectors, including Germany, the UK, Sweden and Poland....

A shorter format in this Olympic year, but no less effective: for its annual See You There (SYT) event, following on from Nancy and Deauville, UNIMEV chose the Palais des Congrès in Versailles to bring together more than 300 players in the events industry for professional exchanges and conferences on a range of themes...

In the wake of its merger with Thalys, Eurostar has unveiled its first sustainability report, detailing its sustainability commitments and current progress in this area. The first objective, the most important for its fleet of 51 trains, aims to reduce its energy consumption and use 100% of renewable energy...

"A return to a certain normality after years of post-Covid recovery": the 2024 edition of the American Express GBT Business Travel Barometer translates into figures what most players in business tourism have been able to feel: an upward trend in travel volumes in 2023. However, after a...

A carbon footprint calculator created for the events industry by the events industry; a solution that is flexible enough to reflect the realities on the ground, from site operation to catering, stand design and design agencies, but also very rigorous in the collection and analysis of data.

On Monday, Kactus made official its entry into a new MICE segment: team building. It's a logical move for the technology platform specialising in BtoB events. All the more so as it is part of a buoyant context, as Kactus managers point out: "At a time when employees are seeing less of each other, but are looking for ways to...

Faced with the growing needs of airlines, the production of SAF (Sustainable Aviation Fuel) is gradually changing scale. Last year, as part of the Singapore Expansion Project, the world leader, Finland's Neste, increased the production capacity of its refinery to one million tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel, which will be used to supply Singapore...

Accor intends to take the ecological transition of its establishments one step further by finding a partner of choice to support it: ADEME. The hotel group has just signed a framework agreement with the public body under the aegis of the French Ministry for Ecological Transition. This is a "decisive step" for Brune Poirson, Director of Sustainable Development for the French group. With its...

Artificial intelligence is making inroads into all segments of business travel. While the trend sometimes borders on the merely fashionable or even gadget-like, the objectives unveiled at the beginning of February by KLM are promising, to say the least. Based on technology developed by Kickstart AI, the Dutch airline aims to reduce wastage by 63 %...

Last June, the ADP group inaugurated the Paris-Orly environmental alliance, bringing together 33 signatories under the banner of more sustainable aviation. This time, it's at Le Bourget that the operator is setting itself apart, again with an eco-responsible approach. This ambition led ADP to team up with a major player: Dassault Aviation, and its subsidiary...

"Tourism and business travel will be shaped in the future by the yardstick of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and our ability to be transparent with our customers, whose expectations in terms of services and technology are increasingly high," said Patricia Morosini, the...

Hoteliers are making a sustained commitment to the green label. Almost by force of market forces, as pledging eco-responsibility to their customers is becoming not just a means of distinguishing themselves, but a prerequisite, particularly in the eyes of companies committed to CSR. The 2024 list of winners of the Clef Verte label,...

London Gatwick is going electric with the inauguration of an Electric Forecourt station under the Gridserve banner. Electric vehicles will now have access to 30 large and low-power chargers, powered entirely by net zero emission energy. In addition to these contactless payment terminals, the site on the southern bypass of the southern terminal...

How would you sum up 2023? Odile Delannoy - 2023 was a very good year for our 73 members, including 64 convention centres and offices in France. Business remained strong throughout the year, including December. As a result, their results were higher than in 2022. Every...

What can you take away from COP 28 for the business travel industry, as you represented the GBTA for the first time in Dubai? Delphine Millot - The GBTA had just been granted observer status at COP 28. And to see more than 190 countries represented was really impressive. When we talk about reducing...

What are the trends and challenges facing the airline industry in 2024, particularly for business travellers? Paul Chiambaretto - The macro-economic trends, as confirmed by the IATA figures, are fairly optimistic in terms of global air traffic demand. This will enable us to exceed 2019 levels. With...

Where does business travel stand on the road back to normality? Laurent Lassure - The recovery is here, and we're starting to see figures close to 2019, but there are a lot of new ways of working that have developed, particularly with teleworking. It's also a question of habits. A...

How do you explain the fact that the night train has become the "star" of the year 2023? Amandine Thomas Commin - The revival of the night train is attracting a great deal of media coverage and interest from passengers, associations, the press and influencers... After a decade of virtual disappearance, the...