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ISO 20121 certified since January 2020, Châteauform' has long demonstrated its commitment to sustainable events. This commitment has been renewed with the deployment of the LEAD label, an acronym for Label des Evénements à Ambition Durable. Created by SGS, one of the world's leading certification bodies, and promoted by the consultancy firm Green Événements, this...

American Express GBT is to overhaul the tools it uses to calculate carbon emissions for its customers. The business travel agency will now be adopting the technology developed by CHOOOSE. This will be integrated into the Neo booking tool. The aim is to gain greater precision and legitimacy, so as to have a greater influence on the choices made by business travellers and the...

The Green Key label is making inroads into the French hotel industry. Driven as much by customer expectations as by their own environmental concerns, more and more hotels are beginning to display this international label, created in Denmark in 1994 and deployed outside France under the name Green Key. The Best Western network...

How do you see the business travel sector in 2023? What major trends can we expect? Laurent La Rocca - In 2023, we anticipate a context marked by factors such as inflation, social issues, but also ecological issues which are increasingly visible. As a result of all these factors,...

The "Wellbeing Dashboard" developed by Egencia has been available since December 7th, for all Egencia and American Express GBT clients. It joins and completes the suite of tools linked to sustainable development offered by both Egencia Consulting and American Express Global Business Consulting. And we have to say...

Modernising their fleets with more fuel-efficient aircraft on the one hand, and supplying SAF, or sustainable aviation fuel, on the other: airlines are currently relying on these two pillars to accelerate their decarbonisation. But the sector has a third lever as part of its energy transition: the advent of a new, more sustainable form of...

A few days after seeing its carbon emission reduction targets validated by the SBTi initiative - i.e. -30% by 2030 - , Air France-KLM is continuing its momentum with the announcement of an order for sustainable aviation fuel from TotalEnergies, adding to previous orders placed at the end of October with Neste and DG...

The European Commission has approved the French government's intention to limit short-haul flights on its domestic network. Its decision was published at the end of the week in the EU's Official Journal, and welcomed by the Minister in charge of the dossier. "Mr Clément Beaune, the French Minister for Transport, welcomes the decision of...

At the end of the year, the Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regions met in Paris to promote their major MICE destinations through workshops for professionals. This was an opportunity for them to highlight the current and future developments in business tourism in their main cities. New infrastructures, new offers...

Paris, which used to top the ICCA convention city rankings, is no longer in the top three for 2021. Is this a bad thing for the destination? Corinne Menegaux - This in no way detracts from the fact that Paris is a prime convention destination. Apart from the last few complicated years, the 2023-2025 schedule...

From major international hubs to smaller hubs, the decarbonisation drive at French airports is mobilising the entire industry. So much so that international bodies are now hailing the exemplary role played by French airports, as was the case at the fourth annual congress of French airports &...

Following on from the SNCF, which recently announced a major photovoltaic electricity purchase contract, the ADP group has just seen the materialisation of an agreement signed in February 2020 with producer Urbasolar and GazelEnergie, an electricity supplier specialising in the aggregation of renewable energies. While the contract provided for the creation of three photovoltaic solar farms, the...

Oil prices have risen by 50% in the space of a year, salaries have been revised upwards in the face of inflation, and the dollar - the sector's currency of exchange - has appreciated by 40% against the euro: like all economic players, the air transport sector is experiencing strong pressure on its production costs. "Faced with...

In conjunction with the GBTA Europe conference in Brussels and the first Sustainability Summit, GBTA and HRS unveiled the results of a study carried out last summer in three markets: Europe, the United States and Canada. The aim of the study was to identify the importance attached to sustainable development in travel programmes, and in particular in the...

What did you learn from the GBTA Europe conference in Brussels, and in particular from the first Sustainability Summit? Stéphane Vallageas - Sustainability is a crucial objective for most companies in 2023. So GBTA Europe absolutely had to position itself in this trend. The event went very well, with some top-quality speakers...

At COP27, the Radisson Group joined Accor and Iberostar among the leading hotel companies to sign the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action in Tourism. The Declaration, which was presented at COP26 in the Scottish city in 2021, concludes with a commitment to "reduce emissions of greenhouse gases...

The 2022 edition of the GBTA Europe conference was unique in more ways than one. For the first time, the international business travel association devoted an entire day to a new Sustainability Summit, prior to its 'classic' event. It was also the first time that GBTA Europe had gone beyond the German market, the preserve of its...

French cities have no reason to be ashamed of their environmental commitment when it comes to business tourism. The latest Global Destination Sustainability Index (GDS-Index) shows that Bordeaux has climbed from 9th to 5th place, while Paris has jumped from 55th to 25th. Of course, this ranking, which...

Like most hotel groups, is IHG satisfied with 2022 so far? Eric Viale - After a first quarter impacted by Omicron, we have seen a real upturn in business. Almost all our hotels are performing in line with, if not better than, 2019, with occupancy levels close to...

Freenow surveyed 4,554 professionals in 9 European countries: France, Germany, Austria, Spain, Ireland, Portugal, Italy, Romania and Poland. The aim was to map out the future of corporate mobility, and in particular the place and future of the company car. Today, three out of ten French people (29%) have a company car, but the future of this...