travel manager

CWT has published a checklist to help travel managers turn uncertainty into opportunity. Here is a four-point roadmap: 1. Control your travel budget Boost your travel programme: Take advantage of price volatility. The CWT price optimisation tool...

Analysing the business travel landscape, surveying the main players, anticipating tomorrow's major trends, and providing the expertise of the CWT teams: that is the ambition of this first study of its kind devoted by TMC to the French market, entitled "CWT Perspectives France 2019". Some sixty decision-makers took part in the survey to find out...

Were you surprised by the results of the EVP barometer? Yorick Charveriat - What surprised me was the strong growth seen in 2018, which should be even more marked in 2019. As far as trends in travel management are concerned, I don't think there's much talk of travellers buying into the policy...

Cvent recently published its report "The European Travel Manager in 2019", based on a survey of 506 travel managers in five European countries (Germany, Spain, France, the UK and Italy) working in all sectors of the industry. Business travel decision-makers say they are faced with having to manage their budgets more...

As the NDC standard prepares to take over the airline industry, Travel Managers do not seem to have fully grasped this crucial issue. Worse still, according to a study published by the Business Travel Show, they are increasingly wary of the new standard and its consequences. The show's organisers...

Could it be that travel managers are guided solely by the quest for savings? Behind this - purely ironic - question lies perhaps the end of certain prejudices that sometimes weigh on the profession of travel manager, which is in the throes of change, at the crossroads of purchasing, technology and human resources... And it is precisely in...

As Theresa May wrestles with the details of Brexit, what do business travel professionals think? The Business Travel Show - which opens in London on 20 February - took the temperature of the market by surveying 134 buyers, the vast majority of whom were British (74 %). It has to be said that the subject...

"Business travel is my whole career, it's everything I love! The enthusiasm of Céline Foglia, travel manager for nearly seven years at the Akka engineering and technology consultancy group, is enough to make anyone want to do it. I hadn't thought about it when I started out as a travel agent," she says. I never...

Today's travel manager has to know how to do everything. How do you see the profession of travel manager changing? Sabah Kahoul - During my time as a travel manager at Microsoft, I have seen the profession reorganise, become more professional, broaden its geographical scope and extend to categories such as meetings & events, car fleets, mobility, etc.

At the ACTE Global Summit, held in Paris from 14 to 16 October, American Express GBT took a closer look at one of the most crucial issues facing the airline industry today: NDC. Behind these three letters lies a new distribution standard ("New Distribution Capability") and above all a concept that is still unclear to many companies....

Having data is great, but being able to use it is even better. Travelport, the online service provider for travel managers, wants to put the information gathered during business trips to good use with the Watson artificial intelligence platform developed by IBM. The technology developed by the two partners, soberly named IBM Travel Manager,...

On 7 January, BCD Travel announced the launch of SolutionSource, "a unique suite of third-party technology solutions for the travel industry", according to the company's management. BCD Travel's aim is to act as an intermediary between the corporate world and the increasingly dense world of technological solutions...

Business travellers were already familiar with V-Pro, the digital toolbox launched almost a year ago by Voyages-sncf.com. Since then, the platform has found its audience by offering a toolbox that centralises most of the needs of mobile professionals, from 1-click booking to expense management. In fact, V-Pro...

Was it a wink or a coincidence? In any case, it was at the We Work Lafayette space - the Paris coworking centre inaugurated last April - that the Airbnb for Work teams met with French travel managers. A few days earlier, the sharing economy giant had made official a...

How did you choose your business travel agency? Juliet Thanwerdas - We needed to centralise bookings and monitor travel expenses. The criteria focused on the agency's leadership and its openness to BlablaCar's start-up culture. This choice was made before I arrived, but I've already got to grips with the tool...

It's a question that regularly comes to the fore at business travel events: should Travel Managers be responsible for managing meetings and group travel? And beyond the mere theory, are we seeing a practical application on a day-to-day basis in the company? The...

Slowly but surely, European travel managers are waking up to the importance of security for their business travellers. At least, that's one possible interpretation of the study published on 2 February by the Business Travel Show. The Business Travel Show, which opens its doors in London on 24 February, notes an increase in the...

This is certainly the missing piece in the MagicEvent jigsaw puzzle if it is to carve out a place for itself in the fast-changing world of business travel. On Monday, the collaborative consumer platform dedicated to business travel officially launched Magic Travel Manager Tool, which, as its name suggests, is designed for travel managers to simplify the management of their travel plans....

"Technology will become increasingly important for travel managers as they seek to expand their role and further demonstrate the added value they bring to their organisation": this analysis is from Joseph Bates, Vice President of Research at the GBTA. It is a good illustration of the message conveyed by the...

Getting back to basics by focusing on the human element: this is the approach taken by 3Mundi this autumn 2014, with a white paper entitled "Purchasing, mobility, finance: what changes and prospects for the professions involved in managing a company's business travel?". The paper, produced in partnership with Travel Think, analyses...