travel policy

For thirty years now, PLUS VOYAGES has been supporting, advising and offering innovative, tailor-made solutions to companies for managing their business travel and to leisure travellers for their holiday plans. Full of ambition to support its customers, the Premium agency is taking part this year in the IFTM TOP RESA trade show, the must-attend event for professionals in the tourism industry,...

The latest business travel index from the GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) has just been published. And it contains some bad news: estimates of the recovery are 18 months behind schedule. The GBTA estimates that it will not be until 2026, rather than 2024, that the global business travel industry...

SAP Concur and Wakefield Research surveyed 3,850 business travellers in 25 markets around the world - including France - last April and May. The resulting study shows that while business travellers are ready to get back on the road, they won't do so under just any conditions:...

While some have got out their temporary summer gear, business travel professionals are drawing out their calculators. And the least we can say is that the calculations are not good! Or at least the results, and their impact on travel budgets. A few days ago, Travelperk put a figure on inflation...

"In May, demand for business travel almost recovered its pre-crisis 2019 level", stresses the Marco Polo association, which publishes its monthly index of business travel. Several studies, unveiled in quick succession, highlight both the increasingly rapid pace of business travel, and the...

Since last year, Accor's teams in Northern Europe have been bringing together their main corporate clients at the Masters of Travel, the second of which took place at the end of May in Frankfurt. Why did you decide to organise this event? Sophie Hulgard - Covid has accelerated certain trends, the needs...

Regularly cited as a priority by companies in the field of business travel, the issue of business travellers' well-being is more topical than ever. A study by BCD Travel, carried out in February and March this year, provides some insights into the current situation of business travellers, the measures taken by companies to improve...

Although the well-being of business travellers has been identified as a crucial issue for a number of years now, all too often it remains wishful thinking within companies. Not least because there is a lack of tools and data to truly assess the problem and put in place the necessary safeguards. But the post-pandemic period could well amplify the problem...

There is often a long way to go between words and deeds. While major companies are all proclaiming their desire to reduce the carbon footprint of their business travel, the European Federation for Transport and Environment, more commonly known as Transport et Environnement (T&E), is tempering this rhetoric. Bringing together some sixty European organisations committed to a vision of...

What have you learned from the latest EVP barometer published by American Express GBT? Adrien Cannes - Business travel is a way of doing things in person. So we tried to take a step back and look at the value of a meeting compared with a videoconference, a phone call, a chat... We were able to conclude that the value...

Faced with growing demand from business travel professionals for more effective carbon footprint measurement tools, TravelPerk is adding a new solution to the business travel landscape. The aptly-named GreenPerk was unveiled on Wednesday, with the aim of enabling companies to "analyse the impact of their business travel and create an action plan to reduce...

How is the start of 2022 going for TripActions in France? Zahir Abdelouhab - We're just getting started, we're beginning to have interesting initial discussions with customers, the team is in place, we officially opened the offices in January: we're in the thick of things. The official launch was due to take place...

For two years now, business travel has been affected by successive waves of the covid pandemic. But for the first time in a very long time, we are hearing more and more voices, from scientific experts to players in the tourism industry, expressing cautious optimism about a way out of the crisis. In a...

BCD Travel is preparing for the arrival of the BCD Pay solution in the business travel sector, expected by 2022 in certain markets. TMC surveyed around a hundred international travel buyers last October. The aim was to identify their travel & expense practices, issues and expectations. According to the survey...

While all the players in the business travel industry agree that travel is picking up again, it is still necessary to identify the nuances of a dynamic with variable geometry. This is confirmed, with figures to back it up, by the study published on 3 November by International SOS. The specialist in health and safety risk management based its study on the support of around a hundred companies...

Like other rail companies, Thalys is seeing a recovery in its leisure and business traffic. "The occupancy rate has returned to the same level or even higher than 2019, but the transport plan is only 78%", confides Bruno Dierickx, the Marketing and Sales Director. On the business side, the...

Keidanren, the very powerful and normally influential Federation of Japanese Business, sounded the alarm on Monday 6 September. The Japanese economy is weakening faster than it appears due to the isolation of the archipelago. On that day, the Keidanren presented a series of proposals aimed at normalising the country's economic activity. A pressing request at a time when...

The summer 2021 version of the Business Travel Observatory is now available. And this third 'wave' of the survey has the merit of sending out some positive signals to a business travel market that really needs them. Based on a sample of 500 business travellers surveyed between 27 May and 8 June, OpinionWay and Corporate...

FREENOW for Business has published a practical, costed guide to kick-starting the resumption of business travel without exposing travellers to risk, and thereby fulfilling every company's duty to protect. Starting from a simple but unavoidable observation - "The world has changed, mobility must be rethought...

Does Thailand perfectly reflect the way in which the countries of South-East Asia approach the management of tourism at the time of the Covid? One might ask, given that the reopening of the kingdom has been constantly postponed as the government has changed direction. This hesitation and vacillation is not unique to the Kingdom in the...