videoconferencing

One face-to-face meeting is worth three visios, two face-to-face meetings are worth six visios, three face-to-face meetings are worth... In order to assess the benefits of a physical meeting rather than a remote one, travel managers would do well to master their table of three. This ratio emerges from a study recently carried out by the Accor group among 9,000 travellers...

This is not a surgical mask, nor is it part of a Darth Vardor or Stormtrooper costume. But it has the look of one, covering the lower part of the wearer's face, as well as a futuristic edge, in the tradition of the Star Wars series. And, like the mask that entered the...

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...

Motorola ThinkPhone Lenovo ThinkPad aficionados will be delighted to learn that their computer has now been turned into a smartphone in the same vein with the Motorola ThinkPhone (it's from the same company). The same focus on the professional market, with quality and reliability at the top of the agenda, and the same kind of high-end specification, with a...

What is the busiest day of the week for video conferences? How is the average length of a videoconference changing? Which tools are preferred by participants? These are just some of the questions raised by Zoom in the results of its latest study. Conducted over a one-year period - from November 2021 to the end of October 2022 -...

What needs do you intend to meet with your new Connect'Team offering? Stéphanie Auxenfans - This is one of the consequences of the major upheavals in working patterns that we have been experiencing since the pandemic, which have been driven mainly by teleworking, the practice of which has generally continued. We have just carried out a customer survey in the spring, according to which...

Signage is not one of Paris-Montparnasse station's strong points, so you have to look hard to find the new Bonport waiting lounge for the first time. Situated in the shopping aisle opposite track 21, this 60 m² space has around twenty seats, in a variety of configurations, so you can be alone or work with others...

"Travellers' appetite for long-distance travel has changed forever" is the conclusion, definitive to say the least, drawn by Roland Berger in its latest report. The consultancy estimates that, once the pandemic has passed, the number of personal trips will have fallen by 20 %. As for business...

Zoomtopia, the annual conference organised by Zoom, was held on 13 and 14 September. It was an opportunity for the remote communications specialist to take stock of the past few months, which have obviously been marked by intense activity linked to containment measures around the world. "Over the last decade,...

Speakers immersed in a 3D universe, graphics appearing as if by magic, backdrops that move or change colour at will, all illuminated by virtual 100% lighting: the new Studio Oxygène-Technologie XR, unveiled by Chateauform', takes the animation of corporate events a step further by combining the real with the virtual....

In the run-up to the Olympic fortnight, the hottest topic in business travel these days is whether business travellers will be heading back to the airport in the foreseeable future, or whether they will be sticking to their new videoconferencing habits. On 19 August, BCD Travel became the latest competitor to...

Businesses in the UK have no plans to go completely virtual, despite - or because of - the forced use of teleworking for more than a year. These are the findings of a survey commissioned by the UK government itself. The survey was conducted earlier this year by Ipsos MORI among 465 senior executives. "...

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...

It's the burning question for many business travel professionals: will virtual travel partially but permanently replace business travel in the wake of this unprecedented period? It's a question to which various studies regularly provide reassuring answers, but which are not always entirely convincing in terms of objectivity, since their authors have every interest in seeing the...

Office telephony is going hybrid, as demonstrated by the new Zoom Phone Appliances range unveiled on 9 June by the rising star in remote communications. The range is based on terminals from Poly and Yealink - other suppliers are expected soon - and aims to "facilitate collaboration by blurring the lines between...

Having dealt a brutal blow to small meetings that don't require long journeys, is Zoom now set to become a key player in hybrid meetings? In any case, the videoconferencing specialist intends to carve out a place for itself in the world of virtual events, and is launching Zoom Events to do just that. This all-in-one platform, which...

To get a better idea of the role that virtual communication tools will play in the post-crisis era, Zoom surveyed 7,689 people in 10 countries, including France, at the end of March. And the videoconferencing specialist is clearly expecting to lose some of its regulars on the French market. the French exception is...

Will business travel to Africa quickly return to its pre-Covid form? Despite advances in vaccination, the shadow of PCR tests, quarantines and closed borders continues to haunt short business trips to the continent. It's an uncertainty that struck as early as 4 March 2020...

It is almost a year since the teleworking revolution revolutionised the professional and personal environment of a majority of employees. No longer able to travel, business travellers have been forced to go entirely virtual for their meetings and events. At the end of this very special year, what conclusions can we draw from an experience that was unprecedented for many? A...

With Wi-Fi available even on trains and planes, ever more powerful telephones and a wide choice of videoconferencing solutions, it's been a few years now that new technologies seem to be powerful enough to allow you to work from almost anywhere. So this year has been a real-life test to see whether or not this trend can be...