Corporate travel agencies

In a few weeks' time, 3mundi and Frequent Flyer Travel Paris will be launching a holding company to pool their resources and skills and strengthen their position in the French business travel market. Jordy Staelen, Managing Director of 3mundi, talks about the objectives of this project.

Business travel agency BCD Travel is expanding in Brazil via a joint venture with Avipam, a Brazilian agency with which TMC has already had a privileged relationship since 2007. By acquiring a stake in Avipam, BCD Travel is taking a new step forward in a particularly promising market.

One hundred days after his appointment as Managing Director France for HRG (Hogg Robinson Group), Rémi Bouysset looks back at the business travel agency's position in France, its values and its priorities. The roadmap optimised as part of the "Destination 2015" plan already seems to be bearing fruit, with double-digit growth (+25%) this year.

Jean-Marc Dandurand, Director of ATPI France, outlines the new French ambitions of the business travel agency (TMC), which is building on its specific expertise in the offshore market and its skills in the MICE segment.

TourCom Affaires will be holding its thirteenth annual workshop on 29 March. This is an opportunity for its Chairman Patrick Loison to look back on the event, and more generally on the situation of TourCom's business travel branch.

Agnès Benveniste, Deputy Managing Director of Meetings at CWT Meetings & Events, takes a look at developments in the MICE (Meetings, Incentive, Convention, Events) market, and how supply and demand are evolving in this fast-changing sector.

Jordy Staelen, Managing Director of 3mundi France, explains the business travel agency's philosophy, its ambitions, its strengths and its vision of the market.

Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) has just made official the reorganisation of its structure across the Atlantic: from now on, the business travel agency's operations will be centralised within an Americas entity, responsible for both the North American and Latin American markets.

On Thursday, Egencia made official its acquisition of Traveldoo, adding to the range of products and services offered by the specialist business travel agency. The two entities must nevertheless retain their autonomy, according to the stated objectives of the Expedia group subsidiary. Details of the transaction were not disclosed.