Research and white papers

Studies and white papers are a daily feature of business travel news, in the fields of air travel, airlines, travel agencies and business travel. TMCtravel management and meeting & events. This is a wealth of data that needs to be monitored in order to identify business travel trends, adapt travel policy and even anticipate the next changes impacting business travel and the travel industry. MICE. (see more)

This toolkit for travel managers, frequent travellers and other event organisers is a must-have for all travellers.events compiles the results of polls and surveys carried out in France and abroad, and identifies the best practices to be adopted for enlightened management of business travel and events.

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Roaming: as business travel becomes more connected, it also becomes more expensive

"Roaming": in English as in French, the result is the same: an explosion in costs for businesses, which have to deal with increasingly connected business travellers and ever-increasing bills. A CCMI study commissioned by Truphone, a service provider specialising in reducing these costs, highlights the scale of the problem.
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CWT study: advice for travel managers faced with the business travel maze

The CWT Travel Management Institute has published a new study entitled "Air and ground transport: a practical guide to making savings": a range of updated advice on how to meet new market challenges and optimise business travel management.

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Deloitte report: business travellers take the long way in May

Deloitte-In Extenso has published a report on hotel performance in France for the month of May 2012, a month in which most business travellers stayed away from French establishments: the calendar, favourable to bank holidays, seems to have massively limited business travel.
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American Express study: concierge services make their mark on business travel

Ten years after its creation, the VIP-Concierge department of American Express Business Travel published on 19 April the results of a study into the state of the market among business customers. The document highlights the recent but still limited growth of concierge services within companies, as well as their main expectations of this top-of-the-range service.

AirPlus survey: encouraging outlook for business travel

AirPlus has published a survey designed to measure the growth expected in the business travel sector in 2012: figures are expected to stabilise or even increase this year, with significant variations depending on the region.

Opinion poll of Swiss business travellers

Car rental specialist Avis has published a survey of Swiss business travellers to identify the main trends in the sector, and has come up with a rather optimistic assessment.