With Bird Office, BNP Paribas experiments with free meetings in Paris
BNP Paribas is trialling a new service in Paris with Bird Office. The bank hires out some of its premises - branches and business centres - to its customers free of charge, so that they can organise meetings, training sessions or any other corporate event.
NDC, MICE: the GBTA MasterClass takes stock
GBTA France organised its MasterClass event on 6 July. It was an opportunity to shed new light on the most crucial issues in business travel, such as the development of the NDC standard and the rapprochement between MICE and Travel purchases.
Banks Sadler joins American Express Meetings & Events
American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) has announced the acquisition of Banks Sadler, a London-based agency specialising in meeting and event management.
Meetings & events: the online offering is growing and becoming more refined
The French meetings and events market is going digital, attracting new players like Oui Business.
Bird Office launches a comprehensive offering for large companies
One-stop billing, simplified booking, SAP integration, reporting: Bird Office is launching a solution tailored to the needs of large companies when it comes to organising their business events.
CWT Meetings & Events joins forces with International SOS
Carlson Wagonlit Travel's Meetings & Events division now includes a security component, thanks to a partnership with specialist International SOS.
Insurance and growth on the Business Table menu
Business Table has just launched cancellation insurance. The business meal reservation and management solution is continuing to grow, with the aim of covering half the catering offer in France within three years.
Choose & Work: a new player in meeting space rental
A new French player is entering the online workspace rental market. Choose & Work offers companies, hoteliers and business centres the opportunity to rent out their unused spaces to an increasingly mobile professional clientele.
BTS study: Travel Managers take control of meetings
According to a study published by the Business Travel Show, which kicks off in London on 22 February, the scope of Travel Managers' activities is expanding to include Meetings & Events.
2017: American Express predicts a slowdown
American Express Meetings & Events has published its "Meetings 2017 Forecast", based on its own data and on content from outside the agency, which expects budgets to stabilise next year.
Computer graphics: "Design the office of tomorrow
A survey of 400 ESSEC students shows how the office of the future will be organised. Open space, Google-style organisation, coworking: future managers attach crucial importance to their working environment.
Interface, payment : BizMeeting steps up a gear
The announcement of a fund-raising operation in June - a million euros, all the same - heralded some major changes at...
New resources, new ambitions for BizMeeting
Two years after its launch, BizMeeting has just announced that it has raised €1 million in funding. The booking platform dedicated to seminars and conferences...
Meetings: Eurosites switches to Bird Office technology
This is a landmark partnership in the young history of Bird Office, and perhaps even on the scale of the French meeting room hire market. In any case, it will validate - if proof were needed - the legitimacy of the French start-up, by endorsing the reliability of the solutions developed by Bird Office over recent months.
Reed Expositions France and SAFI opt for MagicStay
New entrants are pairing up with established players: just a few days after Eurosites announced that it would be adopting Bird Office technology, it was the turn of...
Coworking: the beginning of the beginning
With the advent of technology, the world of work is becoming increasingly mobile. In this context, coworking spaces are beginning to impose their community atmosphere, offbeat, very "generation Y". It's a social phenomenon that business centres intend to take on board.
Meet Eugen Miropolski, Managing Director Europe of WeWork
"It's not a story ofage but a state of mind".
Testimony: William Van Den Broeck, founder of La Mutinerie
"At La Mutinerie, we mainly welcome freelancers, designers and graphic artists, but we also welcome architects, consultants, developers, translators,...
Interview : Bertrand Mabille, Executive Vice President, France and Mediterranean, Carlson Wagonlit (CWT)
"The market is still looking for the right structure".
Events become part of business travel
Slowly but surely, the policies governing meetings and events and those governing business travel are moving towards integration. As companies seek to rationalise their overall expenditure, business travel agencies are seeking to respond to this new challenge.
