TRAVEL MANAGEMENT

Like the general public, the business world has its fashions, its new trends and... its acronyms. One of them has become inescapable since...

Often lumped together under the label of 'new entrants' - which, by definition, cannot be applied forever to players who are maturing - the...

Every year, the World Tourism Organisation, UNWTO, takes stock of the progress made around the world in facilitating the issuing of visas. Starting with a...

The news is rare enough to merit a mention: while Paris and Vienna have for many years shared the leadership of the global MICE market, this time it's an unprecedented destination that has come out on top. Berlin dominates the 2015 rankings of the International Congress & Convention Association (ICCA), the benchmark annual barometer for the MICE sector.

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.

A study published by the Association Française des Travel Managers (AFTM) aims - as its title emphasises - to draw up a "Checklist for understanding and...

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...

The booking tools available to travellers are no longer just for buying plane tickets or hotel nights. They integrate all the new players in the world of travel, while making it easier to manage expense accounts.

Since 1 March, Egencia has enabled business travellers and travel managers to add an extra piece of luggage when booking their flight,...

"Virtual communication solutions can now replace travel in many cases". Who would have thought, when...

It's hard to know how close the figures published by Captio are to reality. The fact remains that the European report published by...

Time is no object: travel professionals, who by definition have more experience of airports than the average traveller, are likely to be the first to...

Two days, or almost (1.9): this is the difference between male and female business travellers found by Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) in...

"Who is the business traveller in 2016? This is the question to which HRS is attempting to provide some answers, by...

AirPlus, the German payment solutions specialist, is reporting improved results for 2015. Its strategy focuses on a number of areas: international expansion, the integration of ancillary fees into its reporting tools, and the growth of its virtual card. In the meantime, we're looking forward to digital payment.

At a time when a significant proportion of hotel reservations are being made outside the traditional corporate booking channels, solutions publishers are looking to enhance their accommodation offering...

Stéphane Donders was appointed head of Traveldoo in January. At the Business Travel Show, held on 24 and 25...

Following on from RouteHappy, which was added to TripNavigator's air travel catalogue at the end of 2015, Egencia is now tackling urban transport to provide better support for...

"Heureux qui, comme Ulysse, a fait un beau voyage" (Happy who, like Ulysses, has made a beautiful journey)... No doubt Joachim du Bellay had this in mind when he wrote his famous sonnet...

Concur and GBTA have published a European survey of 741 French, German and British business travellers. The report, entitled "Booking Behaviour: The...