Lionel Lassagne, Director of Sustainable Development, Lyon Airport
Lionel Lassagne, Director of Sustainable Development, Lyon Airport
Travel agencies: real partnerships with companies
It's a fact that travel agencies are becoming more and more efficient, providing solutions tailored to the needs of their customers, whatever their size, whether they are private or public companies.
Matthieu Gufflet Expert in non-production purchasing management at Epsa
What are the characteristics of the business travel agency market?
Matthieu Gufflet - In France, the market is highly concentrated. Two major international networks...
A rail portal for the SNCF
Last October, the SNCF launched a dedicated contact centre and website at www.portailentreprises. sncf.com. For some observers, it's a kind of online travel agency. For others, it's a portal. SMEs can book, pay for and manage tickets, season tickets and business cards, exclusively for business rail travel.
Business cards: inexorable growth
The business payment card sector continues to widen the gap with cash and cheques. At Visa Europe, for example, the...
Process : Expenses and recoverable VAT abroad
The management of business travel expenses is becoming increasingly automated. Less and less paper, dedicated IT tools, more and more...
Sébastien Alby, a lawyer in the group's human resources department...
The largest seeds company in the European Union and the fourth largest in the world, the Limagrain group, which controls Vilmorin & Cie in particular, achieves annual sales of...
Insurance: travelling covered
Accidents, political or health risks... whether travelling in France or around the world, business travellers are exposed to a wide range of dangers. Businesses turn to insurance companies and assistance firms, whose job is to do everything possible to ensure that business missions and short-term trips go off without a hitch.
Close-up of ACE Business Class
Following its recent facelift, the "ACE Business Class" insurance and assistance package provides better protection for companies and their employees, with a higher level of cover...
Michel Dieleman Travel manager, France Télécom Group
With a presence in 220 countries, the France Telecom group has 60,000 potential travellers who make 180,000 trips a year. Its travel manager, Michel Dieleman, has just...
Business travel: optimising management
Implementing a travel policy is one way of reducing the costs associated with business travel, and is part of a wider strategy to...
Substantial savings
A travel policy clearly defined by the company, high-performance online booking tools, consolidation of purchases at global level and... employee buy-in all help to...
Savings at every level at EDF and Gaz De France
When it comes to managing business travel, Europe's two leading energy companies, state-owned EDF and Gaz de France, are in a good position....
Remote collaboration: issues and consequences
The 2000s saw the emergence of a new way of thinking about collaboration and team management. At the root of this...
Pierre-Yves Tilly HR Director, HP France
How many people are affected by mobile working conditions at HP?
Pierre-Yves Tilly - Out of a total of 4,300 people in France,...
David Cartier, Marketing Manager, Premium and Corporate Cards...
Should we expect to see rapid growth in co-branding of corporate cards in France?
David Cartier: Undoubtedly, but in relatively small proportions...
Europay France, Mastercard international's representative in France
Authorised since 1967 as a financial company specialising in the management of means of payment, Europay France is a credit institution whose capital is held by six French banks that issue MasterCard cards: Crédit Agricole, Crédit Mutuel, Banques Populaires, Groupe CIC, La Poste and Crédit Lyonnais.
Air travel: increasing safety
Major progress has been made in terms of safety in the aviation sector. Roughly speaking, traffic has grown twice as fast...
Training centre and flight simulator
Air France has a pilot training centre at Paray/Orly. The airline also organises "Learn to fly" courses for stressed travellers...
Label Horizon
Created in 2006 at the initiative of the French government, the Horizon label is intended as a guarantee for consumers. It applies to airlines operating in...
