Hotel reservations: an increasingly interconnected world
For a long time, this was a real headache. But the world of hotel reservations now offers companies greater clarity when it comes to rationalising this major budget item.
The travel manager profession: no room for improvisation
Like the business travel sector, the profession of travel manager has undergone profound change in recent years. By opening up to new fields of action, the new mobility manager has made himself indispensable to the company and its travellers.
Interview with Sabah Kahoul, Managing Director of Business Travel Purchase
Sabah Kahoul, Managing Director of Business Travel Purchase, is well acquainted with the ins and outs of the travel manager's job, having held it at Microsoft. She shares with Voyages d'Affaires her analysis of a rapidly evolving profession.
Duty of care: International SOS highlights shortcomings in travel policies
To coincide with the publication of its traditional Travel Risk Map, International SOS has unveiled a survey highlighting the need to improve travel policies in terms of "duty of care".
Reduced mobility: disability lags behind business travel
Although all discrimination is prohibited, disabled travellers and those with reduced mobility feel that they are not given much consideration by carriers and travel operators. In the face of charters and declarations of good intentions, these customers expect more results in their daily lives to make travelling easier.
Start-ups think of PRM travellers
New technologies, applications and data sharing are making life easier for people with disabilities, helping them to get around, communicate, find their way around, visit... Start-ups have also developed tools that, while not specifically designed for PRM travellers, simplify their journeys.
Accor reinvents the disabled room
At the heart of its Paris head office, Accor-Hotels is presenting its Smart Room, a room concept designed for everyone: people with reduced mobility, families, business travellers...
Travel policy: do travellers have their say?
The majority of companies have now adopted travel policies to control expenditure and guarantee the safety of their employees. But these rules do not always take into account the experience of the main stakeholder, the traveller, who may be tempted to free themselves from an overly oppressive straitjacket.
Interview with Pascal Jungfer, CEO of Areka Consulting
Pascal Jungfer, CEO of Areka Consulting, stresses the importance of having a travel policy that is agreed between the various departments of a company in order to strengthen compliance. The rules also need to be updated regularly enough to keep pace with the human and economic realities of business travel.
Greener travel for employees
As part of the drive for greener growth, companies are being asked to improve employee mobility. Nearly 20,000 sites are required to introduce Mobility Plans. The range of actions is wide, from promoting public transport to encouraging cycling, car-sharing, car-pooling and teleworking.
Baolau, a key booking site for business travel in Asia
Baolau, a start-up created by two Spaniards in Vietnam, integrates the services offered by airlines, railways and ferry companies in South-East Asia. An extremely useful site for business travellers in the Mekong sub-region.
Women in business travel: the slow mix of genders
Gender equality is also an issue when it comes to business travel. There are more and more female business travellers, and this is forcing suppliers to adapt their offer. Against this backdrop, safety is a key issue.
AccorHotels Business Solution: a four-in-one platform to optimise hotel spending
Bookings at more than 3,000 hotels worldwide, centralised payment, traveller management, monitoring of accommodation expenditure: with the AccorHotels Business Solution online platform, SMEs and SMIs have everything they need to rationalise their accommodation budget.
Automating the management of expense claims
Having worked on reservations to improve control over rates, companies are now turning their attention to the automated management of expense claims. The aim is to save employees time while reducing the cost of processing invoices.
Survey: frequent travellers
The daily life of business travellers is made up of new high-tech habits, little tricks to limit the stress of business travel, and personal choices when it comes to hotels or seats on planes. Here's a look at some of the nomadic executives who are always between trains and planes.
EVP Barometer: travel policy under the microscope
American Express GBT unveiled its traditional EVP Business Travel Barometer at the EVP trade fair. This is an opportunity to take stock of the priorities of Travel Managers, who are expected to attach greater importance to the traveller and his or her safety. And they are expecting an increase in travel expenditure.
Hotels: questions about negotiated rates
HRS and the GBTA Foundation have published a study on compliance with negotiated hotel rates as part of travel programmes. It reveals that companies all too rarely check the gap between the theoretical rate and the invoice. And wrongly so...
Savings and comfort: the recipe for success according to Egencia and Sabre
Egencia and Sabre have published a white paper entitled "2017 The Year of the Business Traveller: Four Keys to Supporting Global Employees". The aim is to reconcile savings and comfort.
Loyalty programmes in search of personalisation
With their loyalty programmes promising miles and wonders, the business travel industry has managed to capture the attention of its regular customers with reward tickets, free nights and VIP advantages. To go even further, their strategies revolve around three pillars: digitalisation, personalisation and emotion.
White paper: how to improve compliance with travel policies
According to Carlson Wagonlit Travel's latest white paper, compliance with travel policies can reduce the savings companies miss out on by 15 %.
