Business travel will increase in 2004 to and from the ten new EU member countries:…
Business travel will increase in 2004 to and from the ten new EU member countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia, Malta and Cyprus. As the significance of business travel grows, companies will have to ensure quality and must control costs.
The 2nd Workshop Business Travel Management at ITB Berlin, Germany, will focus on these aspects. The event takes place Monday, March 15, 2004, from 10.00 a.m. to 12.00 noon, at ICC Berlin, room 42a. This English-language workshop deals with basic methods, strategies and tools to optimize business travel management. Publisher Gerd Otto-Rieke, who has been involved in business travel since 1981 and published many books and articles about corporate travel, will give an introduction to Business Travel Management dealing with questions as Where to start when organizing business travel in a company? and What are sensible objectives, how to organize the ongoing process? He will go through the ten main steps to achieve good results.
Kirsi Hyvarinen, project manager at the business consulting firm BearingPoint in Dusseldorf, will present the VDR Business Travel Report Germany 2003. Together with VDR The Business Travel Association of Germany she pioneered to set up and produce this research. Being the first representative study of its kind worldwide, the report sheds lights on various subjects which are of interest in most countries. The results inform about travel policies, procurement of travel products, contract management, the usage of online booking tools, methods of payment and other organizational issues. Business Travel Planning Tools is the topic of Lynne Fraser from Official Airline Guides (OAG), UK. She offers a hands-on presentation about what modern tools are available to assist travel managers and corporate travellers to plan their trips with the greatest flexibility and reliability. While the back bone of international travel is air traffic, other elements such as hotel accommodation, rail and car rental have to be organized as well. To control travel, a basic inventory of tools is necessary.
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