Questions to Ask When Hiring a Business Travel Services Provider

Business travel services companies can deliver a wealth of benefits including; saving you money on bookings, and added value through additional services and saving time.

If you’re looking to change the company you use for corporate travel, or are thinking of hiring a business travel services provider for the first time, below are some useful questions [...]

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Odyssey Airlines set to challenge BA

A source from the aviation industry has recently said that a company is looking to challenge British Airways for business class passengers flying between London and New York. The venture is a British-based company called Odyssey Airlines which is going to be starting flights between the two cities and all of the seats on the [...]

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Hogg Robinson Group warns businesses to avoid London Olympics

Hogg Robinson Group (HRG) encourages businesses to take a long hard thought about whether or not they should be in London while the Olympic Games are being held because of such little hotel accommodation available in the city. The company that deals in travel management raised concerns with the limited number of rooms that are [...]

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Third of businesses question the value and viability of business travel

A new study has indicated a disconnect between the increasing use of business travel in Europe and declining value. Business executives say that 25% are going to increase their volume of travel in 2011 while 33% question whether the business actually benefits from the travel and that many think out of the office meetings could [...]

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Has business air travel changed for ever?

During the recession the trend of business travel has had changes. Premium and business travel is important for airlines to help their profits but because of the recession the demand has changed. During the recession there was found a significant reduction in short-haul flights and not received much good news as the recovery has started [...]

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Business still wants to make good use of business travel

According to a recent UBS poll of corporate travel managers, business travel expenditures for airfares are holding steady or increasing over last year’s spending.  Even with such negative factors as increased ancillary fees and an overall rise in the cost of airfare, only a small percentage of the businesses surveyed indicated that they would be [...]

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Business travelers very prone to obesity

People that do a great deal of traveling due to business could be very prone to obesity while they also could be in the high risk category for high blood pressure as well, this according to a study done at Columbia University. The study concluded that the more someone travels because of work, the more [...]

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Business travel to Japan comes to a complete stop

Japan is no longer an attractive business destination.  Due to its crippling disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis the country has become a no-go area for corporate travelers and the problems there effect travel economies world over.

Cancellations of between 60 and 95% have been reported. Travel companies are worried about the financial impact. Many [...]

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Business travel edges upwards again

The Hogg Robinson Group, a top travel management company, stated that there is still an optimistic increase in business travel. They revealed that January ended a four month streak where travel bookings and client spending were higher by 15%. HRG also reported in revenue in an interim management statement a 13% rise during the same [...]

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Dubai to become ‘the place’ to hold your conference in 2012

Sourcing the right place to hold an international conference is a matter of fine balance between costs, facilities, accessibility and that hard to define ‘wow factor’. Recently, an increasing number of organizations are choosing Dubai as their conference venue, from medical institutions to global finance and trade organisations. Dubai already hosts a growing number of [...]

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