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Identifying The Value of Managed Travel
Mumbai
14 October 2010
The Westin Mumbai
Thank you for your interest in the ACTE Executive Forum in Mumbai. We look forward to your attendance at this half-day event designed to respond to the key issues affecting the business travel industry.
Driving the global business travel industry in 2009 will be the need to economize and optimize travel spend to find savings opportunities for the corporation. As belt-tightening takes hold in the industry, ACTE educational events promise to reveal the strategies and initiatives from programs that are successfully meeting the challenge to reduce travel spend and showcase their results. Among topics the 2009 Forum and PowerTalk events will examine include:
- Spend categories that offer the best savings opportunities through sourcing
- Synergies to be realized through integrating meetings and transient travel programs
- The perfect storm for policy tightening and better compliance
- Optimizing technology for savings and service
- Demand management & supplier management
- Managing the pennies—finding savings in incidental travel spend
- The "last mile" of consolidation
- Less managed may = reduced spend
Regardless of the topic ACTE local education events guarantee you will leave the program with learning that can be put to use immediately and derive benefits for you and your company.
ACTE Executive Forums are half-day events held regularly throughout its six regions around the world. Designed to be responsive to the key issues affecting the business travel industry, Executive Forums provide informed commentary from industry experts and suggest marketplace solutions you can immediately implement into your travel programme. A typical forum will bring together 75-100 senior-level executives from the business travel industry and beyond.
Agenda
| 09:15 – 10:00 |
Registration |
| 10:00 – 10:15 |
Welcome RemarksBK Sim, Regional Director, Asia-Pacific, Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) |
| 10:15 – 11:15 |
Why Travel Policy (and Compliance) MattersThis session will review evidence from studies that have been conducted which demonstrate the effect of an observed and followed travel policy on travel programme savings and which areas of policy offer the greatest potential for value. |
| 11:15 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
Stepping Beyond India, Going GlobalCorporations in India are increasingly extending their global reach in their business activities. Business travel executives are finding that they have to transition from managing travel programmes with a local/regional scope to programmes with a global scale. What should a travel manager look out for when negotiating global contracts? How does she/he engage global partners effectively to ensure success for the travel programme? This session will draw out key learning points on these issues. |
| 12:30 – 13:45 |
Networking Lunch |
| 13:45 – 14:45 |
Where is Travel Technology Taking Us?News of innovation in business travel technology comes at us at an ever increasing pace. How do we make sense of it and leverage existing and emerging technologies to strengthen our travel programmes? This session will seek to examine these issues and provide participants with concrete ideas to take away. |
| 14:45 – 15:45 |
Roundtable : I’ve Just Been Appointed Travel Manager, Now What?What are the essential roles and responsibilities of a travel manager? This session will take a 360-degree view of the position to gain an understanding of how the role is viewed from the universes of suppliers, TMC and the corporation. Discussion will next flow to what initiatives a new travel manager should be prepared to tackle once he/she gains mastery of the essentials. |
| 15:45 – 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 – 16:45 |
Keynote PresentationPresenter to be determined. |
| 16:45 – 17:00 |
Closing Remarks |
Forum Location and Hotel Accommodations
The Westin Mumbai
International Business Park, Oberoi Garden City, Goregaon (east)
Mumbai, Maharashtra 400063, India
Tel: +91(0) 22 6147 0000