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So Quiet Revolution in the Business Travel Industry

Since 2005, ACTE has incorporated the subject of "Demand Management" into its education curriculum by discussing how our industry can effectively use Demand Management as a complement to traditional travel programmes. Combined with revenue-generating travel, Demand Management technology can save time, money, and help a company's environmental footprint.

Does your organization have a Demand Management product you would like to exhibit at a future ACTE conference? Contact Noel Lee at [email protected] for more information about TransACTE - Transforming the Business Travel Marketplace, an environmentally preferrable alternative to the traditional trade show.

Demand Management, Telepresence Technology, and Your Travel Programme

Telepresence technology is a high-end real-time videoconferencing format that provides participants with the sense of being in the same location and presence of other meeting participants. Even before the current economic conditions made cost reduction a strategic priority in the business travel sector, many corporations were choosing telepresencing as a compliment to their travel programmes. Now, in addition to cost savings, the potential return on investment using telepresencing as a component of a travel programme goes beyond travel spend avoidance by also supporting the reduction of a company’s carbon foot print, improving employees work/life balance, and employee productivity.

In addition to reducing travel spend by 10 to 15 percent in one year, Demand Management can:

  • Make your travel program more strategic: Some companies spend 40 percent of their travel on internal meetings. Demand Management redefines priorities within the travel program.
  • Increase your Corporate Social Responsibility: Demand Management helps organizations limit their environmental impact, as well as improve the quality of life for their employees.
  • Promote behavioral change: Demand Management defines what’s important to your organization.

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Ready or Not...Demand Management Is Here

Has your senior management expressed an interest in exploring virtual technologies to reduce travel costs, decrease carbon emissions, or improve the work-life balance? Regardless of where your company falls on the demand management spectrum, travel is being asked to raise it up a notch. Learn from companies who have successfully integrated virtual technology into their own travel and meetings’ programs:

  • Where to start
  • Challenges to consider
  • Automation options
  • Realistic bottom-line results

Demand Management Resources

  • Demand Managment: Managing the Consumption of Business Travel
    Education Session delivered at the 2008 ACTE Asia-Pacific Education Conference in Singapore
  • Demand Management
    Panelists discuss strategies for demand management and focusing on how to effectively use their program spend at the 2007 ACTE Global Education Conference in Munich.
  • The Perfect Storm for Telepresence and Videoconferencing
    Ryan Brandonis talks about the benefits of incorporating the Halo studio into your business.
  • 2008 Aviation Forecast
    Kelly Hart talks about the changes coming in 2008 that will effect the travel industry.
  • Canadian Business Travel Outlook 2008
    Report on the first annual ACTE and Conference Board of Canada Canadian Business Travel Outlook 2008 survey.
  • Future Value and Demand Management
    Focuses on the non-mandated environment and explores savings that can be achieved by managing demand for travel. How to become a valued business consultant within your own corporation and improve performance through: finding savings through a re-examination of policy, selling demand management to management, compliance monitoring, and evaluating and communicating alternatives. Singapore.(1 of 2)
  • Future Value and Demand Management
    Focuses on the non-mandated environment and explores savings that can be achieved by managing demand for travel. How to become a valued business consultant within your own corporation and improve performance through: finding savings through a re-examination of policy, selling demand management to management, compliance monitoring, and evaluating and communicating alternatives. Singapore. 22-23 August 2007.
  • The Human Factor
    With new technologies, virtual meetings are shifting from a high cost, big footprint investment to a low cost, small footprint alternative to travel. Presentation discusses: availability of converged conferencing, the effect these technologies will have on demand and what kind of business travel is most likely to be affected.
  • Tightening the Travel Spend Belt to the Next Notch
    Presenters talk about demand management in the travel industry.

For additional Demand Management Resources, please visit our special section in ACTE Connect.

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