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Travel Management: Adding value to your Company & Clients during challenging times
Qatar
TBD January 2010
ACTE once again brings together the regions most influential business travel buyers and suppliers to discuss and debate the most pertinent issues facing the corporate travel industry today.
Join your fellow Travel Industry professionals at this Doha Executive Forum and be privy to some of the most relevant information designed to assist you in adding value to your company and clients during a difficult economic climate. Whether you are a Travel or Procurement Manager, a supplier of travel related products and services or are responsible for making your companies travel bookings, by attending this event you will gain some key strategies and insights from industry innovators which will impact positively on the value that you deliver to your company or clients.
You will also have the opportunity to network and interact with the regions upper echelon buyers and suppliers of business travel and make new contacts as well as positively influence processes and trends affecting your daily business activities by stating your views during the interactive Q & A sessions.
Please contact Cindy Nell on +27 11 792 0241 or [email protected] for further details on this event.
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Agenda
| 08:30 – 09:15 |
Registration & NetworkingTea, Coffee & Pastries Served. |
| 09:15 – 09:30 |
Opening, Welcome & ACTE Update |
| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Setting the scene – How difficult economic times impact our industryThe effects of the most recent economic crisis were certainly felt on a worldwide scale and are still having far-reaching implications in every corner of the globe. But how do these tough economic times specifically affect our business travel industry? This session will give an overview of the challenges facing buyers and suppliers of business travel both locally and across the globe. |
| 10:00 – 10:45 |
Global versus Local - Doing Global business in a Local marketplaceAre there opportunities for locally-established Travel Agents and TMC’s to do business with larger multi-national organisations? What needs to be done as far as service levels, technology products and best practices in order to satisfy these larger, global organisations and entice them to place their business with local companies? What benefits can global organisations reap when supporting local suppliers? This session will discuss these and related issues and encourage dialogue between the industry sectors. |
| 10:45 – 11:15 |
Tea & Coffee Break |
| 11:15 – 12:00 |
Cost cutting strategies – Is there anywhere left to turn?What new avenues are companies investigating for cost savings? Many believe an effective and innovative travel policy can make all the difference when trying to curb costs during tough economic times. But what types of amendments and procedures could be put in place to drive savings and how do we mandate these updates and get our travelers to comply? Can we cut our spend but not our trips? This session will give some fresh ideas and perspectives on the use of Travel policy and innovation to drive for increased savings and improved traveler behavior. |
| 12:00 – 13:00 |
Budget Travel versus Legacy TravelMany organisations look to low cost carriers and budget hotels as options for curbing travel costs. But is this a knee-jerk reaction and will there be ‘business as usual’ when the economy improves? This session investigates the pro’s and con’s of budget travel and how low cost products affects the business travel industry. |
Forum Location and Hotel Accommodations
W Doha Hotel and Residences
West Bay
Doha, Qatar
+974 453 5353