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Advancing the Industry Award View 2006 Award Winners


Distribution Channels going Wireless & Mobile: How Should Travel Managers Respond?

Singapore
13 March 2007
Suntec Convention Centre, Singapore

Co-located at the Eyefortravel / Travel Distribution Summit Asia 2007

The need for computing speed is matched only by the call for better content and greater mobility. The distribution of business travel products is not immune to this as corporations expect more from their distribution channels and travel technology providers. Wireless and mobile technologies have been billed as carrying the highest potential to drive business efficiency, improving travelling employees’ productivity, communication and wider supplier partnerships for the benefit of customers.

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Agenda

09:45 – 10:00

Registration

10:00 – 10:30

Welcome & ACTE Update

10:30 – 11:30

At Your Door Step: New Travel Technology

This presentation talks about the latest wireless and mobile technology that may change the way business travel products will deliver value to corporation and the traveller. Listen to what these technologies will do to business travel and its management practice. What is the price of these innovative products and how will it affect ROI. What will these do to policy compliance controls?

Presenter:
Johnny Thorsen, Independent Consultant

11:30 – 12:30

GDS of the Future or Something Totally Different?

With the onset of new technological innovation what will the GDS of tomorrow look like … or will this model that we know now be pushed into the archives? Whichever way it evolves, travel managers and suppliers a vested interest in what the final outcome will be. Hear the predictions of a GDS expert and the comments of GDS customers.

Presenter:
Peter Smith, Vice President, E-Commerce, Amadeus

12:30 – 12:45

Closing Remarks