Optimising Opportunities: Career, Card & Online Tools

Sydney, Australia
Swissotel

24 November 2005

One-way ACTE advances the business travel industry is by providing regional venues for business travel professionals to exchange insights, share knowledge, and debate hot topics. When you participate in an ACTE Executive Forum, you'll benefit from the combined talents of ACTE's 2,500 international members - all dedicated to professional growth through the constant identification of emerging issues, continuing education and on-going peer networking.

Opportunities abound but they can only be advantageous for you and your company when you make the most optimal decision. Discover the key areas to pay careful attention to in making decisions regarding your travel management career and where your next step may be. Becoming strategic managers begins with personal change management. Then analyse how corporations take full advantage of card services and what you need to do in constructing a card programme that works best for your company. Finally we place the new offerings of online tools under the microscope to enable you to make the right decisions for your organisation.






  Agenda

12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Registration

12:30 p.m. - 13:00 p.m.

Welcome and Opening Remarks

13:00 p.m. - 14:30 p.m. Networking Lunch: "Strategic Foresight for Travel Managers"
The careers of travel management professionals have been under pressure in an environment where strategic procurement has grown in stature, as technology has automated other traditional processes and other external developments. Transform your careers into positions of strength? Discover new avenues that enable you to develop into a strategic manager.

14:30 p.m. - 15:30 p.m. New Online Offerings: Asia-Pacific's Response
Online Booking Tools are making quantum leaps in technology, enabling it to roll out new product benefits that are supposed to deliver both superior features and efficient processes. But exactly how enthusiastic are Asia-Pacific's corporations in accepting these offerings? The presentation makes an objective assessment of the advantages that these online products' bring corporations. Then offer your opinions concerning the real gaps that exist in the online booking technologies.

15:30 p.m. - 16:00 p.m. Coffee Break

 
16:00 p.m. - 17:15 p.m. Roundtable: "Clever Use of Card Products: From Card to Finish"
The credit card is known by many names but it is essentially a payment instrument or transaction service … or is that all? Cards offer other benefits and functionalities but questions remain:
  • How do corporations use them and what do you do to extract maximum utility?
  • How do you contract a card and what should you be looking for?
  • How do you integrate your card into your programmes?


17:15 p.m. - 17:30 p.m. Wrap Up & Closing Remarks

  Forum Location & Hotel Accommodations

Swissotel Sydney
68 Market Street
Sydney, Australia

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