Press Release
For Immediate Release
13 November 2007
ACTE Partners with BCD Travel in Costa Rica to Hold “First Ever” Central America Education Summit
Alexandria, VA --
Business travel managers from across Central America will convene in Costa Rica next April, for the first Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) Executive Forum to be held in that country. In partnership with BCD Travel in Costa Rica, the event will be structured around a series of topics and issues dealing with proven travel management techniques, technological developments, and advanced travel management theory. The joint forum is being conducted in response to a growing request by travel managers throughout the region for a centrally located educational event “dealing with international travel from a strong local perspective.”
“The ACTE Central Education Summit in partnership with BCD Travel in Costa Rica will be international in scope with an agenda that addresses inter-regional travel, as well as topics that concern major global transportation issues,” said Susan Gurley, ACTE Executive Director. “The educational sessions will reflect the input of our constituency as expressed to the leadership.”
In addition to the traditional educational and roundtable discussions that have become an industry standard for ACTE events held around the world, the Costa Rica event will also host a smaller version of the association’s wildly successful “Solutions Showcase.” This will include specialized presentation of new travel technology and services of special interest to travel managers throughout the region. Provisions are being made to make this one of the “greenest” of ACTE’s events, and handouts will be replaced by flash drive sticks, to minimize paper usage.
This is but one of a series of events that will mark ACTE’s growing presence throughout the Latin American region; and one of several “expanded” presentations timed to commemorate the association’s 20th Anniversary. According to industry experts, the two secrets of ACTE’s widespread acceptance around the world is respect and ob
Registration information and a complete program agenda will be posted on ACTE’s website (www.acte.org) shortly.
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