Press Release
For Immediate Release
14 June 2006
Business Travel Managers Detail Benefits of Tighter Travel Policies and Reporting Practices – First Ever ACTE Executive Forum in Italy
London, England -- The benefits of a highly managed business travel programme and reporting policy is the subject of the first Executive Forum conducted by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE) in Italy. This education event was designed by the request of ACTE's Italian members and will take place in Milan on June 20, 2006. The half-day program begins with a session detailing the elements that make a travel program sufficiently stringent enough to maximize benefits to both travelers and corporations, while remaining flexible enough to capitalize on pricing developments.
The session titled, "Examining Corporate Travel Policy" presented by leading experts -- Andrea Guizzardi – Università degli Studi di Bologna; and Maura de Santis, Travel Manager, Fendi Spa (LVMH) -- provides an in-depth look at what makes a travel policy effective, supported by considerable anecdotal experience.
The second education session explores the corporate reporting process, with focus on traveler tracking, maximising travel spend, and missed savings opportunities. The presenters -- Nicoletta Parenti, Travel Manager, Takeda Farmaceutici and Dario Bongiovanni, Travel Manager, Sky Italia -- will also address the quality of data sources and how this technology can enable the conversion of information to intelligence. The session, "Reporting," will be followed by an audience question and answer.
"This forum is significant for several reasons," said Susan Gurley, ACTE Executive Director. "The first relates to the need for travel policies to be able to adapt to new shifts in corporate objectives, travel needs, and industry developments. The second is as the emphasis on cost-containment continues to grow, travel management specialists will be expected to have departments and programmes with the greatest return on the travel investment. Moreover, the Milan Executive Forum, the recent London Executive Forum (5 June) and the upcoming Paris Executive Forum (22 June) are setting the stage for ACTE's Global Education Conference in Barcelona (22-24 October 2006)."
The ACTE Executive Forum in Milan will convene with registration at 0930, on 20 June 2006, at the Hotel De la Ville, Milan (Via Hoepli, 6, 20121 Milan, Italy -- Tel. 028791311). Or you may register in advance at http://www.acte.org/events/milan_062006/teaser.shtml.
For more information, contact:
Debbie Flynn
CEO
Brighter Group
The Pod, London's Vertical Gateway
Bridges Wharf, Battersea
London SW11 3BE England
T: 020 7326 9880
F: 020 7326 9890
E: [email protected]
W: www.brightergroup.com