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Posts Tagged ‘global recession’

30
NOV
2009

Business Travel Flashlight

Posted in Facts and Figures by Florian Gränzdörffer
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Duration of Business Flight Trips: Global Average  increased from 2.2 days to 2.4 days (2009)

Business trips increase in duration


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18
SEP
2009

More Self-Confidence is Allowed

Posted in Blog, Industry Topics by Volker Huber
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Volker Huber, Senior Vice President Global Sales & Solutions, AirPlus

Volker Huber

Travel managers have never been more sought-after for pushing through cost reductions than right now. However, they are often not sufficiently backed by their companies’ managements to play out the aces they have up their sleeves. 

Travel managers currently have many reasons to be content. For one reason, the global recession draws more attention to them than ever before.


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03
APR
2009

New AirPlus ACTE Whitepaper on the role of Travel Managers in the global recession

Posted in Blog, Industry Topics by Richard Crum
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Richard Crum

Richard Crum

By Richard Crum, President, AirPlus International, Inc.

In the current economic climate, Travel Management is more important than ever. It’s improving the role and status of travel managers in one very notable way. Last year’s AirPlus International Travel Management Study of 1,500 travel managers in 15 countries provided significant evidence that lack of time, resources and status was preventing them from optimizing the power of their travel programs. Fast forward to 2009 and there appears to have been a change.


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