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Business travel
Martin Ferguson
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In brief
■ BCD wins account for US services giant
BCD Travel has won a multimillion-pound
contract to manage travel for Marsh & McLennan
Companies, a US-based professional services and
insurance firm. The global account includes risk
and insurance company Marsh, human resources
consultants Mercer, and the Oliver Wyman Group.
MMC employs about 55,000 people and last year
generated more than £5 billion in revenue.
■ Tickets on sale for ITM’s northern ball
Tickets for next month’s annual Institute of Travel
Management ball for the north region are fast
running out. The gala event, being held in the
Radisson Edwardian in Manchester, takes
place on November 22. Email Jean Handley on
jean.handley@honeywell.com or Danny Cockton
on
daniel.cockton@hrs.com for ticket enquiries.
Photos from the night will be on
ttgbusiness.com.
■ Czech Airlines offers free Prague taxi service HRG WINS WORLD CUP DEAL: HRG has won a contract to travel-manage the organising
Travellers flying on certain business-class fares committee for the Women’s World Cup in Germany in 2011. It is the second successive
are being offered a complimentary taxi service at contract the travel management company has won with tournament organisers Fifa. The
Prague airport when flying with Czech Airlines. A account will be managed by HRG’s German subsidiary, Euro Lloyd. HRG already works
dedicated customer hotline has been set up for with the German Football Association and ex-Champions League winners Bayern Munich.
passengers to call and book the free lift. The air-
line is asking agents to advise clients that drivers
will wait for only 15 minutes after the appointed
time. The hotline number is +420 239 007 240.
Corporate buyers
■ Travelport appoints Europe/Brazil chief
Travelport has appointed a managing director for
its newly formed Europe and Brazil region. Olaf
Gueldner will be responsible for growing the
admit travel cuts
technology company’s presence in the emerging
markets of both areas. Gueldner was previously to the last cyclical downturn in autumn 2000.
Martin Ferguson.
marketing director for Europe, the Middle East A QUARTER of corporate travel managers However, there is an order-of-magnitude
and Africa for car hire company Avis. He will be surveyed by the Business Travel Coalition have increase in the seriousness of the current
based at Travelport’s Langley headquarters. admitted their companies have introduced situation and in corporate responses regarding
emergency travel cutbacks in the last two weeks travel expenditures.”
■ Acte teams up with German eco body as a direct result of the global financial crisis. Almost 70% of respondents said that cutbacks
The Association of Corporate Travel Executives Some 192 travel managers from 14 countries would remain in place “until further notice”.
has partnered with Germany’s green travel were polled by the US-based consortium, of The research also found that travel budget
association, Verkehrsclub Deutschland (VCD), to which 72% were from the US. cuts had been good news for low-cost carriers in
release a series of guidelines for environmentally Of those who introduced cutbacks, 35% said the US, with many travellers ditching the pricier
friendly business travel. The VCD Toolkit includes they had suspended all travel, while almost 20% legacy carriers in favour of no-frills airlines.
recommendations on eco-conscious travel admitted to cuts in air travel. “Many corporations began cutting back on air
processes as well as green travel alternatives. The BTC commissioned the survey in response travel at the start of the year based on worsening
to heightened concern from members worried economic data,” the spokesman said. “Surveys in
ttglive.com
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about the prospect of a recession. the first quarter did not identify any worrying
visit
ttglive.com/ttgbusiness A spokesman said: “There is an eerie similarity trends, but this changed halfway into the year.”
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