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United we stand – How to..
07.01.2021 - Case story
It's time to make important decisions about your partnerships with airlines, hotels and travel management companies. Covid has changed everything, and vendor relationships in corporate travel are no exception. On the one hand your company is almost certainly travelling far less than before the crisis. Therefore you are spending less than budgeted with contracted travel suppliers and service providers such as travel management companies. On the other hand, when your people do travel, you need be...
Road to recovery – Your..
Businesses are desperate to get their people moving again after coronavirus lockdown, but continuing restrictions make travel a challenging undertaking. This step-by-step guide reveals how to put your travellers safely back on the road. Every crisis has its winners. During the coronavirus lockdown, Zoom has attracted up to 300 million videoconferences every single day. Yet businesses know they need to start travelling again. Signing new customers, looking after existing ones, new product devel...
Managing global travel’s..
Taking your managed travel programme cross-border is all about standardisation. But whether too small or because of unusual local market conditions, some countries just don’t sit comfortably with a global process. How can you get the best results for these markets within your wider strategy? When people who manage multinational travel programmes meet, the first thing they usually discuss is size. “One manager will say they cover 10 countries, the next will claim they have 20 and so...
Posted Workers Directive..
Tighter rules on pay and conditions for employees from one EU country working in another could mean business travellers have to start carrying certification on foreign trips. A team of engineers from Italy arrives at a plant in France to start a three-month contract. The receptionist invites them to produce their Posted Worker and A1 certificates, at which point the project leader asks: “What certificates?”. Someone from the human resources department is summoned, who tells the Ital...
6 ways TPE members save..
Strikes, bad weather, air traffic control failures ... unfortunately, there are many reasons business travellers regularly have their journey plans disrupted. When a flight is cancelled or delayed, you need help fast: it’s a race against time to get booked on the next most convenient departure before any of your fellow passengers. And that’s when the value of booking with TPE instead of on an airline website or via an online travel agency really shines through.TPE versus airlines an...
Join forces with other s..
TravelpoolEurope (TPE) is a successful joint venture between a large group of big Scandinavian companies, for example Coloplast, COOP Danmark, Fujitsu, Aller Group, and Ambu. The group has a combined travel budget of 650 mio. dkk. and has through a joint procurement setup reached documented savings of 10-24% on their business travel spend across 30 countries. What does it mean to be a part of TPE? For corporate companies who join the TPE Group – it means that you no longer have to worry...
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