Tips
Tips from BCD Travel
Engage travelers and yield better-than-policy results through social enterprise
Miriam Moscovici, senior director of Emerging Technologies for BCD Travel, says social enterprise can help your travel program leverage the wisdom of the crowd while engaging travelers.
1. Increase your program’s value to travelers by providing useful social enterprise content. Business travel news Destination-related recommendations Mobile app recommendations Pint-size policy remindersReady, steady, manage!
A beginner’s guide to running corporate travel
Taking responsibility for a company travel program can be a scary prospect, even for experienced procurement professionals. BCD Travel and Advito experts unfold a roadmap to set newcomers on their way. Managing a travel program looks like a bewilderingly complex challenge to those handed the task for the first time. As
BCD Travel’s top 5 business customs in…Thailand
Each month BCD Travel offers its top five tips for doing business in a particular country, with corporate travel management clients welcome to request countries they are interested in by emailing Solange.Francois@bcdtravel.com.au.
This month we look at Thailand, a destination that’s particularly popular for meetings, incentives, conferences and events.
Top 5 business customs in Thailand: The ‘wai’ isExchange rates
The hidden cost of your corporate meetings
Staging an event in a country with a different currency creates significant unseen costs. Your bank could be charging up to 3 percent on the payment, and if exchange rates fluctuate between contract and settlement time, you could easily pay another 10 percent. How can you manage this
Free Twitter-style application ideal for corporate travel
Sapient, a marketing and technology firm in Boston, US, is using the free internet application, Yammer, as a way to communicate exclusively with staffers who regularly undertake business travel.
Yammer distinguishes itself from Twitter by allowing companies to use their email domains to define and delimit access. Users send short messages which are received by other users who have chosen
Have travelers become ruder over the years?
Many of the e-mails we receive from readers have a common theme: bad behavior. Sometimes that behavior is exhibited by travel industry employees. Sometimes by fellow travelers. And sometimes by the readers themselves. That’s the thing about bad behavior—it’s always easier to chronicle in third person rather than in first person.
In researching a travel story recently, I had the
Hertz First To Offer Online Check-In For All Customers Worldwide
Hertz is the first car rental company to launch a worldwide Online Check-in service for all of its customers. The service will speed up time at the counter for customers because their rental forms are completed in advance online. With Online Check-in, all Hertz customers can submit their profile details on the company’s secure website at their own convenience before
Corporate travellers notice: New UAE visa rules
Changes to renewal period and sponsorship regulations
The United Arab Emirates introduced new visa regulations in early August.
Citizens from the 33 countries which currently receive entry permits on arrival (see below) will largely be unaffected by the new rules. No matter what the purpose of their visit they will be granted an entry visa free of charge which is
Have laptop, will breeze through security?
New laptop cases may speed passage
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration is moving closer to easing one of the biggest post-9/11 security hassles: making airline travelers take laptops out of cases at airport checkpoints.
A policy likely to take effect in a few months would allow passengers to put certain types of cases through airport X-ray machines with laptops inside.
Technology Trends: Security and risk management
Airline disruptions, rail strikes, airport closures. Bird flu and the London Tube bombings.
Ongoing significant travel events have triggered the ever increasing need for rigorous destination and security intelligence. From pandemics and fires to impending natural disasters and union strikes, automation and centralized information build business resilience while reducing risks to travel plans.
Today, companies recognize the need to prepare