The Corporate Travel & Expense Management Forum

The Corporate Travel & Expense Management Forum addresses the rapid changes and the difficulties affecting business travellers and corporate budgets today, offers some suggestions as to how to deal with them, and provides an opportunity for attendees to network with their peers.

Recent themes have included:

• Re-engineering the Buying Process
• Managing Business Travel in a Recession
• Getting the best 'Value for Money' when buying travel

Session moderators and panellists come from organisations such as:

The Spring Event, the nineteenth to be organised, was fully booked once again.

This latest event, with the theme "Re-engineering the Buying Process", was held at the Hesperia-Victoria Hotel in London; Tuesday 20th April 2010.

Sessions included:

• The Changing Face of the Travel Transaction
  VAT changes, APD increases and the unbundling of product costs are all making cost allocation of the travel transaction ever more complex and difficult to account for. The panel will explore how best to understand and untangle this process.
  
  
• Who delivers What Management Information?
  This session looks at the various sources of management information for both travel and meetings: from cards through TMCs to the suppliers themselves. Who supplies what and how can this data be organised to best suit a companies reporting needs?
  
  
• Comparing and Benchmarking Suppliers: How, Why and When?
  The panel will consider the increasing benefits of regular reviews of suppliers in a buyers market, the dynamic of competition and 'cost versus value' together with the new tools for comparing an ever more complex array of products and services.

Read here for the delegates comments.

This Forum is operated in conjunction with the Association of Corporate Travel Executives (ACTE Global)

Below is a small gallery of images from the event; for more please click here.