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Title:Incorporate Environmentally Friendly Practices Into Your Travel Management Program
Date:Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Time: 2:00 pm Eastern
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Nearly every business is evaluating how to be more environmentally friendly.This is not lost on corporate travel managers who are increasingly looking for way to proactively account for their environmental impact and reduce their carbon footprints.

Being more environmentally conscious is not just a trend as corporate travel buyers are now evaluating all aspects of travel management and policies. In line with this, they are looking at ways to do business with green-oriented companies and be more eco friendly in their travel practices.

However, environmental issues may be at the forefront of the industry, there is still a lack of consensus and standardization. Measuring carbon emissions from travel-related areas requires credible, auditable processes that allow conversions into dollars and validation that any carbon-offset programs are effective.

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Sponsor: American Express
Title:The Application of Procurement Practices to Travel Management
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A growing number of corporations are using more sophisticated measures of productivity, quality and service-including service-level agreements, key performance indicators and scorecards-that enhance the effectiveness of travel and meetings expenditures and help to select and evaluate travel service providers. Examining the models of measurement they devise, what they decide to measure and the tools they use to measure it can offer real value to almost any organization.
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Business travel buyers negotiating to meet ground transportation needs, including car rental, chauffeured transportation and rail services, must understand their alternatives and changing market conditions. Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive Webcast, and hear from industry travel experts on how to incorporate a comprehensive ground transportation strategy into your corporate travel plan. Attend this online-only event and learn how to negotiate the best arrangements for your company's specific travel requirements.
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Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive Web Seminar, and hear from industry experts about how to establish best practices and procedures that can accommodate shorter meeting lead times without busting the budget. Attend this online-only event and learn what your company can do to better handle these situations while adhering to your travel management policies.
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The U.S.-EU Open Skies agreement, effective March 30, is expected to send ripples through the corporate travel industry for years to come. Aviation experts expect the landmark deal to prod European airline consolidation, lower transatlantic fares, expand antitrust immunity among airlines and open more routes and frequencies between Europe and the United States. Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive Web Seminar, and hear from industry experts regarding the agreement's impact on your travel program.
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Title:The Leading Edge for Online Booking Tools: Trends in Online Booking Adoption, Technological Developments and Integration With Other Company Systems.
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Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive Web Seminar, and hear from industry experts regarding how online booking tools can save your company time and money. Attend this online-only event and learn what you need to consider and how to align internal communications and business processes before integrating online booking tools into your overall travel management system.
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Title: Implementing An Environmentally Friendly Travel Management Program
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Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive Web Seminar, sponsored by AirPlus, and hear directly from industry experts regarding how your company can incorporate a more environmentally friendly travel management program.

Attend this online-only event and hear what some companies are doing to put their best green foot forward and reduce their carbon footprints.
Sponsor: HRG
Title: Realize The Full Value Of Your Travel Management Initiative By Leveraging Best Practices In Travel Program Communications
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The success of a comprehensive travel management strategy rests on the effectiveness of travel buyers to communicate clearly with both travelers and senior management. Corporate intranets, e-mail newsletters and wireless alerts can help you give employees access to the right information to aid them in making good business travel decisions that comply with corporate travel policy. They also enable you to measure traveler satisfaction through surveys and complaint-resolution options.

Such communication strategies don't happen overnight. They need to evolve and comply with each individual company's internal business processes.

Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive web seminar, sponsored by HRG, and hear directly from industry experts regarding how your organization can get more out its travel management program by utilizing more effective communication vehicles. Attend this online-only event and learn how to establish best practices in travel policy communications.
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Title: Are You Getting The Most Out Of Your Travel Management Program? Learn How to Evolve Your Program While Driving Performance And Maximizing Value
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Today's corporate travel managers need a complete solution; one that better tracks travel expenditures, gives them more control over their travel budget and is flexible enough to adapt quickly to new methods of distribution and content fragmentation issues. A key part of this is the integration of travel related data and employee travel preferences to ensure a smooth and cost effective program. And while a key part to all programs is to drive down costs, the ability to accurately measure the performance is key. Incorporating an end-to-end solution with capabilities such as pre-trip reporting, online booking and reporting and expense management, when effectively integrated and communicated to travelers, result in quantum leaps forward in organizational effectiveness and traveler satisfaction. Join Business Travel News for this live, interactive web seminar, sponsored by HRG, and hear directly from industry experts on how to be ahead of the revolutionary curve in travel program impact.
Sponsor: AIRPLUS
Title: Put Your Data To Good Use: Learn How To Drive Cost Savings and Better Manage Corporate Travel Budgets
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There is no argument that in today's high demand, real-time enterprise world, information is king. Getting the right data is one thing. Utilizing that information to drive vendor negotiations, travel program compliance and better travel cost management is quite another.

Join this live, interactive Web Seminar, sponsored by AirPlus, and hear directly from industry experts on how to gather the right customer data and then use it correctly. Attend this online only event and learn how centralized payment methods and best practices not only help drive better data collection but operating efficiencies and ROI as well.
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