BCD Travel highlights integrated strength at Business Travel Show

BCD Travel, BCD Meetings & Incentives and Advito showcase individual and collective expertise in Corporate Travel Management, MICE and Consulting respectively on Stand 339

London, 13 February 2007 – BCD Travel, the world’s third largest global travel management company and a market leader in the UK, is to be joined by BCD Meetings & Incentives and Advito on Stand 339 at the Business Travel Show 2007 – marking the first time that all three leaders in their respective fields of corporate travel management, MICE and consulting services are showcased together in the United Kingdom.

According to Chris Crowley, Director of Sales, BCD Travel, the move represents a significant milestone in the life of the company and for corporate travel management as a whole in this key European market:

“This time last year, our company was yet to be launched. Now, in less than 12 months, BCD Travel has increased its operating network to over 90 countries, established itself as a leading Travel Management Company in Europe, third worldwide, and enhanced its service offering through the introduction of two independent operating units with strong, established expertise and a proven record of delivery in the fields of meetings & events and consulting services respectively.”

Visitors to the BCD Travel stand at this year’s Business Travel Show will be able to experience a suite of innovative online solutions designed to empower corporate travel and procurement managers with greater control and efficiency over their travel and travel expense management lifecycle, whilst helping to keep business travellers safe and on mission. These innovations include the introduction of:

DecisionSourceTM: Data Manager – An information management platform that provides at-a- glance information to measure programme effectiveness, spot trends, improve cash management and drive savings and compliance. Data Manager supplies vital information to cross-functional teams – online and on-demand.

DecisionSourceTM: Security Manager – A comprehensive global security and crisis management platform that provides impact and event classification and monitoring, destination monitoring, and proactive traveller tracking.

TravelSourceTM: Agent – A comprehensive agent solution designed to re-aggregate disparate content from multiple channels into a single source, including low cost carriers. TravelSource: Agent enables and ensures consistency in product and service delivery to corporations, while applying and driving travel policy compliance, adhering to preferred supplier programmes and incorporating individual and corporate travel preferences.

TravelSourceTM: Portal – One of the most advanced and flexible web-based corporate travel tools available in the industry today. Accessible 24 hours a day, the portal provides access to online booking engines, expense management systems, personalised travel information and travel news – all integrated into a single, intuitive environment.

Alongside these online innovations from BCD Travel, visitors to Stand 339 will also be able to leverage greater return on their meetings and incentives investment through BCD Meetings & Incentives.

BCD Meetings & Incentives helps corporations to control their annual meeting spend, leverage their meetings volume to gain efficiencies, increase sales or market share through top-tier incentive programmes, successfully launch new products and more. Whether companies require a turnkey registration tool, conference or incentive travel planning, a strategically managed meetings solution or a once-in-a-lifetime event, BCD Meetings & Incentives’ team of experts offer a full continuum of services in MICE programmes, Strategic Meetings Management and Event Production Services.

Visitors to Stand 339 will also be able to gain greater insight and control over all aspects of corporate travel programme through the consulting and professional services of Advito.

Advito, excels where few consulting firms can deliver – providing unbiased advice from an independent consulting organisation with deep industry knowledge and close ties to a leading travel management company. Employing an integrated approach to travel management consulting, Advito optimises the critical components of a corporate travel programme and aligns them to business priorities – looking beyond direct costs to address the process by which clients link critical concerns like safety, productivity and traveller behavior to the overall organisational strategy.

On BCD Travel’s comprehensive presence at the Business Travel Show, Crowley comments: “Since the launch of BCD Travel, we have developed and continue to grow our organisation with the customer firmly in mind. At the same time we have also recognised the need to enhance our offering by diversifying into other travel related fields such as meetings & incentives and consulting in order to ensure these same customers are afforded those rare commodities: value, innovation and exceptional service. In an increasingly complex travel landscape we will continue to help simplify and streamline the business of travel.”

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BCD Travel will be present at the following BT Show education seminars:

Wednesday, 14 February, 11.45 – 13.00
Session C10
Torsten Kriedt, Senior Director, Global Practice Development, for Advito features in the Panel: ‘Total cost of travel – how to go after the big saving wins’

Thursday, 15 February, 10.15 – 11.30
Session D5
Chris Crowley, Director of Sales, BCD Travel moderates : ‘Dynamic Pricing – The Debate’