TBTC'09 featured a range of seminars covering all the key subjects including duty of care and looking after your travellers, negotiating contracts and deals, sustainable travel, best travel practice including looking business travel policies, booking tools, alternatives to travel, corporate manslaughter update, meetings and event management, expense management and travel policy compliance.
Theme - Close Encounters
Never has it been so important for buyers and suppliers to forge partnerships and build lasting relationships
Sunday 24th October
7.45pm Early Arrivals Reception.
Monday 25th October
7am onwards
Breakfast in the Novotel restaurant for delegates who arrived Sunday evening.
8.30am–9.45am
Welcome croissants, delegate registration and Exhibition open.
9.45am–10.00am
Welcome, conference objectives and how to make the most of TBTC’10.
10am–11am Conference Session 1: Straight to Business – Negotiations and managing supplier relationships
At a time when capacity and availability is a huge issue, we debate how to successfully negotiate, access your deals and manage robust and long-term business relationships and real partnerships.
11am–12pm
Networking and refreshments in the Exhibition zone.
12pm–1.00pm Conference Session 2:Cost Cutting - No Travel Strategies and Alternatives to Travel Find out how to shave the bottom line by changing policy, reining in maverick travellers and making use of new technology. This session will include a see-it-for-yourself live demo of a Video Conferencing system.
1pm–2.15pm
Lunch in the Exhibition zone.
2.15pm–3.15pm Conference Session 3:Meetings Management – Tackling the last frontier of un-managed travel Bundling M&E spend with transient can work to leverage better deals from suppliers. TBTC explores the software that can manage internal and external space and the strategies that can generate massive savings.
3.15pm–4pm
Networking and refreshments in the Exhibition zone.
4pm–5pm Conference Session 4: Has the green bubble burst? Bring green issues off the back burner and find out how to prioritise green issues during the recession and make it generate incremental income.
5pm–6.15pm
Free time. An opportunity to change ready for the TBTC’10 dinner reception and party.
6.15pm–7.15pm
Pre-dinner drinks.
7.30pm until late
Seated dinner with entertainment.
Tuesday 26th October
7am onwards
Breakfast in the Novotel restaurant for delegates who stayed on Monday night.
9.30am–10.15am Workshop 1:
Traveller Tracking and Safety Workshop 2: RFPs – Effectively managing Requests for Proposals
10.30am–11.15am
Networking and refreshments in the Exhibition zone.
12.15pm-1pm Workshop 5:
Managing Data – MI and Expenses made simple Workshop 6: TMCs vs HBAs – how to choose who’s right for you
1pm–2pm
Lunch in the Exhibition zone.
2pm-2.45pm Conference Session 5:Self Booking Tools – do they represent good value?
Learn whether an SBT is right for you and how to implement a Self Booking Tool and improve policy compliance.
2.45pm–3.30pm
Networking and refreshments in the Exhibition zone.
