On March the 20th Moscow Hilton Leningradskaya Hotel hosted the first educational seminar for hoteliers «Sales in the hotel industry: search of new clients» organized by ABT. Its participants included hotel industry representatives from Moscow, Tyumen, the Tver region and the Nizhni Novgorod region. The speaker of the meeting was Irina Bosshard, Director of Business and Conference Hotel Attestation program. She spoke about the main directions of search for prospective clients, ways of obtaining information about them and setting priorities in the process of work to increase sales.

Russian Association of Business Travel (ABT), a corporate travel buyer driven association actively promoting the development of business travel environment in Russia and the CIS, conducted the regular Educational session.

Due to a constant increase in the number of ABT projects as well as in the number of companies participating in this largest association of corporate travel buyers, ABT has taken a strategic decision to establish an Expert Panel — a consultative body, which provides consultations and informational support for ABT activities.

On February 28th, 2013 in Moscow Sheraton Palace hotel the 10th anniversary «Administrative Directors Forum» was held; its organizers were Russian Association of Business Travel (ABT) and AHConferences.