ABT-ACTE Russia News
Another Educational session of the Russian Association of Business Travel devoted to the role of a travel manager in the process of business trip arrangement took place in Hilton Moscow Leningradskaya on October 11, 2013.
On October
HRS, which offers hotel and restaurant management systems and is the leader in the software market for the hospitality sector in Russia, the CIS and Baltic states, invited its partners to two milestone events: Tbilisi office anniversary and the traditional party «HRS and its friends» that took place in Tbilisi. The Russian Association of Business Travel was the sponsor of these events.
Starting from June 1st, Aeroflot has set the new size of basic agent commission — 4%, making it universal for all service classes. It bears reminding that earlier the carrier’s agent partners got 7% for economy class and 9% for business class sales. Experts forecast that in the foreseeable future all large Russian air market players will cut on agent commission significantly and then eliminate it altogether.
On September 27th, the Moscow Garden Ring hotel hosted «Commission Cut» panel discussion, which was organized by the editorial office of Buying Business Travel Russia electronic magazine with the informational support of the Russian Association of Business Travel. The participants were many Russian and foreign experts, including Aeroflot, Air Berlin and Turkish Airlines representatives, various travel agencies and lead TMCs — Aero Club, Continent Express, HRG, ZCTS-Egencia Russia and corporate buyers — a total of more than 50 participants. The meeting was moderated by Winfried Barczaitis, independent consultant.
Another «Travel manager» educational program of the Russian Association of Business Travel ended on September, 24th. 28 academic hours were devoted to getting acquainted with the latest knowledge and experience in the business travel industry, to curious case studies, as well as to new information management systems and business process optimization.
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