The second annual Business Travel News/Association of Corporate Travel Executives European benchmarking report builds on a baseline of data and provides a vivid snapshot of the travel buying and management habits of major corporations that each spend more than €20 million—and, in most cases, considerably more than that—annually on European-booked air travel alone. Sponsored in part by Travelport and ACTE.
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Europe's Largest Globalizing, Taking Longer TripsWith the average participating BTN/ACTE European company spending €53 million annually on air travel among its European operations in 2007, the pressure to find improved savings is intense.
After The Crash, Corporate Buyers' PerspectiveFour travel buyers—Mark Avery, U.K. head of business services for PricewaterhouseCoopers; Bernadette Basterfield, international head of travel for JP Morgan Chase Bank, based in the United Kingdom; Else Marie Madsen, travel manager for Lego, based in Denmark; and Peter Sijbers, director of senior sourcing for airlines and corporate card for Philips, based in the Netherlands—met Business Travel News editor-in-chief David Meyer and contributing editor Amon Cohen at the Association of Corporate Travel Executives global conference in Rome last month to discuss possible responses to tough economic times: cutting back travel, encouraging smarter booking and reevaluating supplier relationships.