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BUSINESS TRAVEL & MEETINGS SHOW 2011 ANNOUNCES INNOVATION AWARD WINNERS
February 08, 2011
8 February 2011: The Business Travel & Meetings Show has announced this year’s Innovation Award winners. The awards are being presented today at the show, which takes place 8-9 February 2011 at Earls Court in London. The Gold Award winner – which is the entry that receives the most judges’ votes overall - will be unveiled this evening at the BTMS exhibitor party.
Accommodation Category: HRG Hotel Audit Consultant
A new service to provide corporate with even greater savings on their accommodation spend. In 2010, HRG saved one large multinational banking client savings of over £110,000 in one market.
CSR Category: Travel Angel – Traveller Safety e-Learning Course
Launched in February 2010, Travel Angel is a unique groundbreaking e-learning course designed to reduce corporate and traveller exposure to risk through education and awareness training prior to travel. Applicable to business travellers worldwide, Travel Angel is now the industry leader.
Business Travel Management & Intermediaries : SIMPLY HRG
SIMPLY HRG gives clients the ability to make cost savings and take control of their business travel spend by using HRG UK’s buying power to access great fares and rates.
SMM Suppliers and Meetings & Events Intermediaries: Cvent Supplier Network
The Cvent Supplier Network (CSN) is a free, web-based sourcing tool that allows meeting planners to search detailed profiles of over 120,000 venues worldwide, send Requests for Proposals (RFPs) and compare bids with side-by-side reports. With CSN, planners can quickly and easily make “apples to apples” comparisons of meeting venues, leverage multiple quotes for the best deals and drastically cut costs.
Technology for Travel & Meetings: Sabre Red Workspace
Red Workspace offers unprecedented control to agency customers to ensure users are achieving maximum efficiency in their workflow by allowing for role based workflows. This technology will also enable customers to bring in proprietary applications to the Red Workspace through smart, valuable integration.
Transport: Streetcar for Business
Streetcar for Business provides employees with fast, easy access to a network of low-carbon vehicles parked across London, Edinburgh, Bristol and seven other UK cities. Employees have 24-hour on-demand access to over 1,500 Streetcar vehicles in more than 1,000 locations, providing a simple, convenient, walk-up-and-go alternative to pool cars, private mileage, car rental and taxi reimbursement. Whether you need one car or twenty, morning or afternoon, every day or every now and then, Streetcar fits the bill.
Traveller Services: No1 Traveller - Driveway to Runway
No.1 Traveller is the first and only company to provide all travellers with a premium service from Driveway to Runway. Whatever the reason for travelling No I Traveller collects guests from their offices, hotel or home anywhere in the UK in their chauffeur-driven Mercedes-Benz vehicles, fast track them through security and then wait on them in their designer airport lounges.
“Congratulations to all of this year’s winners – they have responded to the biggest, most pressing issues facing travel managers in the industry today to create seven truly innovative products and services: from cost cutting, to SMMP, from traveller safety to duty of care,” said David Chapple, event director, Business Travel & Meetings Show.
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About Business Travel & Meetings Show:
The Business Travel & Meetings Show is the number one dedicated event for suppliers of business travel and meetings products and services to showcase their latest offerings to buyers in Europe and the leading event for anyone who buys or manages company travel, books business trips and sources meeting venues. The Business Travel & Meetings Show takes place 8-9 February 2011 at Earls Court 2 in London. For more information and free registration please visit www.businesstravelshow.com
