LACTE 2012 - Sessões Educacionais

LACTE will feature a total of 9 Educational Sessions that will be conducted in English and Portuguese. There will be 3 sessions at a time going on simultaneously. At the registration, the participant must choose those ones he would like to attend.

There will be one exclusive session for clients (travel & events managers).

The sessions will address current and controversial issues, showing trends of national and international markets that will be presented and discussed, in a practical and dynamic way, by highly qualified professionals from the corporate travel, events and technology industries.

Segunda,
Fevereiro, 06th Terça,
Fevereiro, 07th

11:20 AM - 12:40 PM Educational Sessions

1 A - BVOM, what on earth is this?

Business Value of Meetings - BVOM This is the new contribution to the Return on Investment - ROI. What are the differences, similarities, worthiness, who applies them? During this session survey results performed by the Association Insights and MPI in 215 world companies, will be presented.

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1 B – Management without a border line - learn more on travel management in Latin America

Managers and suppliers with experience in regional management will give details of the necessities, specific characteristics of some countries and actual scenario regarding travel policies, OBT, payment terms, service fragmentation, negotiation with suppliers, TMC services, travelers expectations, and much more.

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1 C -MOBILE TECHNOLOGY: Trends and Developments Impacting Corporate Travel and Events

87% of the World Population, That's the Number of Total Mobile Subscribers around the World at the end of 2011

33% of Frequent Travelers used their Smart Phones to book trips

With that said, there are still only a small percentage of corporations and organizations that as of yet have taken full advantage of the many benefits that Mobile Technology can provide, related to Meetings, Events and Travel. In preparation for this interactive session, make sure you have registered using the NETWORK feature of the "LACTE 2012" Mobile App and have your Smart Phone charged and ready.

Some of the Topics to be covered include:

-Top Things to think of when developing a Mobile App for your Meetings and Events

-Mobile Technology - "Taking the Stress out of Traveling"

-How Leading Edge Mobile Apps Development Might Impact Travelers (Negatively)
- Travel Managers Favorite Apps

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5:00 PM - 6:20 PM Educational sessions

2A - Are You Ready to Experiment with Social Networking Tools?

Travel professionals are closely watching social media trends, but only a few travel programs are actively experimenting so far. This session will highlight actual examples from companies, who are leading the way, demonstrate the impact these tools can have, and offer suggestions for you to take your first steps.

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2B - Premium class travellers – What do they expect?

This session will present a survey sponsored by Boeing, that shows the criteria that motivates the Premium Business class travellers to choose this cabin. Along with the travelling political restrictions, learn all about the other factors that may influence their ticket purchasing: comfort, services, meals, entertainment, etc

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2C - The importance of "subproducts in events"

More than ever organization of events is focused on the site and air fare for they represent the highest cost of the event. Nevertheless, there are important items that cannot be neglected. Can you imagine if the event A&V equipment fails, if the speaker transfer is missed or if one of the participant gets sick, etc.? Join this session and learn what to do so that these items have the same relevance for the client upon organizing and negotiating the event.

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10:00 AM - 11:20 AM Educational Sessions

3A - High occupancy in hotels and floating rates: challenge or opportunity?

The scenario is different, high occupancies have changed negotiations; clients and suppliers search for a new partnership model. Price is not any more the most important item in the scorecard, availability has now a relevant role. This session will tackle impacts of this new scenario on the travel program, the TMC services, final delivery to the corporate traveler and how to present savings.

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3B - The future of Travel Policy

This session will be totally interactive, participants, clients and suppliers will have an opportunity to discuss important and controversial topics, orienting the future of the travel policy, one of the most important landmark of the travel management of a company. What is the ideal model for travel policies? Mandatory or recommended? What are the perspectives of the future travel policies? Technology or Hybrid? Your company policies are adequate to attend travelers with regards new available services (ancillary fees)? How to communicate travel policies and make sure it will be followed? How can negotiations with suppliers affect the travel policies?

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3C - Challenges and expectations of professional travel and event Y

Young professionals, fast, eager for innovation, accustomed to multitasking and fully familiar with technological resources, seeking ambitious career and salaries quickly. If faced with challenges especially in large corporations, by the way they communicate with their superiors and peers, the implementation of a new management model. Join and see how the client, suppliers and the TMC this generation see this industry, the relationship between the company travel policy x, Y x travelers and service expectations.

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