For the corporate travel and meetings industry FLYING INTO TURBULENCE
LOVE IT OR loathe our new coalition government, its decision to scrap a third runway at Heathrow Airport has enormous commercial implications to UK plc, let alone the airport itself. Three interested parties voice their concerns for the future of
Heathrow in the Debate on page 18. Greater carbon emissions was part of the government’s decision not to
expand Heathrow and it seems that the international aviation industry’s targets of carbon neutral growth by 2020 and carbon free flight by 2050 is unrealistic, according to the Green Watch on page 46. One technology racing ahead with no such difficulties is virtual meetings technology. It’s been a long time coming but videoconferencing has finally made the grade in terms of audio and image quality, helped in no small part by the economic downturn. Read all about it on page 30. Construction company Carillion is no stranger to virtual meetings and has made huge strides reducing travel to internal meetings in this way as part of an overall fiscal belt-tightening programme. Read about travel manager Angela Smith’s achievements on page 6. Holding their own, just, in the current economic climate are UK independent hotels. With price often the only differentiating factor we debate their future on page 22. The latest airline product developments and just what they mean to the corporate community are detailed from page 52, while Cheltenham, Doha, Lisbon and Latin America feature in our varied Departures section. Our annual event, The Business Travel Conference, is getting very close now – check out the website for the latest speaker line-up and all the hot topics to be debated at the London Novotel West on October 25-26th. And in order to report on all the news from TBTC, the November/December issue will be out just a little later than normal.
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Mike Swindell TECHNOLOGY EDITOR Mike is a veteran of the travel industry, specialising in business travel, trade technology and aviation. He has been features editor of Travel Trade Gazette and deputy editor of Airline World.
Tom Hall WRITER Tom writes and talks about travel for, among others, The Observer, BBC Breakfast and Lonely Planet. He specialises in current affairs, consumer advice and environmental and digital issues.
Linda Fox JOURNALIST Linda has worked as a freelance travel writer for over three years and prior to that spent seven years covering the hotels and technology sectors for Travel Trade Gazette.
Colin Ellson JOURNALIST Colin is a highly experienced travel journalist, specialising in the aviation sector and the Middle East. Before venturing into the travel sector, Colin was an award-winning journalist on the TV Times.
Beverley Fearis
JOURNALIST During 15 years of travel journalism Beverley has seen a fair slice of the world. She writes for, among others, The Observer, The Times, The Evening Standard, Travel Weekly and Travelmole.
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