Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 30, 2020
The health and wellness of corporate travellers has always been important, as it directly affects their performance. Oz Desai (pictured), General Manager Flight Centre Business Travel (FCBT), says, “If your traveller is feeling unhappy or burned...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 28, 2020
Due to lockdown, many companies have transitioned to remote working and teams with the support of tools like Zoom, Trello and G-Suite. This has left people wondering if remote working is here to stay. The Economist has predicted this is the end of...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 25, 2020
To all the fence-sitters out there… The SA Events Council is an industry-wide coalition which unites 13 event-industry-related Associations with a unified voice. It comprises the broader events industry from conference, exhibition and events...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 25, 2020
VOK DAMS is one of the leading agencies worldwide for events and live marketing. It has been quick to pivot from almost exclusively live events to exclusively virtual ones, with the outlook that events will increasingly become hybrid. A recent...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 24, 2020
Tiisetso Tau is the MD at Syngery Business Events. In this edition to the AAXO (African Association of Exhibition Organisers) Agile Leadership series, Tiisetso talks about how he got into the industry and what Agile Leadership looks like to him....
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 20, 2020
Q. I keep hearing about force majeure. What must I do to be covered by it? A: It should be noted at the outset you cannot rely on force majeure (‘FM’) unless you have a clause to that effect in your Terms and Conditions. If that is...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 19, 2020
With the pandemic-driven surge in online events, it helps to be able to use the right terminology. Here is a quick breakdown of four different types of virtual events and what functionality they offer. Webcast A webcast is a one-way broadcast to an...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 11, 2020
Women make over 80% of all travel decisions and are the fastest growing segment of business travellers. For these reasons, Oz Desai, General Manager of Flight Centre Business Travel (FCBT), believes that travel management companies (TMCs) need to...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 9, 2020
Q: How should I deal with the issue of the Consumer Protection Act, Act# 68/2008 (‘the CPA’) the Protection of Personal Information Act, Act #4/2013 (‘POPI’/’POPIA’)? A: The CPA has been around for ten years....
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 9, 2020
Vancouver-based Shawna McKinley has been described as an event sustainability solutionary. She spoke on the ‘Future of Sustainability’ at the Event Manager Blog’s virtual conference ‘The Future of the Event Industry’ on 31 July 2020, where she...
Shanna Jacobsen | Aug 4, 2020
Corporate Traveller has put together an expert travel guide to assist travel managers and bookers in evaluating how and when their clients can safely get back to business and resume travelling. The guide is the second release Corporate Traveller...
Louis Nel | Aug 4, 2020
Q. I work for a Public Benefit Organisation (PBO), and was able to book a free venue for an educational event we were hosting. However, the venue failed to secure our booking correctly and double booked us. The result was we had to cancel our event...
