We go beyond business at our annual Corporate Conference

On Saturday 22nd March, we hosted our annual Corporate Conference in Birmingham – with the theme of the day being ‘Going Beyond Business’.

Our corporate Travel Counsellors, support hub colleagues, and valued supplier partners descended on the Vox Hotel for an inspiring day of company updates, external keynote speaker sessions, talks from our headline sponsors, and of course, a celebration or two!

We were lucky enough to be joined by some incredible external speakers, including the first-ever female RAF jet pilot, Mandy Hickson, time management coach, Steve Watson, and branding expert, Alex Hunter.

Our headline sponsors, Travelport, Bedsonline and JetBlue also took to the stage to update our Travel Counsellors on their latest offerings for corporate clients.

We also heard from our Chief Technology Officer, Jon Bauer, who shared how we’re harnessing the power of AI to empower our independent business owners to go beyond for our corporate clients and further enhance the levels of service that they offer.

Steve Byrne, our CEO, echoed how we’re helping Travel Counsellors to grow their businesses while providing outstanding service to their clients, saying: “We’ve created the ability to service larger accounts through creating teams. So, you might have a Travel Counsellor who wins the account and then sets up a team to bring in other Travel Counsellors to help with the fulfilment. We’ve created the technology that enables them to do that really easily.

“Travel Counsellors can identify other Travel Counsellors who can help service the account, agree the commercial terms, and get full visibility of all the bookings taking place in that team. It enables people to play to their strengths. So, you may not be a natural networker, but you may be good at looking after customers when you’ve got the bookings.

This has been pivotal in helping people grow their business and increase their earnings. On average, earnings on corporate last year increased by 10%. We’re seeing particular growth in the sports, film, TV and creative sectors – anything that requires a tailored, attentive, high-touch, personalised service.”

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If you’re already working in corporate travel but want to make the move into setting up and running your own business or micro TMC, we offer the perfect platform for you to do just that. To get a feel for how we can help you unleash your potential, book onto one of our Discovery events – including our very special webinar series with Sara Davies or one of our TC Together ‘mini conferences’. We hope to see you at an event very soon.