About our Partners & Sponsors
Accor is the world’s largest and fastest growing hotel company, providing the Association Industry with access to more than 4,000 hotels and resorts across 90 different countries.
As Australia’s premier hotel operator, Accor is the only international hotel group to offer the industry accommodation solutions in every state and territory, including prime city, business and popular holiday destinations.
Offering a choice of budget hotels through to luxury resort options, the network includes Sofitel Luxury Hotels in the upper upscale hotel sector alongside economy brands Novotel, Grand Mercure, Mercure, All Seasons, Ibis, and Formule 1 brands for maximum choice and flexibility.
In the past twelve months the group has welcomed two new hotel brands, the five-star corporate focussed brand Pullman, and M Gallery.
Accor not only leads, but innovates when it comes to accommodation, meetings, incentive, conferencing and special events. For more information visit www.accorhotels.com.au
Carlson Wagonlit Travel (CWT) is a global leader specialising in business travel management.
CWT is dedicated to helping companies of all sizes, as well as government institutions and nongovernmental organisations, optimise their travel programme and provide best-in-class service and assistance to travellers.
By leveraging the talents and know-how of its people and providing leading-edge technology, CWT helps clients around the world drive savings while delivering service and enhancing security and sustainability.
From convenient city locations to coastal and country regional centre’s, Constellation Hotels is designed to meet your business travel needs. Our goal is to provide personal service, conveniently located hotels with business and meeting facilities, and great value for money. With an incredible choice of destinations, the Grand Chifley, Chifley, Country Comfort, Australis and Sundowner hotels are found in more than 60 locations across Australia and New Zealand, you will enjoy the warm hospitality Constellation Hotels are renowned for. Come and meet one of our specialist Account Managers to discuss your company’s accommodation needs. Join our Escape Club program to earn Escape Dollars that can be used like cash in our hotels, plus we also include a bear, wine or selected beverage when members dine with us and offer a range of exclusive member discounts. Visit www.escapeclub.com.au to become a member and join for FREE today.
conTgo’s vision is to provide instant access to relevant information and services anytime, anywhere from any mobile device.
conTgo’s mobility platform is creating significant value for corporate travel programs and now includes products such as the Mobile Travel Assistant (MTA), Mobile Meeting Assistant (MAA), Travel Order Manager (TOM), Mobile Value Voucher (MVV) and Travel Data Warehouse (TDW).
MTA has now been in use for over two years, in 20+ countries, with 175,000 travellers using the solution across 4,000 companies. In 2009 over 500,000 travel bookings were processed by MTA. Companies using MTA improve the experience of the traveller, decrease travel program costs and optimise traveller security.
conTgo was a nominee in the 2010 Global Mobile Awards.
Egencia is the fifth largest travel management company in the world. As part of Expedia, Inc., (NASDAQ: EXPE), the world's largest travel marketplace, Egencia helps business get ahead by offering the only truly integrated corporate travel service. Egencia's industry expertise helps drive results that matter, delivering meaningful advancements that have a real impact. By combining a powerful offline and online service, Egencia delivers a complete corporate travel offering supported by global market expertise and a best-in-class technology platform.
Egencia delivers fully localized service and content combined with Egencia's innovative suite of online booking and global reporting tools to companies throughout the US, Canada, Australia, India, China and Europe (UK, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Switzerland and Belgium.)
QBT is a leading, independent travel management company and is a member of the Jetset Travelworld Group (JTG), one of Australia’s largest integrated travel businesses.
We have been helping customers manage their travel costs for more than thirty years across corporate, sporting and entertainment and government sectors.
Our team have an average of 10 years’ experience with a leading reputation for service excellence which was formally recognised at the 2009 International Customer Service Professionals awards.
A $4million investment in QBT’s technology has delivered reporting that enables real savings to be identified and tracked, two online tools (Amadeus e-Travel Management and SERKO Online) and a new payment gateway delivering enhanced data reporting on all cards. At the same time we have expanded our product range to deliver full hotel and other procurement programs, VIP services and mobile phone based travel services including emergency contact capability.
Quest has become the largest and most successful provider of serviced apartments in Australasia, now operating more than 125 properties across Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. In 1988, Quest Chairman, Paul Constantinou, identified the need for a new accommodation offering that specialised in meeting the unique needs of extended-stay business travellers. As a result, Quest Serviced Apartments opened its first property in Melbourne and has been offering ‘home-away-from-home’ accommodation to the global mobile workforce ever since.
Each Quest property offers stylish, well appointed and spacious apartments with separate bedrooms and living areas, fully equipped kitchen, additional amenities and high service standards. An assortment of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments are available to suit travelling groups of all sizes. As Quest franchisees own and operate each business, they also take personal pride in supporting and befriending guests in need. These are all necessary ingredients to ensuring that a guest’s accommodation feels like home.
Quest properties are always conveniently located in central business districts, suburban and key regional areas with close proximity to head offices, business centres and cultural attractions. Quest prides itself on providing flexible accommodation that allows guests to work or relax in complete comfort.
Each Quest property offers stylish, well appointed and spacious apartments with separate bedrooms and living areas, fully equipped kitchen, additional amenities and high service standards. An assortment of studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments are available to suit travelling groups of all sizes. As Quest franchisees own and operate each business, they also take personal pride in supporting and befriending guests in need. These are all necessary ingredients to ensuring that a guest’s accommodation feels like home.
Quest properties are always conveniently located in central business districts, suburban and key regional areas with close proximity to head offices, business centres and cultural attractions. Quest prides itself on providing flexible accommodation that allows guests to work or relax in complete comfort.
Sabre is the leading provider of technology, distribution and marketing services to the travel industry. Sabre Pacific provides travel management companies and corporations with the most comprehensive end to end travel solutions, at the core of which is the best travel product selection.
Recognized for sophisticated reporting tools and meeting the complex needs of unique local markets, Sabre Pacific offers a competitive advantage for TMCs who engage their suite of services, and peace of mind through efficiency and cost control for corporate travel managers.
Driven by a commitment to provide products and services that add value, increase profit and decrease costs, Sabre Pacific’s local development and support teams keep clients at the forefront of the ever changing landscape of travel management.
Visa Commercial — including Visa Purchasing, Visa Corporate and Visa Business— enable small businesses, multinational companies, medium-to-large enterprises and government entities to streamline their payment processes, manage information and their supply chain and reduce their administrative costs. Visa Commercial platforms and services are backed by Visa’s global acceptance infrastructure and underpinned by the power of our centralised and integrated processing network. Visa operates the world’s largest retail electronic payments network providing processing services and payment product platforms. Visa enjoys unsurpassed acceptance around the world and Visa/PLUS is one of the world's largest global ATM networks, offering cash access in local currency in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. For more information, visit www.visa.com.au
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Solutions for your company
Qantas is Australia’s largest airline and recognised as the ‘world’s most experienced airline’ providing all the benefits of full-service airline – global network, Frequent Flyer program and airport lounges.
Flexible Fares
Qantas offers Flexi- Saver/ Fully Flexible fares ensuring if your meeting changes your flight can too.
Discount Programs
Available for all sized corporate accounts.
New Product
Qantas will offer in-flight connectivity late 2009 on selected domestic flights allowing you to make and receive e-mails/SMS messages.
oneworld Alliance
Comprises some of the world’s leading airlines, offering services to 700 destinations in 150 countries with 9,000 flights daily.
