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Almost three-quarters of executives buying travel prefer a wide choice of flights, hotels and car hire firms to just one or two recommendations. And 73 per cent said issuing tickets within 24 hours was attractive, according to a survey of website customers to Internet business travel agency Equator-Net.
The Ministry of Defence’s Joint Services Command and Staff College, a private finance initiative contract, has been value for money, according to a report by the National Audit Office.
Channel tunnel operator Eurotunnel is taking French and British railway companies to court over non-payment of tunnel fees. The French company SNCF, passenger firm Eurostar and freight carrier English, Welsh & Scottish are withholding £15.3 million from this year’s payments of around £45 million, questioning Eurotunnel’s calculations.
Train companies are looking to cut the commission paid to travel agents in a similar move to that made by British Airways.
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The UK economy can look forward to a buoyant first year of the new millennium, predicted the Sunday Telegraph’s economics editor, Bill Jamieson.
An ambitious scheme to spread CIPS’s influence among unqualified purchasers was launched at the conference. The corporate partnership programme (CPP) will provide a mixture of certification, training and networking to large companies looking to ramp up their purchasing expertise.