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Budgeting for Business Abroad
Research from the ONS found that overseas business trips by UK residents fell by 22% last year as companies scaled back costs to try and overcome the recession. Despite ongoing efforts to minimise corporate trips, the simple fact remains that foreign travel is a staple part of the workings of many small businesses. Its role in establishing relations with international partners, gauging new markets for entry and meeting with remote workers based outside of the UK cannot be easily replaced. With this in mind, we’ve compiled some top tips on the best value deals and services available to help keep costs low while travelling and doing business abroad. read more
Twelve top tips for doing business in the Gulf
Be careful when selecting and managing local partners. Gulf Arabs are charming to the core. The idea of signing a strategic partnership or Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which is a regional favourite, with a foreign company is very appealing, and thus several less reputable Gulf-based companies will readily agree to become your local partner without necessarily thinking about your expectations of them and the drive to help and support you sell your products and services.read more
Climate Change and Eugenics
Eugenics is the study and practice of selective breeding applied to humans[/b], with the aim of improving the species (Wikipedia). At its pre-war height, the movement often pursued pseudoscientific notions of racial supremacy and purity. It was practiced around the world and was promoted by governments, and influential individuals and institutions.read more
Business Travel Holds Firm Despite Economic Conditions
In spite of the global economic slowdown, business travel seems to be holding up in Europe, and will do so for at least the next 12 months. That’s the overriding message from the results of a survey of 600 European business travellers, commissioned by the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) in association with Vanson Bourne. read more
Corporate Travel Outlook Weakest For Two Decades, Says Ascend
London, 29th April 2009 – A survey of frequent business travellers projects an overall drop in corporate air travel spend of 7.5% over the next 12 months, according to aerospace specialists Ascend (www.ascendworldwide.com). The poll found 52% who said their company’s air travel budget was set to drop significantly and 46% expected the number of flights taken would fall significantly. read more
Businesses Urged To Implement Smart Travel Plans
The National Business Travel network (NBTN), part of the government's ACT on CO2 campaign, is calling on businesses to implement smart travel plans for staff to cut costs and significantly reduce carbon emissions. read more
Taxing Time For UK Passengers
Commentators as diverse as BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh and a blogger called VintageKrug on the Business Traveller website are incensed at Chancellor Darling’s decision to raise, significantly, the level of Airline Passenger Duty to be charged from 1 November this year. read more
Business Travel Must Not Be On The Road To Nowhere
In this tough economic climate it’s understandable – and indeed necessary – for companies to take a long, hard look at operating costs and expenditures. Executives know only too well that a lean, agile business is better equipped to ride out a recession than one that is bloated. read more
Light Dues - Heavy Burden
PD Ports is calling on retailers and manufacturers as well as the wider logistics community to voice their opposition to the Government’s proposed hike in ‘light dues’ which will add significantly to the annual costs of goods passing through UK ports.read more
Baghdad Open For Business
The first British business delegation in over twenty years touched down in Iraq on Monday (6th April 2009). Business Secretary Lord Mandelson led the high level business delegation on a one day visit to the country. The delegation comprising 23 companies took opportunities to visit both Baghdad and Basra. read more
