Corporate Business Travel and MICE Congress 2018 was hosted by Eurasia Group in Shanghai Longement Hotel during June 20-21,2018 in Shanghai.

 

Eurasia is a global leader in political risk analysis, advisory and consulting. Their experts advise the world's leading business, investment, and government professionals to help them anticipate risk and shape strategic outcomes. 

 

Eurasia connects geopolitics with business to support their clients' long-term planning and organizational needs. Eurasia Group's in-depth consulting solutions help executive leaders assess business and investment environments, identify and anticipate sector outlooks, forecast change and future states, and detect key disruptive trends.

 

This is the 5th year of Eurasia hosting Corporate Business Travel and MICE Congress 2018,which is mainly focus on corporate buyers for business travel and MICE management. The meeting was hosted for 2 days attracting about 150 attendees.

 

Accompanied by the implementation of the new policy of going global in China’s “One Belt and One Road”, the popularization of "Internet +" technology and the application of new intelligent new technologies, Chinese companies’ business travel and MICE markets are growing rapidly. Five major trends. are gradually formed for mobile applications, data analysis, Automated operation, integrated integration, cost-saving. At the same time of some traditional methods have further developed, the new changes have also taken place in the technological sector. 

 

More requests from end-user companies needs to be delivered. The financial returns of business trips and incentive travel must be clearly measurable, the balance between company goals and traveler needs, the balance between the application of new technologies and the business reality needs to be balanced

 

This conference is presented in a modular format that more clearly reflects the specific needs of companies in their own incentive travel and corporate conference.

Well-known corporate speakers also targeted different business cases through five major sectors. The content explores specific solutions together.

 

The five topics for discussion in the conference:

1) Traditional and new cost control best practices

2) Application of new intelligent technologies

3) Corporate customized services

4) Safety and health management

5) Integrated Services

Alicia Yao, on behalf of SITE global delivered as speech on the topic "Changes, Innovations, and Trends in Global Travel and MICE Markets".

 

She started with a video about SITE and its training programs followed with a PPT on the topic of "Changes, Innovations, and Trends in Global Travel and MICE Markets" by the following key points:

1. Status of China Business Travel and MICE Management

2, the operation mode of the industry on Standardization management, Delicacy Management and Accreditation Management

3. The management of merging corporate meetings, events, and/or business trip 

4, Bleisure and TMC management

5. Science and technology visualizes the value of meeting management and business objectives management

6. Intelligent conference management and real-time data collection to effectively improve services and enhance experience of meetings and events

7, Brand New Technology from China - One World, One Sim

8, GDPR data protection for TMC and meeting incentive management

9, Evaluation specification of Conference, incentive and event service agency in China published by CCPIT

10, Compliance Management, Excellence in Service, Organizational Resilience, Sustainable Development the trend of China meeting incentive management 

 

She finished her presentation of the video promotion of SITE 2019 conference in Bangkok.

 

Alicia Yao also joined the afternoon penal discussion with other speakers from

At the Road TMC Company. SKHB, DKSH, Shenma Special Vehicle rental company participated in the topic and gave the onsite guests full sharing and answers. Their discussion topics are:

 

Topic 1: What are the best ways to control travel and incentive costs? What is special about the 2 different industries?

Topic 2: What problems do you have with current TMC and MICE service providers and what improvements do you hope to get?

Topic 3: What are the special service standards and service requirements for the corporate distinguished guests when it comes to land service including transportation?

Topic 4: The recent application of some new intelligent technologies in travel and incentive has triggered heated discussions among purchasers. What are your views on the application of these new technologies?

Topic 5: What is the personalized travel and MICE design and service that everyone has in mind? How should it be achieved?

The attendees comes from Procurement 37%, Indirect souring38%, Administration 9%, Travel Manager 4%, Finance 12%.

The professionalism and case studies of SITE as well as the trend of TMC and MICE development in China and the world analyzed by Alicia Yao really attract the attention of the audience and get a good feedback as well.

 

Attendees' satisfaction

43% vote for very satisfied, 36% vote for satisfied, 21% vote for general level.

 

Photos of the conference 

Photos of the sponsor booth

 

Advertising and Publicity

 

A Part of Attendees list

Air Canada 

Air Liquide 

Amorepacific 

Arkema (China) Investment Co.Ltd. 

Armstrong Building Products Co.,(SH) Ltd 

Armstrong World Industries (China) Ltd 

Autoliv (Shanghai) Management Co., Ltd 

Avis 

B&Q 

Bobst 

Brake Parts Inc- Asia Pacific Shanghai BPI Trading Co., Ltd 

Caixin Media Company Limited 

Carestream Health 

Carrefour China 

Celanese(China) Holding Co., Ltd. 

CHINA TRAVEL SERVICE HEAD OFFICE (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD. 

COMFORT INTERNATIONAL M.I.C.E. SERVICE CO.,LTD. 

Corning 

CPPA 

DB Schenker 

DBS Bank China 

Delphi Technologies 

Demag Crane 

DFS GROUP 

Diebold Nixdorf 

DKSH(China) Co., Ltd 

Doehler 

Eaton 

Edelman Group 

Evonik (Shanghai) Investment Management Co., Ltd. 

FANCL 

Ferring 

Flow VHP Waterjet Technology (Shanghai) co. ltd 

 

Formica 

Fuji Xerox 

GE 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. 

GSK 

Hegii 

Herbalife (China) Health Products Ltd. 

Hertz 

Hong Kong Tourism Board 

HUNTSMAN 

INVISTA Management(Shanghai) Co., Ltd. 

IQVIA 

ISS China 

Jiangling Motors Corporation 

Li Ning Sports(Shanghai) Co., Ltd 

Luye Pharma Group Ltd. 

M&C China 

Mary Kay 

MICE Committee of China Association of Travel Services 

Michelin (China) Investment Co., Ltd. 

MuseLab 

Nielsen 

Nippon Paint 

Novus International 

NU SKIN 

Parker Hannifin 

Pernod Ricard 

Quaker Chemical 

Roche Diagnostics (Shanghai) Limited 

Sephora 

 

SITE 

SKF China 

SKHB 

Stryker (Beijing) Healthcare Products Co., Ltd. 

Swatch Group 

Syngenta 

Taxback International 

Terex Corporation 

The Sherwin-Williams Company 

Thermo Fisher Scientific 

TRAVEL WEEKLY CHINA 

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions(China) Co., Ltd. 

Trumpf 

Tyson 

Veolia 

Wyeth 

Zimmer Biomet 

Zimmer Biomet Asia Operation Office 

Huang Bao Che

Cloud Helios

Comfort Travel MICE Company Shanghai Branch 

Meadin.com 

Pinchain.com

Shanghai Leadtour Tourism Services Management

Shenzhen New Vision MICE Company Shanghai branch

Shenma Special Vehicle rental company

Joyfull Journey VIP Lounge Card company 

At the Road TMC company

 

SITE will be more active in China supporting with all the professional meetings and events of the MICE industry and welcome more SITE members from China.