Advantage Business Travel Conference: Next year’s location announced
The 2007 Advantage Business Travel Conference will be held in Zurich, sponsored by Star Alliance partners Lufthansa and Swiss airlines.
The event will take place on October 8-9 at the Swissotel Zurich Hotel, in the Zurich Oerlikon business district between the city centre and the airport.
The future of the consortium’s business travel conference had been uncertain after Advantage became part of the Triton group and combined its annual conference with Global and Worldchoice agents.
But director of business travel Norman Gage said due to Advantage’s strong business travel membership, and because the Triton conference was mainly focused on leisure agents, it has decided to go ahead with the break-away conference.
This week’s Advantage Business Travel conference in Amsterdam, sponsored by KLM, was attended by 250 delegates, 50 more than in 2005. Around half of the companies present were agents and the rest suppliers.
Due to its success, the consortium said it was now committed to holding future business travel conferences.
By Bev Fearis
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
Vegas’s Billion-Dollar Secrets – What They Don’t Want Tourists to Know
Visit Florida’s New CEO Bryan Griffin Shares His Vision for State Tourism with Graham
Chicago’s Tourism Renaissance: Graham Interviews Kristin Reynolds of Choose Chicago
Graham Talks with Cassandra McCauley of MMGY NextFactor About the Latest Industry Research
Destination International’s Andreas Weissenborn: Research, Advocacy, and Destination Impact
Graham and Don Welsh Discuss the Success of Destinations International’s Annual Conference
Graham and CEO Andre Kiwitz on Ventura Travel’s UK Move and Recruitment for the Role
Brett Laiken and Graham Discuss Florida’s Tourism Momentum and Global Appeal
Graham and Elliot Ferguson on Positioning DC as a Cultural and Inclusive Global Destination
Graham Talks to Fraser Last About His England-to-Ireland Trek for Mental Health Awareness
Kathy Nelson Tells Graham About the Honour of Hosting the World Cup and Kansas City’s Future
Graham McKenzie on Sir Richie Richardson’s Dual Passion for Golf and His Homeland, Antigua
ADS PRO 
Global tourism exceeds 1.5 billion travelers announces UN-Tourism
Qatar Airways offers reduced timetable to over 60 destinations
WTTC global tourism reached record economic impact of 11 trillion in 2025
Hands In, UATP join forces for airline multi-card payments
Overseas travelers to the United States declined by 2.5% in 2025