The Raphide approach is characterised by transparency, simplicity, independence and applicability, sustainable basic for Business Critical Business Tripsl
In Raphide a Traveller creates a Travel dossier
- For which division
- For which business unit
- Trip reason - internal meeting - customer visit - conference
- Traveller uploads Meeting schedule, invitations and relevant files
- Traveller adds extra information
Business Critical Business Trips
- Sales and Client meetings when personal contact adds value - new business is hard to replicate digitally
- Manufacturers will struggle to monitor remotely factories in farflung corners of their supply chain
- Trade shows and conferences
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Future of Business Travel
Low level internal meetings will migrate permanently to the online world, Zoom, Google Hangouts, Skype and other video conferencing services have a good change of permanently replace a percentage of companies business trips for several reasons.
- Companies badly hit by COVID-19 will be under pressure to cut costs and travel is an easy target
- Blizzard of pledges to cut carbon emissions and hit climate change targets, make cutting flying low hanging fruit
- Vaccins may reopen borders to travellers but large firms will be reluctant to sanction trips not strictly required
- Length of the trip will increase - combining trips will be the new normal