The SCIENCE is technology driven. Technology’s rapid changes, and the challenges it presents, makes a multi-purpose single portal critical to successful adoption and use of that technology within any organization. The ART is the services provided by PROFESSIONALS. The Artist is your Travel Management Company and how its people assist clients who are on the road or in need of special services.

Chris Nicholas, Vice President
Corporate Travel

Welcome to CI Travel's 3rd Annual Business Seminar!
Boardrooms everywhere are buzzing with and struggling with how their company can get a better ROI on their travel investment. Nowhere is there a shortage of opinions on how to accomplish their goals. What's lacking is the data and knowledge to make smarter decisions. How can we decrease costs without having deleterious effects on our travelers? Can we improve our processes, lower our costs and ensure our travelers comply with corporate policy without mandates?

The answer is, yes, you can. This year’s CI Travel Business Travel Seminar show you how with a focus on end-to-end travel solutions coupled with the personalized services you can expect from CI Travel's Professional Consultants. From trip planning, through the booking and travel experience, all the way through to expense reporting, you will discover ways to improve efficiencies and decrease your costs - guaranteed.

Join us on April 22. You will be delighted!

• Are you still using paper expense reporting systems? Online systems can cut your processing costs by 35% and improve your reimbursement procedures. Plus – travel costs can automatically download into the system.
• How online travel platforms used in conjunction with traditional services cuts your travel investment by more than 20% - guaranteed.
• Airline Fees – unbundling or unraveling – how will you handle them?
• How to capture and manage data on the 50%, or more, of your T&E spending that isn’t air/hotel/car.
• How to improve corporate travel policy compliance without mandates.
• How to measure the success of your travel program.
• How to change behavior with company travelers that will result in lower costs for the company.
• Strategies for improving the ROI on your company meetings and employee incentive programs.
• Learn which benchmarking tools best fit your business model and how to use them.
• Meet the travel consultants who care for your travelers while they are on the road.
• How to handle true travel emergencies.

• General Session: The Art & Science of Business Travel
  Presenter: Chris Nicholas, VP of Sales - CI Travel
  Where we are, how we got here and where’s the business going.
• Evolution & Revolution of Online Solutions Platforms in Travel Management
  Presenters: Mike Daly, VP Travel Services - Rearden Commerce and Chris Nicholas, VP
  of Sales - CI Travel
  How online service solutions platforms can lower your cost, increase your ROI, double your efficiencies and empower your travelers with mobile applications.
• Panel Discussion Featuring Industry Leaders in Travel Management
  5 Experts from the travel sector answer questions and take your questions on what’s coming to
  travel management.
• CI Travel Service Updates including Management Reports, Meetings and Incentives
  Presenters: Oneal Wiggins & Rebecca Moniot, Account Executives; Valerie Rauh, Manager, Corporate Meetings & Incentives - CI Travel
  Catch up on ALL the new technology, people and processes at CI Travel. Meet your CI Corporate Travel Consultants.
• Lunch Time Prentation: Bring Order, Efficiency & Cost Reduction to Your Business
  Guest Speaker: Marie Floria, Business Development Manager - ExpenseWire
  Decrease Your Costs, Eliminate Mistakes, Create Time and Simplify Your Expense Accounting

Exhibitors:
ExpenseWire • Rearden Commerce • Cisco • American Express Vacations • Norfolk International Airport • Avis Car Rental • Budget Car Rental • Carey Transportation • Enterprise / National Car Rental • Royal Caribbean International • Norfolk Waterside Marriott Hyatt Place - Greenbrier • Marriott - Chesapeake • Staybridge Suites - Charleston • Sheraton Waterside • Sheraton Hotel - Roanoke • Homewood Suites - Virginia Beach • Best Western International • Best Western Seven Seas – San Diego • LTD Hotel Manangement • United Air Lines • Lufthansa Air Lines

Special Thanks to Our Sponsors:
Enterprise Holdings • ExpenseWire • Rearden Commerce

Accommodation, Transportation & Parking Information:

Hotel Accommodations:
A block of rooms is held for April 21 at a special rate of $109 for city view or water view, single or double occupancy. To reserve a room at these special rates, identify yourself as attending the CI Travel Seminar. Please make your request by April 5, 2009.

Parking Information: Please park in the Bank of Hampton Roads Parking Garage adjacent to the Bank Building near the Sheraton. $5 parking vouchers will be available at Registration Check-In.

There are three, 50-minute sessions. Attendees will be divided into three groups which will be systematically rotated through the seminars. Group and lunch seating assignments will be in your registration packet. The goals of these breakout sessions are to provide the attendees a smaller setting where they can more easily learn from the presenters and ask questions pertaining to their own corporate travel.