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Executive Edge Platform

Business-Class.com has launched an all-in-one platform that is revolutionizing executive travel, from instant booking through stress-free arrival.

The Executive Edge Platform is Business-Class.com’s exclusive , easy-to-use software specifically designed to enhance the efficiency of procurement teams and executive assistants. This state-of-the-art software offers a seamless booking experience at highly discounted rates for businesses engaged in international travel.

A fully integrated system, the Executive Edge facilitates securing airfare, hotels, and ground transportation services, as well as receipt capture, expense management, and reimbursements.

The Executive Edge is an invaluable tool delivering unparalleled control over every aspect of business travel.

Securing flights has never been so easy. With the Executive Edge, businesses can choose from an unrivaled volume of flight options at incredible savings.

• Real Time booking engine
• UP to 50% savings on Premium Economy, Business and First Class flights
• Exclusive access to unpublished flights
• Last minute bookings and changes
• 24/7 Support with 16 languages spoken
• Corporate Travel Policy, Risk Management, Expense Reporting

Ensure your executives receive the best night’s sleep available and every comfort possible while representing your business.

• Free room upgrades upon availability
• Complimentary breakfast for two daily
• Early check-in and late check-out upon availability
• VIP amenities valued at $100 USD
• Complimentary Wi-Fi
• Competitive rates

Ground transportation

Arranging ground transport in a foreign country can prove challenging - until now. The Executive Edge offers a variety of fully secure options and even puts you directly in touch with professional drivers, allowing for last-minute changes.

• Global, fully managed car ground transportation service
• Real time chauffeur booking capability
• Meet and greet at arrival gate
• Black car or business van available, depending on number of travelers
• SMS messaging with driver
• Armed security option for high risk areas

Vip services

Provide your executives a smoother, stress-free experience from the moment of departure to their arrival at the door.

• Meet & greet at the airplane door
• Ride comfortably past immigration
• Bypass airport lines
• Contact concierge by sms or phone 24/7
• Dedicated porter service

Expense tracking

Gain visibility and control of company travel expenses - and so much more

• 100% secure
• Convenient receipt upload capability
• Review budgets and policies, view analytics, generate reports
• Approve and transfer reimbursements instantly

You take care of business. We’ll take care of the rest.

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CT Connections expands group in new merger

CT Connections has added leisure travel management firm Executive Edge Travel to its portfolio under the CTC Travel Group’s umbrella.

“We’re all looking forward to spreading our wings to create one of Australia’s largest independently owned travel companies with over 110 staff in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth,” CT Connections Director Gary Reichenberg said.

Executive Edge Travel co-founder Yvonne Verstandig said:“Both Executive Edge and CT Connections are family orientated, ‘values based’ businesses – a perfect match in that we are very clear in what we deliver to each and every stakeholder.”

According to CT Connections, clients are set to gain from the move by utilising more resources, shared cutting-edge technology, increased buying power and, ultimately, enhanced value to customers.

Executive Edge Travel www.executiveedge.com.au will continue to service the SME corporate market as well as cater for the discerning leisure client as it has successfully done for the past 16 years. The Executive Edge name and brand will remain.

CT Connections www.ctconnections.com.au is carving a big reputation in the travel industry with its strong national corporate presence. With the most advanced, cutting-edge technology and innovation setting it apart from the pack, CT Connections recently won the AFL and PGA Australia travel management accounts among other notable wins.

Totem Group www.totemgroup.com.au is the dedicated conference, groups and incentives division that complements the group in creating a full service leisure and corporate enterprise.

CT Connections Travel Group Director Gary Reichenberg said all three brands offered “best in class” service and the group now has the ability to leverage off each other on all facets of travel – bigger buying power over the combined brands which will deliver enhanced value and service for clients.

“It’s excellent news for both companies. For Executive Edge, it is instantly enhanced by the technology at CT Connections, which is leading edge, and there is access to thousands more corporate clients stepping up their ‘leisure’ and ‘luxury’ travel needs,” Reichenberg said.

“For CT Connections, we’re thrilled to team with such a highly reputable, trusted and respected leisure travel management specialist to cater for our corporate clients and have access to many and varied hotel memberships including world-class leaders in Virtuoso, Four Seasons, Mandarin Oriental, and Peninsula among many more.”

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Luxury travel designer: Sally Bird

“I caught the travel bug early,” says Bird, who at just 17 years of age left her family in Australia and embarked on a backpacking trip across Europe . She had spent her early childhood living in the UK (before her parents relocated to Australia), and was eager to return. Travel has been her life ever since. Director and co-founder of luxury travel agency Executive Edge Travel + Events , Bird now works as a hands-on consultant who plans, books and coordinates leisure travel for high-end and discerning travellers.

When asked what motivated her and her partners to start the company, Bird responds, “The clients. We [my partners] worked together at another agency and that workplace became really big. I didn’t want my clients to get swallowed up in the call centre environment. I wanted to ensure they still felt special.”

This is how Executive Edge Travel + Events positions itself; as a personalised service with a very high touch approach. Working closely with a wide variety of clients, Bird and her colleagues cover corporate bookings for end of year company trips and business trips, as well as individual, group and multigenerational holidays. They handle everything from research, accommodation and restaurant bookings; to buying event tickets and out of office hours phone calls if something goes wrong and the client needs help.  “I’m a total perfectionist. I know it all and I have to get it right, I care about every booking I make and every client I have,” says Bird.

Recently, Bird has been organising a Europe trip for a group of six couples. “The men are bike riding in the Dolomites and the girls are hiking in Germany and then they are all meeting up in Greece for a cruise before they then go on individual journeys,” explains Bird. The seven-week vacation has been months of planning “Hotels, car hire, flights, day tours and private guides. One couples’ trip has been organised around retracing their family heritage steps from Ireland to Scotland , says Bird.

While the team at Executive Edge Travel + Events organise specialised trips all over the globe, Bird has a number of speciality areas based on her own travel experiences. “ Croatia is one of my favourite travel experiences because I’ve spent a lot of time island hopping along the Dalmatian coast. I’ve sent so many people on private yacht charters and cruises around those islands because I’ve experienced them and I know how amazing the authentic local moments are. It’s the same with the south of France ; when my son was a year old, we rented a villa in a tiny village for a summer and did a lot of driving. So I’ve planned a lot of driving holidays around the area because I can look at a map and point out where they should go and the names of the villages. You become an expert by doing it yourself,” says Bird.

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Her real love affair, however, is with Africa . “I went to Africa with my parents for my 30 th birthday and did safaris in Tanzania and Kenya and finished up on a beach in Zanzibar. It’s so multigenerational because you can be five years old, or 30, or 60 and it’s still amazing, no matter how old you are Africa offers something so different,” says Bird. Since then, she has returned four times and visited eight countries. Bird draws on this wealth of knowledge when booking client trips, but maintains, “It comes down to finding out what they want to get out of Africa.”

Bird notes the importance of little details when booking any client trip. “It’s all about offering different options for different people. If you are booking a trip for the older generation you want to make sure the accommodation is on the ground floor, for families you have to make sure there’s a swimming pool and a playground… does the restaurant serve kids meals? It’s about reassuring things that will make the entire experience seamless”.

When I ask if she has a favourite client trip Bird responds, “ I love all the trips that I do but I especially love the ones when people go where I’ve been and they come back and share the same feelings – that makes it worth it.”

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View when driving from Yelisovo airport to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky

The first myth I want to disprove is that getting to Kamchatka is extremely costly. It’s not. Going between February and April, a return flight from Moscow can be had for 11,000 roubles (US$380 / £220). Not bad for 18 hours total flying time. In summer the flights are more expensive but still, if you book them a few months in advance, can be got for 16,000 roubles return.

It’s true, many people will tell you that March and April are the worst months to visit because the snow is starting to melt and everything’s a bit sloshy and dirty in settlements. On the other hand, these are great months for the independent traveller! During winter zimniki (temporary winter roads made of compacted snow or simply frozen river surfaces) open up all over Kamchatka, granting access to communities that in summer are totally isolated. Hitch hiking is possible right from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the very north of the peninsula. Alternatively, vehicles can be hired in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky from tour firms. Also in the winter or early spring months places can be reached that are away even from the zimniki, either by snowmobile or by the use of cross country skis. For example, Klyuchevskaya Sopka, Eurasia’s largest active volcano, can be accessed from the village of Klyuchi without the need even for a guide by a traveller with a pair of cross country skis. Bears do not wake up until mid-April so this is not a danger, but bears almost never attack anyone anyway.

The main disadvantages of winter travel in Kamchatka are that it is cold, there is no greenery and there are no bears, which some people come here especially to see.

The second myth I’d like to dispel is that travel around the peninsula requires hiring a helicopter. As mentioned above, in winter you can get almost anywhere by hitch hiking. I even hitched a lift with bear hunters on snowmobiles from their village to a reindeer herder encampment 100km away. In summer snowmobiles are replaced by horses, and transport is reduced from long distance ice-road journeys to irregular inter-settlement all-terrain vehicle trips. Hitch hiking is possible on these all-terrain vehicles though.

Throughout the year there are fairly expensive public helicopter flights to all settlements which are nevertheless much cheaper than hiring your own helicopter. There is also one permanent, year-round dirt road leading halfway up the peninsula. Some distance after the town of Milkovo, about 350km north of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky , it forks. The right fork leads to Klyuchi , site of Eurasia’s largest active volcano, and further to the port town of Ust-Kamchatsk. The left fork leads to the indigenous Even villages of Anavgay and Esso. Daily buses go from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Klyuchi , Anavgay and Esso, costing about 1000 roubles each way. In winter a zimnik passable by lorries heads north from Anavgay 36 hours to the otherwise isolated town of Palana. From Palana more zimniki head further north to yet more isolated settlements. From the peninsula’s very northernmost settlements there are even EXTREMELY irregular snowmobile and all-terrain vehicle connections with Magadan Oblast and Chukotka. Another zimnik, only passable by all-terrain vehicle, heads from Anavgay to the village of Ust-Khayryuzovo on Kamchatka’s west coast.

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