http://intelligenttravel.com.au/ <br /> <br />Business Travel Safety: Tip 6 - Conferences and factories are not the same <br /> <br />In this section, we’re going to be talking about conferences, factories and the variances in between. <br /> <br />In many organizations for some obscure or unknown reason, categorize events, conferences, junkets or extraordinary group travel as not being included in their travel risk management processes and policies. What typically occurs is an overutilization of similar transport. That’s not just one or more individuals on airlines, but potentially all travelers using the same route or all travelers using the same gateways for transit travel and so on. Therefore, what we find is the combination of a group gathering that has an amplification of risk concerns not just because of the concentration of individuals but the potential loss and disruption that represents to an organization. Specifically, different type of attendees, that is an entire marketing department, an entire HR team, and an entire executive management. <br /> <br />So if one or more are afflicted or affected, like if they’re stranded in a location and can’t return, then decision making systems for the organization could be affected. If there is a viral outbreak for example and a number of people are incapacitated, it again affects the departmental process. In addition, if individuals are either targeted or exposed to everything for political and civil unrest, then obviously, their physical welfare also could be affected. <br /> <br />It’s important while travel risk management is an umbrella process, it’s important to classify and specifically focus on some activities that might heighten the exposure through seasonality or annual events or even biannual events. This does include corporate, events and conferences. <br /> <br />Therefore, anybody who’s visiting an outlying region such as a factory by themselves, or even as a group for that matter, will contextually fall into a different travel risk management category. It’
