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Create-A-Card Founder & CEO Arthur Messina and Limo Marketer Founder & Owner Mark Petree will be presenting a free Zoom webinar this Wednesday, May 12 at 2 p.m.
The session is designed to educate transportation companies on how to book more rides with the use of Google in 2021. They will be joined by transportation company owners who are currently working with this program to help increase their rides during the recovery. Hear from corporate transportation provider Derek Stattford of Elegant Image Limousine in California and retail provider Andres Acevedo of New York’s Limo Star as they discuss the successes they are having using Google to book more rides and how their follow-up system is working for them.
To join the meeting on Zoom, use meeting ID# 84717750666 and password 654321.
Visit createacardinc.com for more information.
[05.11.20]
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On its 100th birthday, and despite the difficulties the chauffeur industry is facing with the COVID pandemic, Chabé has reached a decisive milestone for its international development with the opening of its London-based international hub. The group is now Europe’s largest operator with an employed chauffeur model and direct presence in the UK, France, Switzerland, and Monaco.
Chabé Group CEO Guillaume Connan
“I am really proud on the 100th year of Chabé to announce the expansion of the business into London as a key strategic market and simultaneously the creation of our leading network servicing 100 countries worldwide. We have truly internationalized the business and are now catering to international clients as well as domestic European demand. We are offering to all our clients a truly global service,” said Chabé Group CEO Guillaume Connan.
David Bruce, UK CEO, leads the expansion of Chabé in the UK and has attracted a team that has extensive experience in the industry.
Chabé UK CEO David Bruce
“It’s a fantastic opportunity to build the Chabé business out in London and set up the international trading hub to serve our clients around the world, as well as adding new services specifically for the Financial services market,” said Bruce.
From London, Chabé has developed an integrated network of partners, considered among the best operators in the industry. Chabé selects its partners based on their service capability, their compliance with legal requirements and their commitment to deliver consistent high standards of service. Partners are all bound by a common service level agreement, including COVID-related safety measures and overall duty of care.
Chabé International Operations Director Nivin Salem
Nivin Salem is responsible for all International Operations for Chabé Group and is based in London.
“Chabé’s clients look for a seamless managed service for all their international needs. They can rely on us to deliver international service at the highest standard that Chabé is known for and we guarantee duty of care for every single passenger. We are delivering a service assured, door-to-door international service to all our clients,” said Salem.
Chabé offers ground transportation operators, in particular American ones, a one-stop shop for Europe through its London operations, delivering a high and consistent quality of service, reducing the booking/ monitoring and administrative burden for their teams, all at competitive rates.
“As international travel resumes, we see a strong demand for our international services from existing and new customers. We are ready and willing to support all operators as we all work hard to get business back to its pre-COVID levels, and very much look forward to meeting again in person our friends and colleagues from the industry,” added Connan.
Visit chabe.fr for more information.
[05.11.21]
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Once leading the jobless claims at the beginning of the pandemic, leisure & hospitality (L&H) was the strongest hiring sector in April in a jobs report that was otherwise disappointing. The addition of 331,000 jobs in the L&H sector was offset by the loss of more than 186,000 jobs in retail, manufacturing, warehousing, and professional & business services.
Since January, unemployment in L&H has steadily been dropping from a high of 39 percent to last month’s newest low of 10.8 percent. However, this still exceeds the overall U.S. unemployment rate of 6 percent.
This coincides with a robust return of leisure travel this past Mother’s Day—more than 1.7 million air travelers took to the skies on the Friday before the weekend that honors moms, setting a new record not seen since March 2020. Business travel, however, remains lackluster.
Business travel and transportation organizations aren’t backing down from kickstarting travel. Among the recent advocacy efforts are the NLA’s new On the Road Again campaign, while the Global Business Travel Association directly addressed COVID-19 Response Team Coordinator Jeffrey Zients in a letter urging the opening of non-essential Trans-Atlantic travel.
“Leisure & hospitality is significantly outperforming overall job creation even though travel in the U.S. is only operating at just over half strength,” said U.S. Travel Association Executive Vice President for Public Affairs and Policy Tori Emerson Barnes in a press release. “International travel and business travel accounted for 41 percent of all travel spending in 2019, but those two segments remain virtually halted. This disappointing jobs report would have been significantly worse without leisure & hospitality, and we’re missing a huge opportunity to restore jobs by not prioritizing the reopening of two key segments of the travel industry.”
The next jobs report will be released on June 4.
[05.11.21]