Business Village Launches the Online Travel Agency for Small & Medium Enterprises.Business Editors PARIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 15, 2001 This morning, Business Village, a subsidiary of BNP Paribas BNP Paribas (Euronext: BNP, TYO: 8665 ) is one of the main banks in Europe and France. It was created on 23 May 2000 through the merger of Banque Nationale de Paris (BNP) and Paribas. , along with its five partners, announced the launch of an online travel agency aimed at small businesses. The service will be incorporated into the www.business-village.fr portal's new offer. Business Village has joined forces with four strategic partners and one preferred supplier to offer very small/small businesses and professionals an exclusive "professional" travel service, based on the advantages currently enjoyed by large corporations. In 2000, business trips represented a cost of 26 billion Euros in France, with major corporations accounting for 18 billion and small businesses, 8 billion. To date, travel is the No. 1 purchase item on the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the , with 47 percent of transactions carried out online in France. The positioning of Business Village on the segment of small businesses is therefore a highly strategic one. Business Village's offer is unique in France and enjoys the support of five major partners: Amadeus Amadeus, 1845–90, king of Spain (1870–73), duke of Aosta, son of Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. After the expulsion (1868) of Queen Isabella II, Juan Prim urged the Cortes to elect Amadeus as king. He accepted the crown reluctantly. (world leader in travel technologies), Europebyair (international specialist in e-tourism leisure & business), Europcar Europcar is a Paris based car rental company owned by the French investment company Eurazeo, after its sale by the Volkswagen group in June 2006. The company was founded in Paris in 1949. (a world leader in car rental), Rosenbluth International (world leader in corporate travel management services) and the preferred supplier Utell (world No. 1 hotel central reservations central reservation Noun Brit & NZ the strip that separates the two sides of a motorway or dual carriageway central reservation n (BRIT) (AUT) → mediana unit). The service -- Business Village Voyages Pro -- gives small businesses access to 500 air companies, 51,000 hotels and 48 car rental companies while offering prices negotiated with its strategic partners Europebyair, Rosenbluth, Europcar and the preferred supplier Utell. This means that member companies of Business Village (through a subscription of 40 Euros (excl excl - exclamation mark . tax)/month) benefit from the offer set up by the buyer teams at Business Village, BNP Paribas and Europebyair, by ordering online plane tickets, hotel reservations and/or and/or conj. Used to indicate that either or both of the items connected by it are involved. Usage Note: And/or is widely used in legal and business writing. short-term Short-term Any investments with a maturity of one year or less. short-term 1. Of or relating to a gain or loss on the value of an asset that has been held less than a specified period of time. car rental, 24 hrs/day, seven days/week. The reservations engine specially developed for Business Village is adapted to companies' needs and offers a complete range of travel services, enabling small businesses to benefit from the best prices on the market. Created in September 1998 and winner of the 1999 Golden Click top French BtoB Site, the Business Village portal -- www.business-village.fr -- offers a whole range of services and products to assist companies in their business development: professional translation, circulation of press releases, company creation, commercial information, special sector information, a central purchasing group, etc. |
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