The wishes and resolutions 2023 of DeplacementsPros
Wish : May the producers, distributors and buyers of business travel stop talking to us about 2019 when we talk to them about 2023! Especially if it is to claim, at the same time, that we have entered a new era… A new era which, apparently, really needs to refer to the old one!
Resolution : Well, ok, we admit… We will stop talking to you about 2019 (or so more than a little bit).
Wish : That the press attachés stop telling us “NICE day, NICE year, NICE holidays, etc”.
Resolution : We will keep their “BEAUTIFUL birthday” for them.
Wish : May the roseola pandemic and the Le Graët/Zidane war be finally behind us.
Resolution : And if this is the case, we will activate our powerful levers on other pandemics and other wars.
Wish : That the people responsible for com stop asking us to proofread our articles before publication. If it’s spelling, we’re better than them. And if it’s for something else, it’s “NO!”
Resolution : If it’s for spelling, we will publish our report cards from CE1 to prove our skills in this area. And if it’s for something else, it’s “NO!” Ah, but for you it’s different, Monsignor Ben Smith, Your Eminence Sébastien Bazin, Your Highness Bruno Le Maire…
Wish : That buyers or travel managers no longer need to climb the two or twenty-four rungs that separate them from their board of directors to answer the question “How are you?”
Resolution : We invent answers which we will publish, thus the right of reply which they will not fail to ask for urgently constituted the answer – which one does not doubt that it will be fast – which we wished to obtain.
Wish : That company press conferences assume themselves as such. That they do not seek to pass themselves off as anything other than the announcement – certainly very justified – of the best solution ever… Do you want an example? “Save the date – A contradictory debate on the best payment solutions opposes Jean-Eudes Trucmuche, commercial director of SuperFric, to Marguerite Pacrette, CEO of SuperFric.”
Resolution : We won’t be going to these crypto-press conferences anymore. Well, actually, we’re not going there already.
Wish : That during conferences devoted to business travel, speakers do something other than read the slides that are projected behind them. Tap dancing, juggling, diabolo, mime, magic tricks: there is no shortage of ideas.
Resolution : We will learn to read and we will create an email address. Thus, the speakers could send us their beautiful “powerpoint” before the conference and, finally released from their tedious exercise of recitation, they could really make us benefit from their expertise.
Wish : That symposiums and other conferences devoted to business travel are no longer differentiated solely by the order of the round tables in their programme: “Do we start with NDC and move on to CSR? – No, wait, I have a great idea: we just have to do the opposite!”
Resolution : It’s not pretty-pretty, this evil spirit. We will be force of proposals for stimulating themes. For example: “How does the new air distribution contribute to the decarbonization of business travel?
Wish : That the announcements of certain associations stop telling us about the year to come as that of the “DI-GI-TA-LI-SA-TION” of the profession. It’s too cruel when you hear that and find yourself in front of the toilet mirror: you suddenly feel old because you think you’re in 2008.
Resolution : We will apply anti-wrinkle cream every morning and every evening.
Wish : That the festive evenings of the business trip propose a quantity of champagne according to the quantity of petits-fours. Too much champagne, we don’t understand the answers. Too many petit fours, we don’t get any info.
Resolution : Uh… no, on that, no resolution.