Travel Manager Award 2007

Michel Dieleman, Group Travel Manager of Orange-France Telecom, is awarded the TRAVEL MANAGER OF THE YEAR Award 2007

Monday, December 3, 2007: Michel Dieleman of Orange-France Telecom, received the award for Travel Manager of the Year 2007 in France, at the second annual Business Travel Awards held at the Casino de Paris, France. This award is presented to the Travel Manager who has successfully delivered the most ambitious and innovative project of the year.

Michel Dieleman also won an award in 2006 for the “big bang ”deployment of an automated solution for the management of business expenses at France Telecom, and this year won the award for the introduction of an ebooking solution, once again in “big bang”mode.

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Michel Dieleman thanked his team and project partners including:

  • Carlson WagonLit Travel – Travel Agency
  • Capgemini Consulting – implementation support
  • Amadeus etravel Management – Self Booking Tool provider
  • Etap-On-Line with Ulysse T & E – Management Solution for travel requests and expense claims

The roll out was exceptional for its scope and success, covering:

  • 40,000 employees
  • An adoption rate of more than 50% from day one of implementation
  • 180,000 trips per year

The ETAP-ON-LINE team sends their congratulations to the lucky winner and thanks him for his ongoing confidence & commitment.