Rationalization of travel management

B. Demand management measures

Moreover, management of travel resources continued to improve.

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Claims (travel, etc.) Other disbursements General services Buildings management

III. BALANCING SUPPLY AND DEMAND THE MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE

The main areas covered by the system are personnel management post management accounting procurement travel payroll and budget execution.

communications, building management and mail operations, and procurement and transportation (e.g., travel authorizations, visa

Management should ensure that the necessary resources for travel are provided for site visits

Figures indicate that 70 of China s travel demand is concentrated within a 3km radius. On this basis, the short distance travel market will become a bike sharing paradise sooner or later.

At ECA, such measures centred around human resources management programme planning budgeting, monitoring and evaluation and information management and improved service standards for procurement, travel and building management.

Furthermore, it has been reviewing a uniform standard for requesting travel agency services worldwide that would enhance productivity of United Nations travel management and improve the administration of travel at offices away from Headquarters.

Market trends increasingly reveal the growing demand for diversified travel experiences, from seaside resorts (often linked to mass tourism) to cultural discoveries.

Substantive inputs to local actors range from land administration to demand based water management, participatory planning, urban crime and safety and inclusive urban management.

The Department was also developing a module in Galileo for spare parts management and demand forecasting.

The Committee believes that there is considerable room for improvement in sharing common administrative and management services such as procurement, air support management and travel services.

It believed that economies could be made in areas such as management, general services, travel, and consulting services.

The Committee is concerned that travel may have begun to be viewed as a perquisite of senior management.

The sectors covered are energy (supply and demand), agriculture, land use change and forestry, and waste management.

Economic instruments that include demand management measures could play an important role in promoting efficient water use.

The Department had also established an extensive training programme on modern spare parts management and demand forecasting.

(i) Increased support as well as private concertation of demand side management initiatives in markets, where applicable.

V.40 In particular, the travel requirement requested under executive direction and management is unchanged at 277,000 (before recosting).

Review travel management process, with a view to ensuring that the United Nations is in line with best practices.

61. The Advisory Committee recognizes that travel is an essential ingredient in the effective management of the peacekeeping process.

88. General Services Section. This office is responsible for a wide range of activities, including construction, procurement, travel and traffic, buildings management, transport (including the vehicle fleet in the field) and protocol activities. The growth of the Tribunal has led to increased procurement, travel and buildings management activities. In particular, the Procurement Travel Unit has been unable to meet current demands.

(a) Providing administrative and management direction including appropriate programme support services (covering human resources management, medical services, financial, security, procurement and travel related operations, facilities and buildings management, information technology and communications, conference, language and editorial services)

Water demand management policies could also be used for reducing the waste water volumes and required investment in sewerage.

For purposes of discussion, they may be broadly divided into (a) supply side approaches and (b) demand management measures.

(a) Countries should be encouraged to adopt integrated water resource management, including demand management, develop renewable and non conventional resources, and involve stakeholders in planning and implementing water policies

At the level of the Secretariat, monitoring and evaluation take place through management and other meetings, supported by administrative tools such as monthly financial management reports or periodical travel and consultancy plans.

No travel requests were denied, although OIOS determined that the Director's travel could have been curtailed in order to ensure greater management oversight of programme effectiveness by the Director at the Institute's headquarters in Santo Domingo.

a. Continuing to provide services in the areas of travel, shipments in connection with appointment and repatriation of staff, visas and laissez passers, inventory and property management, transport, buildings management, communications and electronic data processing management information system (EDP MIS)

The emphasis is on enhancing public awareness, improving energy efficiency on the demand side and better management of the transport sector.

At the same time however, the self drive travel market, the size of which is expected to exceed RMB1 trillion, is confronted with twin challenges. On the one hand, the development of the self drive travel industry is out of step with market demand. Self drive travel organizers such as self drive clubs and travel agents are confronted with meager profits. On the other hand, self drive travel ae confronted with infrastructure and services that are still in their infant stages.

We'll travel far and we'll travel fast.

When we travel, we travel my way.

With favourable external conditions in 2004, economic policy in the region focused on demand management and on development with weaker financial constraints.

52. Pricing and economic incentives, as policy instruments for demand management, have been gaining gradual acceptance in developed countries in recent years.

Meanwhile, with higher consumption demand, tourists who enjoyed self drive tour of sights have begun to change their opinion. Instead of alighting to take photos, and boarding to sleep during the self drive travel process, they are now more concerned with the travel experience and process.

It is travel in time, travel on time.

Upon enquiry, the Committee was provided with additional information on the travel requirements under executive direction and management, which amount to 218,600 (before recosting).

Although the role of monetary policy in demand management is limited when a national currency is pegged to a currency such as the dollar, its indirect effect of creating healthy domestic demand could be observed in 2004.

Other training and examination activities that do not incur extra costs except for travel and daily subsistence allowance are centrally organized management training courses (six persons in 1998), language proficiency testing in the field and translator examinations (travel costs for examiners)

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