Travel agency consortium Advantage has launched a consultancy service for its business travel members.
The organisation - the largest alliance of independent travel management companies in the UK and Ireland - said Advantage Consultancy Services would help members "achieve their full [business] potential".
Norman Gage, Advantage's director of business travel, will head the project. Services include business diagnostics, business improvement planning, continuity planning, human resources advice, finance guidance and training.
Gage, a former winner of the David Brown Award at the annual Business Travel Awards for his outstanding contribution to the industry over five decades, will also spearhead the roll out of Advantage Managed Services for Business Travel (AMS4BT).
The group said Advantage Managed Services (AMS) has been a success with leisure travel members, providing them with front and back office systems, merchant facilities, central payments and broadband.
Advantage said AMS4BT would enable members to focus more on servicing clients, marketing and new business.
In other changes within the corporate travel team, Steve Murray becomes head of Focus operations, taking over day-to-day management of the Focus Partnership from Gage.
Murray will be supported by David Jackson who becomes business operations manager.