Winfried Barczaitis appointed director of Partnership Travel Consulting in EMEA

Winfried Barczaitis, independent consultant of the Russian Association of Business Travel, has been appointed director of Partnership Travel Consulting (PTC) in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).

«No doubt, Mr Barczaitis is an acknowledged leader of the business travel industry with huge experience in the field of business trip management», PTC founder and general director Andrew Menkes noted. «He has occupied leading positions in companies like GUT-Reisen, Reisebüro Schenker & Co. GmbH, Thomas Cook, KarstadtQuelle AG and American Express (AmEx) for 40 years of his business travel career, so it is great honour for us to work in one team with him».

After Mr Barczaitis left American Express, he started his own consulting practice and established Barczaitis GbR Business Support in Bad Honnef (North Rhine-Westphalia). Apart from his native Germany, he has great working experience in Eastern Europe, Russia, the CIS. Actually, travel industry experts consider Winfried Barczaitis to be the main ideologist of development of business travel management in these markets.

«PTC has the reputation of a powerful consulting agency that offers breakthrough solutions for the industry, including sales outsourcing», Mr Barczaitis says. «This is why I am joining Andy and other PTC experts, I hope to take the company to the new level in Europe». (partnershiptc.com)