Dave Hilfman’s Monday Memo to GBTA Members

Dear Friends and Colleagues:   Last year, we launched our Ready. Safe. Travel. campaign to advocate for unity and a safe and responsible restart of business travel. In 2021, we continue to face near-daily changes that impact our industry, including vaccines, testing and quarantines, just to name a few.   Our upcoming virtual Ready. Safe….

Business Travel: Full Recovery Expected by 2025

Alexandria, Virginia (February 2, 2021) – The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association – released its annual BTI™ Outlook, a detailed analysis of business travel in 2020, with projections for 2021 and beyond. The BTI Outlook, now in its 12th year, is an exhaustive study of business travel spending…

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GBTA: World Governments Should Standardize Travel Requirements, Expand Vaccination Programs and COVID-19 Testing, Rethink Quarantine Proposals for International Travelers

Alexandria, VA (January 28, 2021) – As the governments of the United States, Canada, United Kingdom and the European Union broaden or impose quarantine periods for international travelers, the Global Business Travel Association issued the following statement on COVID-19-related travel policies around the world. “The business travel industry and its millions of jobs globally continue to support all necessary and…

Daily News Brief – January 27, 2021

British residents arriving in England from COVID hotspots will have to quarantine in hotels, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced. The measures will apply to people coming from most of South America, southern Africa and Portugal, amid concern over new variants of the virus. Most overseas visitors from those countries are already barred from entering…

Daily News Brief – January 26, 2021

This year, Orlando, Fla., will be hosting the Global Business Travel Association’s annual convention. As business travel slowly rebounds, expect populated cities in more “open” states like Texas and Florida to bounce back before the historically most popular business travel destinations like New York City. First, the pandemic restrictions won’t be that much different, especially…