Guest Post: Four Perspectives on Technology
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Guest Post: Four Perspectives on Technology

The following is a guest post in our GBTA Ladders Blog Series. The GBTA Ladders program is a unique mentor program designed to help develop the passion and skills of business travel professionals enabling them to help solve the major challenges facing business travel. A call for new mentors and mentees for the next round…

What IS Sustainability – and What’s All the Fuss About Anyway?

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts designed to give you an introduction to the world of sustainability and take you through the rationale, methods, best practices and reasons why you should get involved. And, how you create an ROI! What IS sustainability – and what’s all the fuss about anyway? I’ll…

Guest Post: Are You Prepared to be Tomorrow’s Travel Manager?

Guest Post: Are You Prepared to be Tomorrow’s Travel Manager?

Today’s guest blog post comes from Brad Bennett, product marketing manager, corporate solutions, at Sabre.             Are you prepared to be tomorrow’s travel manager? None of us know what the future holds, but we do know that the life of a travel manager in 2020 will be different than it…

GBTA and The Wharton School Celebrate 15 Years of GLP Program

I am pleased to announce GBTA has again renewed its partnership with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to deliver the Global Leadership Professional® (GLP) Program. This marks 15 years of delivering this program to business travel professionals and there is truly nothing else like it in the industry. The only masters-level course…

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Breaking Down the Business Traveler Sentiment Index

The first-ever GBTA Global Business Traveler Sentiment Index™ in partnership with American Express was recently released in July with the goal to understand travel trends in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Japan,  Mexico, United Kingdom, and the United States. It examined how business travelers feel about their travel experience and how those feelings affect their actual behaviors…

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Breaking Down the World’s Major Business Travel Markets

When the GBTA Foundation released its annual global report and business travel forecast this July,sponsored by Visa, Inc., it highlighted five countries in a segment of newly emerging markets often overlooked because they aren’t as large as the traditional powers or the more commonly discussed BRIC markets. The five countries called out: Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico,…

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Business Traveler Satisfaction Varies By Country

Recently, the first ever GBTA Global Business Traveler Sentiment Index™ in partnership with American Express revealed how business travelers across the globe feel about their travel experience and how those feelings affect their actual behaviors related to travel. This first global report showcased many differences (but also some similarities) between the countries surveyed for the…