Alexandria, VA – As business travel resumes amid an ongoing pandemic, keeping connected with business travelers has taken on renewed urgency for companies and their travel managers. It’s critical for travelling employees to stay on top of changes and it has accelerated the need for travel managers to communicate often complex, fast-changing information while not…
Welcome back to the New Year! I hope you had the chance to enjoy the magic of the holiday season and share some meaningful moments with the people you care about most. That’s what really matters. I took some “real” time off and so did all the GBTA staff with a week-long holiday hiatus –…
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world’s largest business travel association, is delighted to announce the appointment of Ben Park as the new chair of the GBTA Europe Advisory Board, following an extensive application process including a quorum of representatives from GBTA Committees, GBTA France and GBTA Italy. Ben Park will serve a three-year…
The recent emergence and yet-unknown trajectory of a new COVID-19 variant is the latest development on the road to recovery for the business travel industry. Due to the omicron variant, many business travel practitioners are concerned about the potential economic impacts in the industry. Most companies, however, are taking a wait-and-see approach before introducing new…
Is anyone completely comfortable yet with “expecting the unexpected”? Me either. Not an easy task in current times, but that doesn’t mean there haven’t been some upsides amid the challenges. The omicron variant is one of the latest developments testing our resolve. On Thursday, GBTA will release the findings from our special quick poll about the emergence of omicron as another twist in…
How has COVID changed the way we meet and eat? We chat with food & beverage experts from Niagara Casinos and the Shangri-La Toronto Hotel on the changing landscape of food & beverage ….and how these changes will affect meeting professionals as they resume the business of meetings and events. You can download…
Edyth Adedeji is Director of Sales, Los Angeles and Southwest Region at Delta Air Lines where she is responsible for developing and achieving Delta’s key strategic sales objectives across a mix of corporate and agency accounts headquartered primarily in California and Texas. Edyth joined Delta in 2010 as part of Delta’s Finance MBA rotational program…
It might have felt like déjà vu this past week as the world started to assess the fast-emerging news about the omicron variant. Earlier in the year, we faced the discovery of the delta variant and whose effects we are still tracking. New COVID-19 developments will likely continue for the foreseeable future and will demand our ongoing agility and resiliency. GBTA is staying agile, too. Out of an abundance of care and safety, working with our VDR partners In Europe, we made the decision to reschedule what would have been this week’s GBTA Europe Conference. (From the feedback we received, we know many of…
I was all packed, I had a fresh haircut and was arranging my documentation for my trip to the GBTA Conference, Berlin in partnership with VDR when bigmouth COVID struck again and the Conference was postponed. I am disappointed, but I know that the conference will be excellent come this spring. And, who doesn’t want to be in…
Dear WINiT by GBTA Supporter, As we finalize WINiT by GBTA’s programming for 2022, it is important that we ensure we are prioritizing what is most important to YOU. Completing this survey also provides you with the opportunity to sign up (at no cost) for direct updates specific to the WINiT Community. Please take less than five minutes to…
English 
Spanish 
French 
Portuguese