The GBTA Ladders – Season 9 brought together the best industry talent for mentorship, education and connection to inspire and shape next-generation industry leaders. This season’s project topic – Get Inspired: Looking Beyond Travel to Drive Change – was led by keynote speakers Barbara Rose and Kessie Bratko at the 2023 GBTA Ladders Summit in New Orleans, LA, last…
Discussing key types of agreements for the meetings and events supply chain to include NDAs (Non-Disclosure Agreements), MSA (Master Services Agreement), and RFP (request for proposal). Shauna Whitehead, GBTA Meetings & Events CommitteeDonna Patrick, Abbott Music track is Space Jazz by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Findings from GBTA’s “The State of Climate Action in Business Travel” report cite awareness, investment and communication as key factors in advancing global sustainability The time is now for the global travel industry to enact meaningful changes for the climate, according to a newly released report, “The State of Climate Action in Business Travel –…
Ciudadanos de al menos 60 países que viajen a Europa necesitarán, a partir de 2024, una autorización para ingresar a la Unión Europea, llamada ETIAS (European Travel Information and Authorisation System) La autorización de viaje ETIAS es un requisito de entrada para los ciudadanos exentos de visa que viajan a cualquiera de estos 30 países europeos. Está…
Description: Join Karolien De Hertogh, Director UK & Ireland, United Airlines, Calum Hawley, Global Travel Manager, Endeavour Mining Plc and Rohini Sengupta, Director, Environmental Sustainability, United Airlines for an indepth discussion on how the aviation industry has pledged to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050 and Sustainable Aviation Fuel otherwise known as SAF is…
Organizations enter agreement to foster alignment across the industry to help make better options available at scale for business travelers The GBTA Foundation, the non-profit, cause-led arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world’s premier business travel and meetings trade organization, and Travalyst, a not-for-profit organization which seeks to scale sustainability within the…
2023 Review Six months into the year, Craig Collins and Ray Rackham of CIBT looks at the visa and immigration challenges of a world in continuing transition. Travel Risk: Decades in the Making Risk and crises have affected the travel and immigration industry long before Covid. Indeed, the SARS outbreak in 2002/2003 had a significantly…
“Happy employees, happy company!” Placing employee well-being, DE&I and digitalization ‘front and centre’ is critical to spur employee engagement and appeal to job seekers. Chad Lemon, former TV broadcaster and BCD moderator is joined by industry experts Angela Williams, VP- People & Culture BCD UK & Ireland and Lynne Griffiths, CEO, Sirus Talent Solutions to…
Latest research from GBTA and Cvent explores the critical and evolving role of travel managers including reshaped responsibilities, compensation insights, DE&I advances, and career satisfactionLike most of us, corporate travel managers can divide their careers into two distinct eras: before COVID and after COVID. And like most professions, the ongoing adjustments for travel managers to…
Why flexibility, security and continuity are key to making it work For many companies, the pandemic has irrevocably changed the way in which employees live, work and travel, with some organizations introducing formal – or informal – ‘work from anywhere’ policies. These new working patterns are undoubtedly here to stay but it’s important to consider…
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