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Check-in with Suzanne

Last week I presented on the topic of business travel recovery at a Citi Client Conference for an audience of senior procurement professionals from FTSE200 organizations. Also presenting was Ulrika Rosén, Travel & Meeting Manager for Tetra Pak, a leading global food processing and packaging company who said her company hasn’t stopped traveling throughout the pandemic. She said the company has more compliant travelers now than they had pre-pandemic – because business travelers can’t travel on auto-pilot anymore.  That struck home. Even experienced travelers are having to adapt to the new reality – one of more complexity and…

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GBTA Calls For Details On Return To International Travel

Alexandria, VA  – GBTA supports the goals of the six-point plan to tackle the surge of COVID-19 put forth by President Biden today. The importance of vaccinations and testing are important and GBTA fully supports these initiatives. However, we were disappointed that another week has gone by without any details from the COVID Task Forces on when or…

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How Will the Coronavirus Pandemic Reshape Corporate Meeting and Event Planning?

 In this episode of The Business of Travel, Chris Ely, Research Director, GBTA and Julie Haddix, Senior Director, Industry Solutions, Cvent discuss how the coronavirus pandemic will reshape corporate meeting and event planning. This discussion, based on a recent GBTA research study sponsored by Cvent, examines how corporate meetings and events will evolve as…

Delta variant impact on business travel’s recovery

 Has the Delta variant and other variants thrown a curve ball into the path of business travel’s recovery? How is the industry feeling now? And what do they expect for the months ahead? In this GBTA COVID-19 Recovery Poll podcast, Mark Sharoff, Research Manager, and Debbie Iannaci, head of Communications take a look at…

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Global Business Travel Association Welcomes the Return of International Travel in Canada

Toronto, Ontario – The Global Business Travel Association Canada (GBTA Canada) welcomed the return of international travel (essential and non-essential) to Canada, for fully vaccinated travellers from across the globe. While the Government of Canada loosened restrictions for international travel into Canada over the last several weeks, most business travel into the country continued to…

GBTA Returns To In-Person Events As Demand For Face-To-Face Meetings Grows Across Europe

London, UK – The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association and worldwide leader in education, research, networking and advocacy for the industry has announced a number of in-person conferences and events as we head into the final quarter of 2021. The events, held across multiple European locations, are amongst…

Spotlight on Christina Woronchak, 2021 WINiT Top 50 Women in Travel Recipient

Christina is passionate about global travel. She has traveled the world and has devoted her career to the business travel industry, leading sales and client management teams for leading global, hospitality and travel management companies. As Deem’s Chief Revenue Officer, Christina leads the sales and customer experience teams. In that capacity, she is responsible for…

Politics of Travel: Adding it up after the Boys of Summer are Gone

Greetings – it is the last week of Summer. Kids are kind of going back to school.  Vaccinations in the U.S. are rising. GBTA Convention planning is going full steam and has a detailed listing on precautions being taken on the website. It is constantly being updated, so please revisit it. Stay tuned for more information, because the summer is…

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Business Travel Continues Moving Forward But Uncertainty Around Variants Impacts More Accelerated Recovery

Alexandria, VA – The business travel industry continues to report an overall willingness and optimism about the return to business travel. However, the rise of the Delta variant and other variants has become a cause for uncertainty and increased concern over the past month. This is according to the latest poll from The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association and worldwide leader in education, research, networking, and advocacy for the industry.   This poll is the 22nd in a series tracking the pulse of GBTA’s membership of global…