Happy September! I don’t know about you, but work hit me like a wrecking ball the Tuesday after Labor Day. We have a lot of items to cover, so sit back, read, and listen to this special song about how I feel about our global elected officials coming back. CANADIAN ROAM: As of midnight Monday night, the Canadian government…
Michelle is a highly seasoned sales professional with 19 years of experience with Best Western/BWH Hotel group and over 25 years in the hospitality industry building relationships and creating new solutions for partnerships that deliver results for customers and hoteliers. What advice would you give to women just starting their careers in business travel? Stay…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here we are on the last day of August. Like many of you, just a few weeks ago I thought we would be in a much different place in terms of the pandemic and the return to business travel. And the results of our most recent GBTA COVID-19 poll released last week reflect our current reality with…
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