More start-up tech companies will enter the business travel sector in 2023 with innovative solutions for automating pockets of the business travel industry predicts TripStax (www.tripstax.com). However, TMCs should not rush to adopt new tech merely to solve human resourcing challenges, TripStax warns, as hasty decisions could lead to another level of chaos in terms…
Thousands in Lost Savings for Clients BRUSSELS, 10 November 2022 — TRIPBAM, the global provider of air and hotel rate reshopping, auditing, benchmarking and sourcing, today shared new client data in which its TRIPBAM Contract Audit solution for air and hotel identified hundreds of thousands in lost savings from a handful of global corporates. The…
The traveller persona-based technology will consolidate everything a traveller requires for a seamless journey. 11th November 2022 – Dominant provider of corporate travel solutions Direct ATPI has partnered with Microsoft to empower the tech-savvy traveller. This innovation will allow clients to view, plan, book and discuss business trips all on Microsoft Teams. From downloading an…
Thursday 10, November – A new SAP Concur study has found that over half (58%) of employees across Europe are concerned about the impact of delayed expense reimbursements on their personal finances. The “Expense Management in Times of Inflation: How to Improve Employee Experience” report takes a closer look at the topic of inflation and…
Amex GBT’s Global Business Consulting team has published a white paper designed to help travel managers find strategies and solutions to decarbonise their travel programmes. The report, entitled 5 Steps to Reduce Emissions from Business Travel, looks at understanding this challenging journey, from conversations to data-driven business strategies. It covers a range of measures including…
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, 11 November 2022 – trava, the leading travel technology company revolutionising post-booking processes for travel agencies, has today announced the debut of its new website, trava.co Since the COVID-19 pandemic, trava has been repositioning its suite of post-booking solutions to help travel and flight resellers better understand its offering. The new website showcases this…
Driving forward seamless payment: Business travelers get to their destination with Uber for Business and pay securely and compliantly with AirPlus Neu-Isenburg / San Francisco / Washington, D.C., November 08, 2022 – The corporate payment specialist AirPlus International is pleased to announce that the AirPlus Company Account is now accepted on Uber. For business travelers…
High-level event brings together almost 300 global experts, travel industry, and policy leaders to outline solutions to decarbonize business travel aligned with Paris Climate Goals Brussels (9 November 2022) – An acknowledgment of urgency, value of collaboration, and the need for concrete action were the pervasive drivers of GBTA’s first Global Sustainability Summit yesterday which…
Check-In with Suzanne: Business Travel’s Greener Future And Getting There Together Sustainability and climate action are squarely in the worldwide spotlight this week with the United Nations’ COP27 underway with a focus on the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius for the future of people and the planet. In parallel, today GBTA is leading the discussion on collective climate action and solutions for the global business travel at our first-ever one-day Sustainability Summit in Brussels. Nearly 300 industry leaders, policy makers and partners have gathered – an acknowledgement that our industry’s sustainability…
With data and technology available increasingly in abundance in the business travel sector, how can you harness and make the most of it? Peter Psaltakis, Director Solutions Engineering, and Stephen Pitcher, Chief Data Science Officer, both from FCM joined Debbie Iannaci, head of GBTA Communications and Research during the 2022 GBTA Convention to provide their…
How Do You Transform An Industry? One Person at a Time. Today we step into November – for many of us the next few weeks will be busy and productive ones as we wrap up 2022 and move our focus to the year ahead. But it’s also a not-to-be-missed opportunity to reflect on how much…
Julian Walker, Vice President of External Communications and Public Relations for CWT, and Shawn DuBravac, CEO, Avrio Institute, sit down at the 2022 GBTA Convention to discuss the recently released 8th Annual CWT GBTA Global Business Travel Forecast 2023. Topics include the pressures on travel supply pricing, staffing challenges, and rising overall costs against a…
GBTA WINiT Awards 2022 Celebrate the People Driving PositiveChange and Career Mobility for Women in the Travel Industry Gala event in New York City honors industry volunteers who are giving back to others as achievers, innovators, change-makers, mentors and more. Alexandria, VA (October 28, 2022) – GBTA WINiT – a program of the GBTA Foundation…
GBTA boosts its mission with a commitment to the Glasgow Declaration on Climate Action, Sustainable Hospitality Alliance partnership, and the upcoming Sustainability Summit in Brussels. The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) and its charitable arm, the GBTA Foundation, announced today new developments in its commitment, partnering, and programming in sustainability to empower the global business…
Putting Words Into Action for Sustainable Business Travel We are all systems go for Brussels! Demand is high for our Sustainability Summit on November 8. And for the European Conference November 8-10, with attendees from more than 24 countries already registered – that’s twice as many buyers signed up now as attended our Berlin event…
How should we be thinking about the current state of business travel and the industry and what might be coming next and why? Henry Harteveldt, founder and travel industry analyst for Atmosphere Research sat down with Debbie Iannaci, head of GBTA Communications and Research during the 2022 GBTA Convention to provide his informed perspectives on…
New report from GBTA and Deem examines the balance between employee travel satisfaction and corporate cost and policy objectives and the role innovation can play As business travel continues its steady return and recovery around the world, what does the landscape look like now for both companies and their employee travelers? A new research report –…
The global pandemic has changed most of us, but for business travelers, there seem to be more anxious feelings. And understandably so. As we transition from Zoom and Microsoft Teams calls to in-person visits with clients we have not seen in almost three years, or never actually met in person, there is a combination of…
“Learning” Is Our Middle Name at GBTA One of our guiding tenets at GBTA providing meaningful learning opportunities for industry professionals throughout their career. That’s why you’ll find “Learning” among the trio of priority pillars of GBTA’s new brand. But most importantly, it is also our promise to you, our industry and how we’ll build…
GBTA WINiT Gala Awards event on October 27 in New York City will celebrate these and other industry award winners The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association and global leader in community, education, research and advocacy for the industry – today announced the WINiT by GBTA “Top 50 Women…
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, welcomes the European Commission’s initiative to propose a harmonised framework for calculating and reporting greenhouse gas emissions from the transport sector, called CountEmissionsEU. With GBTA members making it a priority to reduce the carbon footprint of their business travel, emissions data is…
Chris Ely, Research Director at GBTA and Ashley Sulewski, Global Strategic Manager at Uber for Business, discuss travel managers’ thoughts on how ground transportation has evolved post-pandemic in relation to sustainability, managed meal programs, bleisure, and more.
GBTA WINiT Podcast Series: Back and Better Than Ever What’s your new normal? After navigating a global pandemic, we sit down with some incredible women to learn what “returning” means to them. Produced by GBTA WINiT’s Return to the Office & Return to the Road Committee, tap into a new podcast series – Back and…
The Latest Insights On What Lies Ahead For Business Travel’s Recovery I’ll take progress over perfection every day because progress is what truly gets you where you need to go. In our latest GBTA Business Travel Recovery Poll released last week, we definitely saw more signs of progress based on what almost 600 global business…
Group travel and events are coming back but how can booking and managing them be even better? Ryan Morris, Vice President Sales, Groups 360, joined Debbie Iannaci, head of GBTA Communications and Research during the 2022 GBTA Convention for a discussion including how booking group rooms and event space online is changing, what is now…
Bookings and spending continue to recover, international travel narrows the gap on domestic travel, economic concerns eclipse COVID-19, even as higher expectations prevail for 2023 Alexandria, VA – The last quarter of a calendar year can typically be busy and productive for global business travel and travelers. But in a time when so much isn’t…
…while this may feel like yet another blog that highlights a change to travel in our post-COVID world, the many new considerations that both travellers and travel managers need to adapt to, are here with us to stay. Rising costs (fuel, airline tickets, hotels, etc.), complexities around booking (what proof of vaccinations do you need,…
The Many Ways We’re Empowering Our Future This week I wanted to recognize an area which doesn’t always get the spotlight it deserves but is important, appreciated, and needed to sustain our future: the valuable role and contributions of our members who volunteer to serve on GBTA committees. Currently 300+ members are engaged across…
Inspiring Many More Voices Through the GBTA Membership Offer In our work and lives we know that words matter – but putting action behind them is critical to having an impact. Onstage at the GBTA Convention in San Diego, in celebration of the new era for GBTA and its member-focused journey, we committed to award…
Alexandria, VA (September 26, 2022) – GBTA, the voice of the global business travel industry, applauds the recent announcement on next steps in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) Grand Challenge. GBTA strongly supports efforts to scale up new technologies to produce SAF on a commercial scale and put the aviation sector on a pathway to full decarbonization by 2050. …
In this 4th installment of ‘It’s SME Again’ podcast series, we chat with Dewitt Jones, world renowned Nat Geo photographer and motivational speaker about how travel can enhance or detract from performance, and how there is more than one right answer in travel, and life. We have previously spoken with road warriors from professional baseball…
Research from GBTA and HRS focuses on business travel’s recovery, the need for traveler service expertise, and challenges of sourcing co-working meeting spaces Cologne, Germany & Alexandria, VA – 21 September, 2022 – HRS, the leading global corporate travel and payment technology platform, and GBTA, the the world’s largest business travel association, announced the results…
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