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How Travel Tech Is Reinventing Hotel Rankings with Geospatial Data
SOURCE: BIG NEWS NETWORK, 2/20

For years, hotel rankings have been built on a familiar formula: star ratings, price comparisons, and guest reviews. While these metrics offer value, they often fail to answer a simple but crucial question: what is actually around the hotel? Today, travel tech is transforming how properties are ranked by using geospatial data to evaluate not just the hotel itself, but the surrounding neighborhood.

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The Road Ahead: The Global Sustainable Business Travel Outlook and what this means for APAC

What do evolving global sustainability regulations mean for business travel in APAC? On March 25 at 1:00 PM Singapore, our speakers will unpack the global sustainable business travel outlook — from SAF and GHG reporting to data analytics, certifications, and compliance — and what it all means for the APAC market.

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Advanced Principles of Business Travel Management

Thursdays from 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM EST 

Registration Closing on February 22
Course Dates: March 5 – March 26 

Ready to move from program manager to strategic travel leader? The Advanced Principles of Business Travel Management course builds the skills you need to optimize policy, manage risk, strengthen supplier strategy, and leverage data to drive smarter decisions. Designed for experienced professionals, this course prepares you for the GTP^® exam and equips you with frameworks and best practices to take your travel program, and your career, to the next level. 

After the course you receive your GBTA Professional Development Certificate. GTP holders will earn 14 GTP^® Recertification credits.