Sources in and around GBTA’s 36 U.S. chapters described relationships between local groups and the global organization as amicable. There’s interest in creating new chapters, including one in Nevada. For the Pittsburgh Business Travel Association, though, a nearly nine-year-old rift has outlasted multiple GBTA administrations. That PBTA is not a chapter has not significantly hindered…
Read on for an edited transcript of an interview with Suzanne Neufang, CEO of the Global Business Travel Association, conducted remotely on Tuesday by The Company Dime co-founder Jay Campbell. So we’ll be seeing you in Dallas in a couple of weeks. What’s going to be different at this year’s convention? We might say we’re…
The American Society of Travel Advisors this month plans to offer training for those interested in the corporate travel agency environment. ASTA SVP of industry affairs and education Mark Meader called it a “missing component in the industry today.” Travel management companies do their own training, but the industry needs all the help it can…
The Global Business Travel Association is “in the process of reviving” its foundation, a press official confirmed. Established in 1989, the GBTA Foundation focused on providing education and research before going dormant a few years ago. In its refreshed form, it will house “sustainability/ESG and education-related initiatives,” according to the spokesperson. Announced in January as…
Bhart Sarin resigned from his post as president of the Global Business Travel Association. His announcement came a few weeks before the association’s members start voting on bylaw changes and a few months before they vote to fill at least six and as many as eight vacancies on the board of directors. “Today, I exit…
When the Global Business Travel Association’s board members this summer turned to a consultancy to assess the non-profit’s issues, they said reviewing governance was a top priority. Now, a board sub-committee and recruited volunteers will handle that task. Still, the consultancy produced some judgments and action items. For example, it determined that the board was…
It should have been a year in which corporate travel’s non-profits rose to the occasion to help a wrecked profession. Instead, ACTE is dead, and GBTA is on its knees. Potentially filling the gap is a group that started in March as an organic and grassroots “task force” — “like Woodstock,” as one participant put…
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