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The Pittsburgh Business Travel Association Is Still An Island

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…

Mark Meader
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Looking To Meet An Acute Need, ASTA Creates Corporate Travel Agent Training

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…

GBTA governance vs. management

GBTA President Resigns As Association Prepares To Put Fundamental Changes To Members

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…

GBTA governance review

GBTA Scores Poorly In Consultancy Review As Reinvention Plods Along

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…

TAMS

TAMS Seeks Non-Profit Status At Turbulent Time For Industry Associations

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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