The Travel Again initiative is gaining steam as travel industry associations endorse its framework for recovery. Meeting Professionals International in February and the National Limousine Association this month announced support for the framework’s priorities and recommendations. On Tuesday, leaders from Travel Again and 18 other industry groups including GBTA held a roundtable discussion to keep…
“Well said, Mike.” Suzanne Neufang’s short comment was one of a few dozen posted on LinkedIn in June 2020 responding to an explanation by SAP Concur executive Mike Koetting of why the company terminated its relationship with the Global Business Travel Association. Koetting posted a little over a week after The Company Dime published a…
The corporate travel profession’s only U.S.-based, dues-generating membership association is hoping to announce its new executive director soon. Filling the role on an interim basis, initially through the end of 2020, Dave Hilfman now likely will stay on the job through the end of this month. The new full-time, professional leader of GBTA’s paid staff…
In January and February of last year, Tripbam clients made about 80 percent more bookings with Marriott properties than they did with Hilton brands. In April, Hilton surpassed Marriott as the top hospitality company booked in the United States by corporations that use Tripbam, and it’s been that way ever since. During January 2021, Tripbam…
Pundits are kicking around when and whether business travel will recover, but the pivotal question is how. It’s all about cooperation. Teamwork has had mixed success this year at the industry and federal levels. Days away from the psychological clean slate of 2021, Mike McCormick’s Travel Again released a framework for recovery. Backed by the…
The Global Business Travel Association in 2019 generated record revenue in excess of $26 million, up 13 percent year over year. Expenses increased too, though at a lower rate, producing a net result of about $2.4 million. That nearly doubled the association’s coffers to more than $5 million coming into 2020. GBTA shared the financial…
GBTA announced it completed its acquisition of certain assets of the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, which filed for Chapter 7 in June. The U.S. Bankruptcy Court overseeing ACTE’s case approved the sale on Nov. 16. GBTA appointed to its board two former ACTE board members: American Airlines chief customer officer Alison Taylor and Tesla…
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