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…
The Global Business Travel Asssociation’s allied (supplier) members between Nov. 13 and Dec. 4 will vote online to fill the “allied at large” board seat vacated in June by Altour’s Doug Payne. The candidates — Bruce McIndoe of McIndoe Risk Advisory, Phillip Peña from Mandarin Oriental Group and SAP Concur’s Bernd Schulz — are running…
This autumn isn’t panning out the way many of us expected. Business travel hasn’t bounced back, and in-person industry education is non-existent. Fortunately, virtual forums are standing in. The batch of insights below came from online events conducted by Deem (Sept. 24), the Institute of Travel Management (Sept. 29), and Atlas Travel, Cornell University and…
Industry veterans Mike McCormick and Ed Silver plan Tuesday to launch an advocacy group to help facilitate business travel’s return. “When I look at all the collective industry recovery efforts to date, I see so much well-intentioned activity,” McCormick said in a video posted online. “Unfortunately, I think we would all agree that we are…
GBTA a few months ago attempted to create an industry consensus behind rolling over 2020 hotel rates to 2021. Hotel companies were for it. They simultaneously pushed dynamic discounts off best available market rates to provide some protection for buyers. Some clients accepted that and ditched the RFP process for this year while others did…
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…
Already a profession with a varied set of responsibilities, corporate travel management evolved with the pandemic’s onset. Creating or maintaining relationships with other internal departments and external suppliers is more important than ever. Newfound skills and focus areas likely will remain part of the remit. Travel managers and buyers speaking on recent industry webinars discussed…
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