Alexandria, Va. – Amid a federal government solicitation process putting the management of upwards of $4 billion in annual travel spending up for grabs, the National Defense Transportation Association’s GovTravels conference attracted a record 1,100 attendees here last month. The U.S. General Services Administration has begun collecting information from interested travel and expense tech vendors…
Sustainability regulations impacting corporate travel management are expanding apace even as some such public policy initiatives face new legal and political challenges. Australian lawmakers last month introduced draft regulations that would begin phasing in mandated climate-related corporate disclosures as soon as July 1. These include business travel and employee commuting activity, part of the Scope…
Three Democratic U.S. senators on July 27 introduced legislation that would levy surcharges of up to $600 per flight on first and business class airline passengers. Meant to “curb wasteful greenhouse gas emissions,” fund climate projects and motivate airlines to fly cleaner, the program also would charge private jet users. Even if it advances through…
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…
Travel management company owners who sell their companies in the near future will be fortunate to get half of what they could have earned pre-Covid, according to experts in consolidation speaking last week during a Teleconference call. While the extent to which clients stick around could be a bigger determinant than in the past on…
[UPDATE, April 27, 2021: The U.S. Government Accountability Office on April 15 denied a CWT protest of the decision.] The massive continental U.S. portion of the U.S. Army’s travel program will move to BCD Travel from CWT if the latter’s protest of an award completed in September fails. CW Government Travel Inc., doing business as…
Tickets issued by corporate travel agencies last week were down 85.7 percent year over year. It was a slight improvement on the week before, continuing a modest trend. Speaking last week during a Teleconference call, ARC president and CEO Mike Premo shared his “marketing spin” that corporate travel grew by more than 50 percent during…
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