Recent coverage in mainstream publications gave the casual observer the impression that business travel might be dead. Here’s a sub-headline in Fortune this month: “The end of business travel?” The U.K.’s Telegraph in January asked, “Have Covid and Zoom killed business travel?” A BBC News podcast this week followed with, “Could the all-expenses-paid business trip…
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…
[UPDATE, June 15, 2020: Alaska Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Hawaiian Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Southwest Airlines and United Airlines announced that violations of their face covering policies could result in suspension of flying privileges.] A Delta executive during a Wednesday webinar suggested that if a passenger tries to show their face at the wrong…
Three in four European corporate travel decision makers polled early this year agreed that changes were needed to address sustainability in business travel, but only 17 percent were confident in pulling that off. “The apparent disconnect really tells quite a simple story,” according to Jim McClelland, a sustainability expert and author at publisher Raconteur, which…
[UPDATE, March 7, 2018: We published new information about this topic here.] Metropolitan State University of Denver next year will offer corporate travel management education, a scarcity at the collegiate level. By comparison, those interested in becoming a travel agent can find training in several places. Plenty of tourism and hospitality schools offer other kinds of travel-related…
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