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Business Travel Conferences You Can't Miss in 2024: Where to Meet, Learn, and Network

In a dynamic industry like business travel, staying ahead of the curve is crucial. Fortunately, the calendar is brimming with conferences and events that provide a platform to absorb the latest trends and insights from industry leaders.

We've curated a list of key travel conferences in 2024, ensuring you stay informed and connected throughout the year.

The PA Show

Dates: February 28-29, 2024

Location: ExCeL, London

Gathering thousands from the executive assistant community, The PA Show is a powerhouse of networking and discovery. With over 2,700 attendees in 2023, it promises to showcase 100+ top suppliers and services, empowering professionals to excel in their roles.

The ITM Conference

Dates: April 24-25, 2024

Location: Hilton Metropole, Brighton

The ITM Annual Conference consists of two days and three evenings to network and collaborate with business travel buyers, including a Gala dinner. With 500 delegates attending the event, the ITM Conference is a great place to learn about new solutions directly from suppliers.

ProcureCon Travel

Date s: June 3-4, 2024

Location: Denver Marriott Tech Center, Colorado

This is the leading travel procurement conference designed to help travel sourcing executives better manage their corporate travel program and spend. The event consists of interactive workshops, innovative keynotes, and intimate networking sessions. With 200+ delegates and 100+ companies in attendance in 2023, it's a pivotal event for managing corporate travel programs and expenditures.

Business Travel Show

Dates: June 19-20, 2024

Now in its 29th year, Business Travel Show Europe (BTS) has firmly cemented its position as the largest exhibition and conference for the European corporate travel community.

Facilitating supplier-buyer connections through education, meetings, and networking, it drew over 450 senior travel buyers in 2023.

GBTA Convention

Date s: July 22-24, 2024

Location: Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta

The Global Business Travel Association ( GBTA ) Convention is the world’s premier business travel and meetings trade organization. The annual event is a haven for exhibitors to showcase their latest offerings to the 600 buyers in attendance.

The PA Show Autumn

Dates: October 15, 2024

Location: Old Billingsgate, London

A more intimate sequel to its February edition, The PA Show Autumn at Old Billingsgate focuses on networking and content. Tailored to a smaller audience, it's designed to help you connect, learn, and discover what's new for your community.

Dates: October 8-10, 2024

Location: Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

IMEX is where the global business events community comes together. Attended by meeting planners, event agency heads, association executives, incentive travel buyers, and in-house event experts, the 2023 edition attracted over 5,000 buyers and 15,000 participants.

ITM Autumn Conference

Date s: October 17, 2024

Location: Royal National Hotel, London

Throughout this one-day intimate conference, there are several opportunities to network with business travel buyers in between education sessions, exhibiting hours and evening drinks.

GBTA + VDR Europe Conference

Date s:  November 4-6, 2024

Location: Copenhagen

Europe's largest conference for business travel and meetings management professionals, the GBTA + VDR Europe Conference converges community, learning, advocacy, and more. With over 275 buyers in 2023, it's an essential event for the European business travel industry.

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• Employee travel is one of the greatest contributors to corporate carbon emissions, yet research shows most firms aren’t taking real action to make such programs any greener.
• For many companies, sustainability programmes just feel too hard to do, yet while sustainability is a commitment, it’s not as time or cost prohibitive as it used to be.
• To truly begin mitigating our carbon footprint in transport, sustainable behaviour needs to be widely adopted in organizations and deeply integrated into how we work and travel.

When we talk about why the transportation sector generates such a prominent share of greenhouse gas emissions , we tend to point to its most conspicuous villains: private jets, Big Oil, gridlock. To combat climate change, we encourage consumers to carpool and urge our legislators to invest in clean energy. These are commendable efforts, to be clear. But the discussion often leaves one of the biggest climate actors on the table.

Employee travel is one of the business world’s greatest contributors to carbon emissions. That’s due to a few factors. One, because of the prevalence of business travel by air and car, especially in countries where rail travel isn’t an option. Two, because of the CO2 footprint of first-class seats (about four times as much as economy). Three, because of the sheer number of flights taken by employees compared to your average vacationer. For example, in 2019 one global software company racked up 146,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions – akin to the amount produced by 17,500 US homes over the course of a year.

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When the pandemic postponed commuting and travel, total global carbon emissions dropped 7% . Of course, it’s easy to reduce your footprint when there’s no reason to leave the home office. Now, with all the buzz around the reopening of travel corridors and return to the office, the question becomes: what sustainability lessons from the global shutdown will companies take with them?

A report conducted by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) found that companies say that they want to make their travel programmes more sustainable post-pandemic. Over the last year and a half, they’ve been under increasing pressure from investors to report on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, and from consumers wanting to use more environmentally-friendly modes of transportation.

However, the report also shows that most companies aren’t taking any real action to make their travel programmes any greener.

Business travel 2.0 misses an opportunity

According to GBTA research on travel managers in the US and Canada, about half of companies expect to focus more on the social and environmental impact of their business travel programmes post-pandemic.

Even so, only one in four organizations consider their “carbon footprint” to be a top priority. It pales in comparison to other return-to-travel concerns, such as cost control and duty of care.

On top of – and perhaps because of – these competing priorities, companies struggle to implement meaningful sustainability initiatives. While six out of 10 companies have a sustainability policy, only three out of 10 have a policy that includes business travel.

The rare programmes that do exist really only go as far as to measure the carbon footprint of travel (the most popular effort, included in 58% of policies). Less than a quarter of companies have rolled out any other initiative, including behaviour-based change. For example, 19% mandate or encourage sustainable transportation or accommodation options, and a mere 7% incentivise employees to choose these options.

Few companies (22%) take a vendor’s sustainability posture into consideration when making purchase decisions. Even if they did, it would be unlikely to influence them. The vast majority of organizations – 85% – are unwilling to pay more to work with a sustainable vendor, and just 2% are willing to pay more than a 10% price premium for more sustainable travel options.

Corporate programmes at a crossroads

One of the most striking takeaways from this research is the balance of antithetical priorities. Today’s organizations want to reduce their environmental impact. Yet they’re unwilling to invest in partnerships with greener travel providers. They have sustainability policies, but they don’t focus on the kind of company-wide behavioural changes that would have a real impact. They’re worried about cost control, yet seem to overlook the rising price of carbon, both in terms of oil prices and carbon offsets .

This contradiction arises because companies have viewed environmental factors as a separate box they can tick once they’ve hit other corporate targets. The more sustainability is compartmentalised, the easier it is to push these efforts until next quarter… or indefinitely.

Perhaps the simplest conclusion I can draw is that for many companies, sustainability programmes just feel too hard to implement. Too expensive. Too involving. With too many competing factors.

Sustainability is a commitment, to be sure, but it’s not as time or cost prohibitive as it used to be. Every organization, large and small, can introduce behavioural measures that make climate action a part of their culture. For instance, you can give your employees individual or team “carbon” budgets, pointing them to carbon-neutral transportation options once they’ve used up their allowance. You might set a rule that no one jumps on a plane for a single meeting – that kind of initiative costs zero dollars to implement, and will likely end up saving a lot of travel time and money. If you do have room in your budget, consider shifting a portion of your travel spend to green businesses and incentivising employees to patronise sustainable vendors.

As other sectors proceed to decarbonize, the aviation sector could account for a much higher share of global greenhouse gas emissions by mid-century than its 2%-3% share today.

Sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) can reduce the life-cycle carbon footprint of aviation fuel by up to 80%, but they currently make up less than 0.1% of total aviation fuel consumption. Enabling a shift from fossil fuels to SAFs will require a significant increase in production, which is a costly investment.

The Forum’s Clean Skies for Tomorrow (CST) Coalition is a global initiative driving the transition to sustainable aviation fuels as part of the aviation industry’s ambitious efforts to achieve carbon-neutral flying.

The coalition brings together government leaders, climate experts and CEOs from aviation, energy, finance and other sectors who agree on the urgent need to help the aviation industry reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.

The coalition aims to advance the commercial scale of viable production of sustainable low-carbon aviation fuels (bio and synthetic) for broad adoption in the industry by 2030. Initiatives include a mechanism for aggregating demand for carbon-neutral flying, a co-investment vehicle and geographically specific value-chain industry blueprints.

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Once you’ve successfully transformed sustainable behaviour into habit, then you can begin to evolve your programme into a formal policy with more advanced initiatives — such as using carbon analysis to make more strategic travel decisions.

As business trips return, we have the opportunity to be more intentional about how and why we travel. Now is the perfect moment to reassess our travel programmes for environmental impact. When the economy reopens fully, many companies will want to underline their commitment to customers with face-to-face time, and employees will be hungry to see their favourite co-workers. There’s no question that in-person meetings remain critical to company culture and the nature of good business. The question is whether we will decide to re-enter the world in a more responsible way.

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A single company deciding to launch a sustainable business travel programme won’t solve climate change. Neither will the occasional executive who switches to flying economy. But both of these examples would mark progress.

For the corporate world, “doing our part” to combat climate change will require a culture shift. To truly begin mitigating our carbon footprint on the transportation sector, sustainable behaviour needs to be widely adopted among organizations and deeply integrated into the way we work and travel. At this moment in history, with business travel at a global reset point, we have a tremendous opportunity to pave the road ahead.

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5 Fastest-Growing U.S. Business Travel Markets: Amex Hotel Data

Sean O'Neill , Skift

July 23rd, 2024 at 5:15 PM EDT

Business travel is back, but Princeton, N.J., led U.S. markets in doing better than others, according to American Express.

Sean O'Neill

Five U.S. markets have recently seen the fastest growth in business travel spending, according to American Express data.

American Express looked at the recent growth in its commercial customer hotel transactions and, on Skift’s request, ranked the five fastest-growing U.S. markets for business travel. Amex compared the year between April 2023 and March 2024 with the same time span a year earlier.

The trending destinations, highest to lowest, were: Princeton, NJ; Durham, N.C.; Southwest Michigan; Honolulu; and Sacramento.

Hotels in these five cities are gaining popularity with business travelers.

Princeton, New Jersey

This town is more than just home to Princeton University. Life sciences are important, with international biotechnology company Genmab about to double its footprint by 135,000 square feet. Princeton is only a 12-minute drive from the North American base of Novo Nordisk, maker of the drug sensations Wegovy and Ozempic.

Princeton also aspires to be a hub for artificial intelligence (AI) research . Some financial help from the state of New Jersey may help bring university researchers and private companies together to refine the technology and find creative applications.

Durham, North Carolina

In April, Deputy Mayor Leo Wiliams said, “ Durham is dope .” That certainly seems true in terms of economic development. The home of Duke University has recently broadened its economic base with various businesses capitalizing on emerging fields. This spring, the federal government awarded $32 million in credit to support small businesses .

Honolulu, Hawaii

Hotel prices in Honolulu in May had risen 34% compared to 2019, according to the Hawaii Tourism Authority. The city’s event facilities can host business conferences, trade shows, and team meetings in an attractive location for team building and sales conversations.

Southwest Michigan

Kalamazoo and Grand Rapids together have a strong presence in industries like healthcare, education, manufacturing, and technology. Michigan has emerged as a magnet for the relocation of corporate headquarters, such as tech firm KLA and HOLO Footwear.

Sacramento, California

California’s capital has drawn growth in the semiconductor and life sciences segments, diversifying beyond the state government as an economic driver. Sacramento International Airport will start a $1.3 billion expansion later this year.

Airlines Sector Stock Index Performance Year-to-Date

What am I looking at?  The performance of airline sector stocks within the  ST200 . The index includes companies publicly traded across global markets including network carriers, low-cost carriers, and other related companies.

The Skift Travel 200 (ST200)  combines the financial performance of nearly 200 travel companies worth more than a trillion dollars into a single number.  See more airlines sector financial performance . 

Read the full methodology behind the Skift Travel 200.

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Photo credit: The Nassau Inn has been the epicenter of commerce and trade in Princeton, NJ, for centuries. VisitNJ.com

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Congress Leaders Agree to Form Task Force on Trump Assassination Attempt

The top Republican and Democrat in the House have struck a deal to form a bipartisan task force to lead congressional investigations into the attempted assassination of Donald J. Trump.

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By Luke Broadwater

Reporting from Washington

Speaker Mike Johnson and Representative Hakeem Jeffries, the House minority leader, have struck a deal to form a bipartisan task force to lead the congressional investigations into the attempted assassination of former President Donald J. Trump.

In a joint statement on Tuesday, the two leaders announced the task force, which would be led by Republicans who control the House but would be nearly evenly divided between them and Democrats.

“The security failures that allowed an assassination attempt on Donald Trump’s life are shocking,” Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, and Mr. Jeffries, of New York, said in the statement. “The task force will be empowered with subpoena authority and will move quickly to find the facts, ensure accountability, and make certain such failures never happen again.”

The task force, which they said was being stood up “in response to bipartisan demands for answers,” is to be made up of seven Republicans and six Democrats. That is an uncommonly narrow split in the House, where the majority usually gives itself a substantial partisan edge on committees to ensure that its side maintains a firm grip on power.

When the Democratic-led House formed a select committee to investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, for instance, Democrats initially gave themselves eight seats and Republicans five — though the G.O.P. largely boycotted that panel, and only two Republicans ended up serving on it.

Legislation to form the task force to investigate the Trump assassination attempt is expected to be approved by the full House on Wednesday. The goal would be to detail exactly what went wrong during the attempted assassination, ensure accountability and prevent such a failure from happening again.

At the completion of its investigation, the task force would recommend reforms to government agencies and potentially legislation.

The investigation of the assassination attempt has become a rare issue of bipartisan agreement on Capitol Hill. On Monday, the top Republican and Democrat on the Oversight Committee sent a joint letter calling on the Secret Service director to resign after a hearing in which members of both parties were harshly critical of her leadership. The director, Kimberly A. Cheatle, announced her resignation Tuesday morning, and President Biden accepted it.

Luke Broadwater covers Congress with a focus on congressional investigations. More about Luke Broadwater

Our Coverage of the Trump Rally Shooting

The Investigation : F.B.I. officials told Congress that the 20-year-old gunman who tried to kill Donald Trump used his cellphone and other devices to search for images of Trump and President Biden .

Congress Forms Task Force : The top Republican and Democrat in the House have struck a deal to form a bipartisan task force  to lead congressional investigations into the attempted assassination.

Security Blind Spots : Even as investigators continue to examine what happened at the Trump rally, it is already clear that there were multiple missed opportunities to stop the gunman  before the situation turned deadly.

The Gunman : In interviews, former classmates of the suspect described him as intelligent but solitary , someone who tried to avoid teasing by fellow students.

Secret Service Director : Kimberly Cheatle  returned in 2022 to lead the agency she had served for nearly 30 years. Before her resignation, she faced grueling questions from lawmakers  about the adequacy of her agency’s preparation .

3 rd Annual Kingdom Business Luxury Travel Congress

25th-26th september 2024, crowne plaza riyadh rdc hotel & convention, ksa, 25th-26th september 2024, crowne plaza riyadh rdc hotel & convention, ksa, connecting the world to saudi arabian buyers, 2023 speakers, sulaiman al romi, waleed bin huzaim, ahmed al idrissi, waleed ibrahim abdelaziz al-sobaei, aurangzeb baig, corina goetz, manahil al mohaimeed, about kingdom business luxury travel (kblt) congress.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, while being the largest economy within the Middle East and North Africa, is one of the most extraordinary and diverse destinations in the world and is undergoing a massive economic transformation in lines with the Saudi vision 2030.

QnA International brings to you the premier edition of the Kingdom Business & Luxury Travel (KBLT) Congress that is a one-of-a-kind business by-invitation closed-door business platform that aims to ‘Connect the World to Saudi Arabian Buyers’, and will shape the future of the travel & tourism industry in the Kingdom.

With the expectation of the Saudi outbound travel market to be more than USD 43 billion by the end of 2025, the KBLT Congress will will facilitate partnerships and connect global suppliers of the travel and tourism industry such as Hotels & Resorts, Destinations, Concierge Companies, Cruise Liners, Airlines and Air Charter Companies and other Travel Solution Companies from across the world, with handpicked buyers- decision makers for Outbound Corporate, Business and Luxury Travel from across the Kingdom.

Why Sponsor

The average Saudi traveller spends 6.5 times more than the world average traveller

Pre-scheduled Appointments

Pre-scheduled appointments with handpicked buyers gives you an opportunity to discuss your services with buyers who are actively seeking new destinations and experiences

B2B Environment

Meet one-on-one, exchange business terms and seal deals with the biggest companies in the Kingdom. KBLT Congress will ensure you get what's important for you and your business.

Close Deals

Shorten your sales cycle by meeting with 80 of the Kingdom's meeting planners and luxury outbound travel agents all over a two day period under one roof.

Stay Ahead of the Curve

KBLT Congress will help you stay ahead of the curve. Open discussions and networking time gives the Saudi buyers and global destination suppliers the opportunity to discuss common problems and discover new and innovative solutions.

Extensive Marketing & PR Plan

Our marketing campaign covers every strategic medium (Online, Press releases, Email marketing, Direct mails, fax, telemarketing) to make sure you get the maximum exposure prior, during and post event

Ultimate Networking Opportunities

Apart from the one-to-one meetings, our networking opportunities include a networking reception, roundtable meetings and brainstorming sessions in an energetic and vibrant environment with the motive of pushing forward sales

Affluent Market

Gain access to the high spending buyers for corporate, business and luxury travel from across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Pre Qualified Delegates

Unlike a large scale trade shows and expos , at KBLT Congress you will only meet delegates who are extensively pre-qualified and call the shots for Corporate, business and luxury travel activities for their organization

Prior Notification of Attendees

Two weeks prior to the congress, you will receive the full list of the pre-qualified Saudi buyers along with details for their preferred destinations, their budgets and group sizes.

Who will attend

• Outbound Luxury Travel Management Companies
• Outbound Travel Agents from Saudi Arabia
• Saudi Commerce Associations
• Saudi Health Associations
• Saudi Religious Associations
• Saudi Arabian Media Companies

The US Navy needs to find more ships it can load up with missiles amid shipbuilding delays, Congress says with eyes on China

• Congress ordered the US Navy to look into new ships and weapons platforms amid shipbuilding delays.
• The requested study is in direct response to the delays of a new frigate class.
• Lawmakers are concerned the US Navy is at risk of being unable to China in the Indo-Pacific region. 

Congress has requested that the US Navy conduct a study looking into other ships it can arm with missiles given the pressing need to maintain US naval power amid ongoing shipbuilding delays.

The potential short-term solutions, it said, are key to keeping up US strength in the Indo-Pacific region, especially as China continues building up its naval forces .

In a report accompanying a new draft of the annual defense policy bill for the 2025 fiscal year, the US Senate Armed Services Committee wrote that it was "concerned with the number of Navy battle force ships" and vertical launch platforms for missiles over the next two years.

"Given the ongoing naval buildup by the People's Republic of China, the committee believes these projected declines increase risk to US forces in the US Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility," lawmakers wrote.

The committee report added that it doesn't believe the Navy is adequately preparing to meet requirements for those capabilities in the near-term.

The request comes in response to delays on the first new Constellation-class guided missile frigate, which won't be delivered until at least 2029, three years behind schedule, per a Navy report earlier this year. The second ship in the class is also delayed.

Congress' push for short-term naval combat solutions is also linked to the slow procurement of new large, unmanned surface vessels, which is not expected to begin until 2027.

With this in mind, "the committee believes the US Navy needs to focus more on supplementary options for increasing ship numbers and missile-launching capacity in the nearer term."

By April 2025, Congress expects the Navy to pursue a number of solutions, including a crewed version of the LUSV, more missile-launching capacity, "foreign, commercial, or US government ship designs" that could be adapted for the Navy, and existing Navy platforms "that could be quickly modified into missile-firing ships through the addition of VLS (vertical launch system), bolt-on, or containers missile launchers."

In its report, the committee acknowledged its concerns that these near-term solutions are needed to keep the US Navy in fighting shape should conflict in the Indo-Pacific region arise, especially considering the massive naval buildup seen in China .

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Back in April, a 45-day review showed major delays for most of the Navy's big shipbuilding projects , including its Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine program, a top priority for the Department of Defense . Due to plans to retire previous ships, the delay will likely keep the Navy from meeting its obligation of having 10 ballistic missile submarines ready to deploy at all times. But this isn't the only problem.

Other ships, like the Navy's next Ford-class carrier, are also notably delayed. At the time of the review, Navy officials attributed the issues to the lingering effects of COVID-19 on the workforce and supply chain, though some issues have long been around.

Beyond the Navy's shipbuilding woes, other US military deficiencies have prompted lawmakers and other national leaders to raise concerns about how the Pentagon is prioritizing its military capacity in the Pacific in order to counter and deter China. In May, 13 members of Congress wrote to Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall and Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro about the glaring vulnerabilities of US Pacific air bases and aircraft in the face of a missile barrage from China, for example.

With China's current missile strike capabilities," the lawmakers wrote in their letter, " China can attack all US bases in the region , targeting US service members from Okinawa to those on US territories of Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands."

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