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Hotel rfps, accessible travel and travel policies discussed at latest buyer knowledge exchange.
A poll of travel managers attending ITM’s latest Buyer Knowledge Exchange (BKE) showed that 85% are planning to conduct their hotel RFP on an annual basis. | read more >
Discussing the ‘S’ in ESG - ITM Webinar Provides Thought-Provoking Guidance on How to Bring Social Considerations into Travel Programmes
The social aspect of ESG focuses on how a business impact wider society and workplace culture. But how can travel buyers bring this aspect into their travel programmes? Wha | read more >
ITM 2024 Achievement Awards: Celebrating Excellence in the Business Travel Industry
The ITM 2024 Achievement Awards ceremony, held last Friday, was a resounding success, honouring the brightest talents and most innovative teams in the business travel industry. | read more >
ITM Announces New Board Directors at AGM
The Institute of Travel Management (ITM) has announced the appointment of four new Board Directors today at the association’s Annual General Meeting | read more >
How to Make Travel Programmes Accessible? ITM Webinar Provides Valuable Advice to Buyers
Travel managers are increasingly recognising the need to ensure accessibility for travellers with visible and hidden needs and disabilities is fully considered across their travel programmes. | read more >
Accessible travel considerations and challenges discussed at latest Buyer Knowledge Exchange
A poll of travel managers attending ITM’s latest Buyer Knowledge Exchange (BKE) session revealed that the biggest challenge to embedding accessibility practices within travel programmes is access to traveller’s individual requirements. | read more >
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Key Travel has been a member of the BTA (formerly GTMC) since 2003. John O'Sullivan, our Managing Director UK and Europe, is on the Board. The BTA is the representative association for the business travel community and travel management companies, with their TMC members accounting for over ninety percent of all managed travel booked in the UK.
Working with their members and industry partners, the BTA raises the profile of the vital role business travel plays in the broader economy. This includes facilitating leading industry events, commissioning surveys and research and lobbying organisations that can impact and influence our industry; including suppliers, UK Government and EU legislators.
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BTA Good Business Pays - Why prompt payment is so important
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BTA Autumn Conference 2024. The BTA the Autumn Conference 2024 will be held in Gibraltar! We are looking forward to welcoming our guests across the travel industry from September 29th to October 2nd. For the first time our delegates will get a three-night stay in the Iberian Peninsula at no extra cost. This gives you more time to explore ...
The BTA is the representative association for the business travel community and travel management companies, with our TMC members accounting for over ninety percent of all managed travel booked in the UK. Working with our members and industry partners, we raise the profile of the vital role business travel plays in the broader economy. This ...
BTA Members. The BTA is the trusted voice of the Business Travel Industry. We create opportunities for the industry to engage and evolve through, conferences, industry debates, education sessions, networking opportunities and people engagement. We aim to be relevant to every level of employee within the business travel industry operating in a ...
Virtual confidential forum for buyers to meet, share challenges, and validate their approach and checklist considerations. Each month 25+ like-minded buyers meet to discuss their approach to key travel management topics. This is an opportunity for you to seek advice, gain a different perspective and raise concerns.
GBTA BTI™ is an exhaustive forecast of business travel preferences, behaviors, spending, and growth covering 72 countries and 44 industries. It includes survey data and analysis from 4,100 business travelers across five global regions. Reserve your spot at our one-day premier business travel industry educational and networking events, taking ...
The Business Travel Association (BTA) is set to join the Tourism Alliance in 2024 to boost the representation of the UK's corporate travel sector, facilitating stronger connections with the government and redefining industry standards.
The BTA is the representative association for the business travel community and travel management companies, with our TMC members accounting for over ninety per cent of all managed travel booked in the UK. Our industry partners are all influential travel industry suppliers including airlines, airports, accommodation companies, rail, car rental, technology, payment and ancillary product
European Business Travel Spending is Forecast to Reach $450 Billion USD by 2027. November 15, 2023. Expected spending on business travel across Europe continues to steadily increase due to pent-up demand, hybrid work environments, the return of travel and meetings and more stable economic conditions, according to GBTA Business Travel Index ...
The BTA is the representative association for the business travel community and travel management companies, with our TMC members accounting for over ninety percent of all managed travel booked in the UK. Working with our members and industry partners, we raise the profile of the vital role business travel plays in the broader economy.
The BTA Team. The BTA is the association for the business travel community with an administrative team running the day-to-day activities and implementing the decisions of the Executive Board. If you would like to get in contact with one of the management team, please see the contact details below.
Business Travel Association (BTA) Key Travel has been a member of the BTA (formerly GTMC) since 2003. John O'Sullivan, our Managing Director UK and Europe, is on the Board. The BTA is the representative association for the business travel community and travel management companies, with their TMC members accounting for over ninety percent of all ...
About GBTA. The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is the world's premier business travel and meetings trade organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area serving stakeholders across six continents. GBTA and its 8,000+ members represent and advocate for the $1,357 trillion global business travel and meetings industry.
We're ABTA. A trade association for UK travel agents, tour operators and the wider travel industry. For over 70 years we've helped our members run successful travel businesses, and provided travellers with advice, guidance and support. We work closely with our members to help raise and maintain standards and build a more sustainable travel ...
The UK's business travel sector has seen its strongest week since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020. New figures from the Business Travel Association (BTA) showed the final week of February was the best seven-day period for the industry in nearly two years, when compared to the same week in 2019.
The Business Travel Association (BTA) provides an extensive selection of best practice guides that cover a wide range of topics. These guides serve as valuable resources for our members and partners as well as for their customers, who include business travel buyers and travellers. ... "The BTA provides the ideal opportunity to engage with the ...
MARK CUSCHIERI. Great expectations Expect big things from the Global Business Travel Association in 2024 under the leadership of UK-based travel manager Mark Cuschieri who was elected as the association's new board president in August 2023.Cuschieri, who is head of global travel management at Swiss bank UBS, also made the Hotlist in 2023 after becoming the first GBTA vice president based ...
June 5, 2024. GBTA's study reveals for every 1% of growth in business travel, the U.S. economy sees nearly 60,000 jobs, $2.9 billion in paid wages, $1.2 billion in tax revenue and $4.8 billion in new GDP The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) today unveiled a new study, the "GBTA U.S. Economic Impact Study: Business Travel's Impact ...
As a BTA Partner, you gain: Community & Collaboration: We're more than a networking association; we're the heart of the business travel ecosystem, shaping and enhancing the industry through discussions, working groups, and collaborations. Thought Leadership: We address industry challenges, fostering continuous improvement and best practices.
This is according to the latest Business Travel Outlook Poll conducted by the Global Business Travel Association featuring insights from global travel buyers, suppliers and other industry stakeholders on the current state of business travel and expectations for 2024. Over 700 business travel professionals from 41 countries participated in this ...
ns to do so. Of the companies that purchase SAF certificates, 84% do so thro. h airlines. The median amount spent by these buyers on SAF certificates is $175,000 annually (with a broad range in responses - 13% of these companies are spending less than $25,000 per year, while 17% are spending more than $1 milli.
The Future of Business Travel. In this paper, we have used global data. from Amadeus coupled with interviews with. eight of our board members to look at how. travel can recover in 2021. March 2021. "The BTA provides the ideal opportunity to engage with the most significant TMC's in the UK. Using the various events, business sessions, meeting ...
In 2009, the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) embraced this challenge by producing the first-ever study of global business travel activity. The result was an exhaustive analysis of business travel spending, productivity, and growth — the GBTA Business Travel Index (BTI™) — that currently covers 72 countries across 44 industries ...