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Check-In with Suzanne:

Many are enjoying the last days of seasonal breaks, kids are headed back to school, and the last business quarter of 2021 is around the corner. And typically, the weeks ahead are busy ones for business travel, meetings and conferences. But thanks to the realities of the ongoing pandemic, again this year, the world looks different.   And that includes for…

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Last week I presented on the topic of business travel recovery at a Citi Client Conference for an audience of senior procurement professionals from FTSE200 organizations. Also presenting was Ulrika Rosén, Travel & Meeting Manager for Tetra Pak, a leading global food processing and packaging company who said her company hasn’t stopped traveling throughout the pandemic. She said the company has more compliant travelers now than they had pre-pandemic – because business travelers can’t travel on auto-pilot anymore.  That struck home. Even experienced travelers are having to adapt to the new reality – one of more complexity and…

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One visit to the GBTA Hub and you’ll see there’s a lot of member discussion around one topic in particular: sustainability. Sustainability has always been on the business travel industry’s agenda over the years. Now it’s taken on a new and timely significance, fueled by developments related to the COVID-19 pandemic.   A recent study by Deloitte says that “sustainability has moved…

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Hello everyone –   Nothing is more important in our industry than restarting business travel safely on an international basis. So, with the G7 face to face meeting concluding last weekend, I wanted to let you know of GBTA’s active pursuit these past several days to strongly encourage these and other EU governments to (a)…