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About GBTA Europe

GBTA in Europe is founded on its partnerships with the region’s leading business travel associations and the GBTA France chapter.
The network provides business travel and meeting professionals with a European remit with access to the best education and training, research, benchmarking tools and events. For advocacy, it means that GBTA is the voice of business travel in Europe.

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Make the business travel connections in Europe that matter most to you, your career, and your business. Join Today

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Expose your brand to the largest number of European business travel professionals. Learn About Sponsorship Opportunities

Professional Development

Power your career with business travel education and certifications to fuel recognition and career advancement. Learn more

Research

Access the world’s largest collection of business travel industry research, RFP templates, benchmarking tools and archived webinars. Learn more

News & Media

GBTA Welcomes the Return of International Travel... 9/8/21

GBTA Returns To In-Person Events As Demand... 9/7/21

Business Travel Continues Moving Forward But... 8/26/21

WINiT at Work + at Home 8/18/21

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Protecting Employees: Prevention Is... 8/11/21

WINiT by GBTA Ramps Up for the Future 8/9/21

GBTA Announces New Global Board of Directors 7/20/21

Business Travel Demand on a Steady Rise... 7/19/21

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Why GBTA Europe?

Committees

GBTA’s 13 committees set the direction of the business travel industry across major categories of interest.

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Valuable Connections

Join 9,000 + global members and connect via GBTA’s member-only networking and collaboration tool, GBTA Hub.

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Stay Current

Don’t fall behind — the business travel environment is constantly in flux. GBTA's resources keep you abreast of the latest news and research.

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GBTA Europe Events

Town Halls

oct

2021

GBTA Europe Town Hall: Navigating. Covid, Brexit and Getting Back to Business

Virtual

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NOV

2021

GBTA Europe Town Hall

Virtual

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Conferences

Dec

6-8

2021

GBTA Conference 2021 — Berlin in Partnership with VDR

Berlin, Germany

GBTA and VDR are bringing together our industry as part of the Ready. Safe. Travel. campaign.

Professional Development (forthcoming)

Webinars (forthcoming)

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GBTA Europe Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Is your organization looking to connect with European business travel and meetings management professionals?

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Sponsor GBTA Conference – Berlin in Partnership with VDR

Expose your brand to the largest number of European business travel professionals

Exhibit at GBTA Conference – Berlin in Partnership with VDR

For sponsorship and exhibition enquiries, please contact:

Catherine Logan
Regional Vice President - Europe
Email Catherine
Mobile: +44 (0) 7980 588 181

GBTA Europe Membership

Join GBTA today and take advantage of all of the local and global features and programmes that are customized to support you, your company and your career.

Your GBTA Europe membership entitles you to membership of both GBTA’s European network and the broader GBTA association - providing you with all the resources and benefits of membership. GBTA is a global association with travel professional members located around the world, and has been a leader in the business travel industry for over forty years.

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If you reside in a country where we currently do not have a partner association, you can join GBTA directly >

Join Through a Partner Association

If you reside where GBTA works with a partner association, you must be a member of the partner association to avail yourself of GBTA membership:

If you are already a member of one of the above partner associations, please proceed with registration for GBTA membership, which will either be complimentary or at a discounted rate for partner members. All memberships of partner associations are verified.

Leadership

The Advisory Board is a group of appointed buyer and supplier members of the network with the goal of creating membership benefit strategy, ensuring GBTA Europe remains led by buyers and monitoring that any activity undertaken by the network is in line with created strategy and objectives.

Mark Cuschieri
Europe, Regional Chair
Executive Director for Global Travel
UBS

Stefan Asmuss
Board Member
Global Travel Manager
SAP SE

Carol Fergus
Board Member
Global Travel Manager at Fidelity International

Stephen Hanton
Board Member
President International at Synergy Corporate Housing

Eija Kuttila
Board Member
Global Travel Manager at Telia Company

Jens Liltorp
Board Member
Global Category Manager, Travel and M&E
LEO Pharma

Catherine Logan
Europe GBTA Staff Delagate
Regional Vice President - EMEA
GBTA

David McNeill
Board Member
AVP Global Corporate Sales, EMEA, Enterprise Holdings

Bernd Schulz
Board Member
Director Business Development MEE
SAP Concur

Véra Strezyk
Board Member
Travel & MICE Buyer
CHANEL |Indirect Procurement Department

The Partnership Council is a group of single representatives from each of GBTA Europe’s partners. Its role is to guide the network to ensure it works in the interests of Europe’s regional partners and their members/subscribers, and to ensure the mutual co-operation of all partners for the benefit of all.

Anne Mette Berg Council Member General Manager DBTA – Danish Business Travel Association	Hans-Ingo Biehl Council Member Executive Director VDR - The German Business Travel Association	Scott Davies Council Member CEO ITM UK & Ireland Institute of Travel Management UK & Ireland
Lotten Fowler Council Member General Manager SBTA - Swedish Business Travel Association	Andrea Gruber Council Member President ABTA - Austrian Business Travel Association	Catherine Logan Europe GBTA Staff Delegate Regional Vice President - EMEA GBTA
Odete Pimenta da Silva Council Member Managing Director NATM - Netherlands Association for Travel Management	Jan Henrik Ulvatne Council Member General Manager NBTA - Norway Business Travel Association	Sari Viljamaa Council Member Managing Director FBTA - Finnish Business Travel Association

The European Advocacy Group is a group of single, buyer or association leadership representatives from each GBTA Europe Partner Association.

Our objectives are:

To be recognised by European Governments and the corporate travel industry as the voice of Corporate Travel & Meetings in Europe and the ‘Go To' organisation when a key issue is to be discussed, arises or requires comment.
To support partner association activity on national government basis.
To deliver additional value add to our buyer members by representing them and challenging any activity we believe is not in their interest.
To support and co-ordinate with the global efforts of GBTA on industry affairs activity.
To communicate our advocacy efforts and positions to our GBTA European members.

Anne Mette Berg Group Member DBTA – Danish Business Travel Association	Hans-Ingo Biehl Group Member Executive Director VDR - The German Business Travel Association	Chris Crowley Group Member Senior Vice President BCD Travel – on behalf of ITM Industry Affairs Group
Lotten Fowler Group Member General Manager SBTA - Swedish Business Travel Association	Andreas Gruber Group Member President ABTA - Austrian Business Travel Association	Catherine Logan Europe GBTA Staff Delagate Regional Vice President - EMEA GBTA
Sandy Moring Group Member Director of Education ITM – Institute of Travel Management UK & Ireland	Suzanne Neufang GBTA Staff CEO GBTA	Odete Pimenta da Silva Group Member Managing Director NATM - Netherlands Association for Travel Management
Stefan van Sliedregt Group Member Travel & Fleet Management Foot Locker Europe B.V.	Jan Henrik Ulvatne Group Member General Manager NBTA - Norway Business Travel Association	Stèphane Vallageas Group Member Chapter President – GBTA France Strategic Sourcing Manager Pitney Bowes
Sari Viljamaa Group Member Managing Director FBTA - Finnish Business Travel Association

Advisory Board