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Business travel leaders and professionals are under constant pressure to understand the evolving industry landscape, seize the next great opportunity, and stay ahead amid continued disruption. To succeed, you need to make informed, strategic decisions and act quickly, and it’s essential to have access to timely and reliable industry analysis, trends, and peer insights.

Throughout its 50+ year history, GBTA has been at the forefront of bringing to light key trends and topics shaping the industry, enabling business travel professionals to access timely context, validate their thinking, and confidently move ahead. GBTA Research is widely quoted and covered in major mainstream and business travel news outlets and is also frequently referenced by global policymakers, academics and major consultancies. From comprehensive reports and forecasts to issues-focused polls, education sessions, webinars, podcasts, and more, our research team is focused on serving GBTA members and the industry at large with answering pressing questions and generating a-ha! moments.

That’s the power of GBTA Research today.

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TRM in a Post-COVID World (2024) [Webinar On-Demand]

Learn why Travel Risk Management (TRM) remains a priority in the business travel industry.

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2023 Global Business Travel Index™ Outlook (BTI)

GBTA’s exclusive five-year forecast of global business travel spending, growth and other trends covering 72 countries across 42 industries.

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GBTA Business Travel Industry Outlook Poll

Discover the key findings on what’s ahead for the industry in the latest January 2024 poll edition.

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“52% of travel managers say Travel Risk Management (TRM) is a greater priority post-COVID but only 30% say their company’s budget for TRM has increased.”
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Ground Transportation in Europe [Report]

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What Travel Managers Agree and Disagree on [Webinar]

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The Current State of Business Travel: Business Traveler and Travel Manager Priorities [Report]

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“We partnered with GBTA to leverage the unique opportunity to understand the evolution of travel managers and how they fit into the dynamic corporate travel structure today, and in the years ahead.”
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Senior Vice President of Sales, Cvent
“This is the second time we’ve collaborated with GBTA to survey business travel managers and travelers to stay at the forefront of ground transportation trends and deliver industry leading insights to the business travel community. These insights are not only essential to help our customers and business travel managers across Europe to manage the strategies, it helps us at FREENOW to deliver the solutions our customers need.”
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Director B2B Operations, FREENOW for Business
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VP Partnerships, Spotnana

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