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Redefining Corporate Travel and Hospitality Through Sustainability
(SOURCE: HOSPITALITY NET, GBTA FEATURED)

As we start 2025, corporate travel and business events reactivate. There is a pressing need for the business event industry to adapt to a landscape evolving with digitalization, sustainable regulations, and changing societal values. Business events significantly contribute to the visitor economy, enhancing job creation, attracting talent and investment, and promoting cultural heritage among visitors and locals. They also play a crucial role in breaking seasonality, maintaining and developing local infrastructure, boosting innovation, and supporting local events suppliers' growth, including hotels. Hotels face the challenge of meeting extensive data requirements specified in Requests for Proposals (RFPs). Associations such as GBTA have standardized procedures to aid hotels in preparing data to improve their qualifications for RFPs.

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GBTA +VDR Conference 2025 | Hamburg
Shape the Future: Call for Proposals Now Open for Hamburg 2025

Deadline: February 27

GBTA is seeking industry professionals to contribute new ideas, solutions, and innovations for current issues and challenges that confront the travel industry. With your unique perspective and insight, we can continue to deliver the best education on the topics most relevant to business travel.

Start your brainstorming and building your proposal using the Submission Worksheet. The Worksheet includes helpful “Tips” to advise what makes for a well-written proposal and the goal of providing each field.

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