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  • The Elephant in the Room: Managed Travel: If You Can’t Define It, You Can’t Defend It 

    Understanding what kind of program you have is a good place to start

    May. 23, 2025
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  • Travel Buyers POV #30

    In each issue of Business Travel Executive, the members of our Buyer Think Tank offer their individual thoughts on what’s hot, what’s cool and what’s coming next in managed travel.  The Think Tank is a team of eight veteran travel managers from programs that run the gamut in size and complexity – but each member…

    May. 20, 2025
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  • Beyond Spreadsheets: Making Data Meaningful 

    The BTE Town Hall takes a deep dive into corporate travel data  and how to make it work for you and your stakeholders It's hard to wrangle corporate travel data. Organizing what's meaningful and transforming that into something compelling for executives and other stakeholders may be harder still. During the February Business Travel Executive Town…

    May. 13, 2025
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  • The Elephant in the Room: It Takes Two to Tango— Why we need more than one corporate travel association

    Corporate Buyers are well-represented by GBTA, Travel Agents have ASTA. It’s time to have a corporate travel association for “Suppliers”  Prologue:  The Corporate Travel Industry continues to grow its numbers proportionately to the challenges faced by travel buyers and travel services providers (I won’t label them as suppliers). In addition to TMCs there are many more TSPs…

    May. 6, 2025

  • The Intentional Traveler: Putting People First

    In a new era of travel and remote work, risk management aims to protect the Person, not just the Trip

    Apr. 30, 2025

  • Jet Streaming 

    On-board connectivity in business aviation has evolved beyond ‘how fast?’ to best-in-class digital experiences With the advent of satellite for on-board communications, connectivity is now a key requirement of business aviation users, and within that requirement comes the necessity of inflight cybersecurity.  The evolution since the days of air-to-ground (ATG) connectivity has gone from narrow pipelines…

    Apr. 29, 2025

  • Navigating the Deal

    As demand for MICE picks up steam, contracts are getting more complicated – and more nuanced Many things are changing in the business travel ecosystem as part of getting back to a post-pandemic normal. Return-to-travel policies were created, pre-trip approvals have tightened up and booking channels are becoming more complex. Unsurprisingly, businesses have been hyper-focused on…

    Apr. 21, 2025

  • Leveling Up Your TRM Program – On the Way to PRM 

    Building on an existing risk program and technology, you can protect all your people, all the time Travel Risk Management (TRM) is undergoing a paradigm shift. Advances in AI and automation are transforming the industry, while hybrid work models are redefining the scope of TRM. As the workforce becomes more dispersed, identifying who is traveling…

    Apr. 16, 2025

  • Corporate Hotel Rates: Time for a Makeover?

    New strategies, tactics and technologies are shifting the conversations around lodging programs

    Apr. 7, 2025
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  • Breaking the Travel Payments Code

    When it comes to paying the bill for travel, true end-to-end solutions are tantalizingly close

    Mar. 31, 2025