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Special Reports: Travel Buyers Think Tank

  • Tap Resilience

    Six months in, 2020 has a lot to teach us – about travel and about life

    Oct. 21, 2020
    A digital illustration of a workplace environment where employees are working on computers. In the foreground, a woman with long curly hair wears a red outfit and a matching face mask. Behind her, additional workers, both male and female, sit at their desks, separated by clear partitions and wearing masks. The setting emphasizes pandemic-era workplace safety protocols.

  • Travel Buyers Think Tank #15

    ​This month the members of our Business Travel Executive Think Tank share memories of that disaster and offer thoughts on its impact versus today’s circumstances

    Aug. 1, 2020
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  • Travel Buyers Think Tank #14

    As this goes to press, we find the times we are living through are like no other in modern history – for individuals, communities and entire nations the world over. The importance of managing risk, maintaining business continuity and ensuring employee safety and wellbeing have been brought into stark relief by the sudden and vicious…

    May. 15, 2020
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  • Keep It Clean

    Beyond the pandemic, practicing healthy habits and caring for one another should be part of everyday life

    May. 15, 2020
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  • Rate Reconnaissance

    You may have all the tools you need to keep your hotel program in line – if you know where to look

    Mar. 31, 2020
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  • Travel Buyers Think Tank #13

    There was a time when managing the ground transportation part of a travel program was a relatively uncomplicated affair, with a limited number of choices and fairly cut-and-dried negotiations.​

    Mar. 15, 2020
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  • Travel Buyer’s POV #12

    When non-travel management types try to get a handle on travel costs, the solutions may look good on paper, but in reality often prove to be impractical and downright costly. One such measure is pre-trip approval, a perennial favorite of management, where a traveler’s supervisor is required to OK the travel before it can be…

    Feb. 12, 2020
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  • The Event Horizon

    Even for the best-planned meetings, glitches loom and hassles abound

    Feb. 12, 2020
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  • Travel Buyer’s POV #11

    Travel Buyer’s POV brings fresh perspectives and ideas to inspire innovation and thought leadership in the corporate travel industry.

    Dec. 16, 2019
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  • Change Happens

    For corporate travel, both opportunities and obstacles abound in 2020

    Dec. 16, 2019