The GTMC has announced the Addison Lee Group, which includes Addison Lee and Tristar Worldwide, as its latest industry partner in the ground transportation sector.

Members will be able to directly benefit from the Addison Lee Group’s extensive insights and experience from over 40 years of providing award-winning ground transportation services to the international business community.           

The Addison Lee Group is responsible for getting over ten million passengers to their destinations each year in London alone.

Over the last four decades, the company has pioneered new technologies to consistently serve the exacting standards of business customers.

Addison Lee was the first company to develop a customer app, the first to digitise bookings, and the first to exploit the burgeoning pool of captured data to create value for customers.

Today, the group provides the business travel community with executive pre-booked cars in over 80 countries around the world.

As a GTMC partner, the Addison Lee Group gains exclusive access to industry leading strategy groups and the member travel management companies that represent the best of the UK’s business travel sector.

Andy Boland, chief executive, Addison Lee, said: “We’re delighted that in its 50th year, the GTMC has welcomed us into its community.”

Representing a diverse range of travel management companies – from global companies to small independent specialists and top regional agencies – GTMC, originally founded in 1967, is the voice of business travel and acts to lobby those who have an impact on the business travel community, together with promoting the activities of its members as the best in quality and value to the business traveller.