With less than a week to go until the third annual Business Travel Market (BTM), the conference & exhibition for European travel buyers, a host of exhibitor activities are already in place for the two day event. Being held between 22 and 23 June, at London’s Excel, this year is set to be bigger and better than ever with exhibitors taking the opportunity to maximise their presence with timely news announcements.

Business Travel Market (BTM) has this week announced that Paul Deighton, Chief Executive Officer of The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG),  will be the keynote speaker on day two of this year’s event.

Now in its third year, Business Travel Market is the only event in Europe that brings corporate travel buyers from across Europe together with travel suppliers for efficient and cost-effective meetings and educationals.

With activity ahead of the third annual Business Travel Market (BTM) ramping up, the conference & exhibition for European travel buyers is excited to announce that the first hundred VIP Hosted Buyers have registered for the event.

Businesses will remain reluctant to upgrade staff to premium class despite the improving global economic outlook, warns the Civil Aviation Authority. Companies that cut staff travel budgets during the downturn are unlikely to reverse this trend as they have become accustomed to the associated cost-savings, the British regulator says in its latest report.

A survey of 4,000 consumers from the UK, Germany, Italy and Spain and has shown how purse strings have remained firmly tightened when it comes to leisure and business travel in 2010, following the market challenges experienced in 2009.