Gbta News

MEA region expected to return to pre-pandemic levels of business travel spend by 2024
Business travel in the Middle East and Africa (MEA) is recovering more rapidly than in any other region, according to the most recent Business Travel Index™ Outlook annual forecast and outlook (2022), from the Global Business Travel Association

GBTA Foundation relaunches to Advance People and Planet Initiatives
Helping the global business travel industry create a positive impact and a better future for people and the planet is the mission behind the Global Business Travel Association’s relaunch of its charitable arm, the GBTA Foundation.

PATA and GBTA to host APAC Travel Summit in Bangkok
The Pacific Asia Travel Association (PATA) in partnership with the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) will host their inaugural PATA & GBTA APAC Travel Summit at the new, state-of-the-art Queen Sirikit National Convention Center (QSNCC) in Bangkok, Thailand from December 8-9, 2022.

GBTA: Companies should be rethinking their business travel programs
Business travelers are taking to the roads and the skies again, but are corporate travel programs and policies keeping up with the way business travel happens now?

GBTA applauds effort to end testing for U.S. inbound vaccinated travelers
GBTA applauds the bipartisan effort to end the current testing requirement for all vaccinated inbound travelers to the United States. Moreover, GBTA calls on the Biden Administration to immediately end the testing requirements and move to allow vaccinated travelers to fly into the U.S.

GBTA calls for transatlantic cooperation to reopen travel
The Global Business Travel Association, has reiterated the importance of cooperation between the European Union, Canada and the United States to restore safe travels and reboot the economy.

Global Business Travel Association convention postponed
The event, which some see as the voice of the global business travel industry, welcomes 7,000 business travel professionals from more than 50 countries across the globe.

Breaking Travel News investigates: Trump travel ban hits United States tourism
Following the decision by the United States supreme court to uphold a travel ban on a number of Muslim-majority countries, Michael McCormick, executive director of the GBTA, explains what impact the move is likely to have on business tourism in the country.

Hogan emphasises importance of competition in GBTA address
Etihad Airways president James Hogan emphasised the importance of consumer choice and innovation as the fundamental drivers of competition in the international airline industry. The comments came during a public conversation before an audience of approximately 4,000 attendees at the 2015 Global Business Travel Association Convention in Orlando.

Mystifly set to land at GBTA Convention 2015
Mystifly, the leading airline consolidator is set to exhibit at GBTA Convention 2015, the largest business travel conference in Orlando, Florida. Nearly 400 companies including airlines, hotels, travel management companies and technology providers will exhibit their products to 7,000 attendees at the expo from July 27th-29th.

GBTA announces first-ever GBTA Convention 2015 Media Day
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) today announced the organisation’s first-ever GBTA Convention 2015 Media Day to be held Sunday, July 26. This kick-off event will feature back-to-back news announcements throughout the morning from top travel companies around the world.

Registration now open for GBTA Convention 2015
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the voice of the global business travel industry – announced today registration is open for GBTA Convention 2015 in Orlando, Fla.