National Business Travel Association
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The Institute of Travel and Meetings announced it would seek a replacement for chief executive Paul Tilstone, who plans to take a full-time position with the Global Business Travel...
… will "operate with" ITM as a GBTA representative, but "full details" of his new role "will be released by GBTA in due course." Tilstone early last year became managing director for what was then called NBTA Europe, "powered by ITM."
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The Global Business Travel Association announced an exclusive agreement with the Austrian Business Travel Association
. GBTA said the "initial one-year partnership" marks its tenth deal and is "based on the agreement with VDR --the German Business Travel Association." It is scheduled to take effect next month. According to GBTA, ABTA has 150 members.
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The Global Business Travel Association encourages the Department of Transportation to move quickly and require airlines to provide ancillary fee and...
The Global Business Travel Association "encourages" the Department of Transportation "to move quickly and require airlines to provide ancillary fee and fare information on any platform selling airline inventory bit.ly/gB4BX5 , not just airline websites," although GBTA is not "dictating specifics on
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The Global Business Travel Association hired a dean of education and director of certification
The Global Business Travel Association hired a "dean of education and director of certification" bit.ly/fH5BBw and plans to invest "millions of dollars in the coming years on education," according to executive director Mike McCormick, speaking during the Institute for Supply Management-GBTA Travel
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Ancillary Impasse
… using ARC's EMD process. There are some standards that are beginning to be defined." When the National Business Travel Association , now GBTA, in July 2010 announced the Airline Ancillary Product Global Task Force, its most pressing …
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GBTA Europe launched a new networking group for French travel managers
GBTA Europe launched a new networking group for French travel managers bit.ly/hqsbp2 . The group was created after L'Association Française des Travel Managers, France's largest travel management association, decided not to join GBTA Europe. ...
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WorldMate founder Nadav Gur announced plans to leave the company in the coming weeks
… Travelport each selected WorldMate to support their mobile services. Last summer, the Global Business Travel Association (then NBTA ) presented a business travel innovation award to WorldMate for its Live Mobile Travel Software. This month, Research In Motion …
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Report: Companies Should Increase Travel Spending To Maximize Sales
… 2009, they added, "validates" the ratio first calculated for the original Amex-GBTA (then the National Business Travel Association ) ROI report issued two years ago. An Amex spokeswoman clarified that "the 20:1 ratio has been …
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A majority of corporate travel buyers suspect adoption of the airline direct-connect model would result in higher costs and negatively impact the industry
, according to a National Business Travel Association Foundation survey of 244 travel buyers fielded last week. Of the respondents, 89 ..... concerned' if other airlines pursue similar distribution strategies," according to NBTA .
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House Transportation Committee Knocks High-Speed Rail Funding Plan
… between New York and Washington. Although the National Business Travel Association did not submit testimony for the hearing, director ..... policy Shane Downey previously indicated that NBTA supports high-speed rail funding , but only …
