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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Vonderheide oversees the company’s top 60 enterprise clients, and reports that tech companies like Google & Microsoft are coming back faster than finance and professional service companies like Deloitte and PwC, which are currently more hesitant.

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TWT: Mask Lift Fallouts, Sustainable Travel

Smart Meetings

Interestingly, longer travel times are more likely seen as a barrier by those outside the industry (41%) than by industry respondents (32%). Kevin Iwamoto, chief strategy officer with Bizly, told us that “The GBTA study validates that many companies, travel buyers and meeting planners are supporting sustainability initiatives.

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Southwest Airlines Introduces Rapid Rewards Business

Business Traveler USA

Company travelers still earn their own points through their personal Rapid Rewards account, and if a traveler needs to cancel, all Rapid Rewards Business points will return to the company account.

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12 Important Do’s and Don’ts of Business Travel Management

Hotel Engine

Re-opening the world is a rare opportunity to start fresh with your company’s travel management policies. Whether you oversee travel management for 5 or 5000, now is a great time to set up new guidelines for communication, reiterate the company travel policies, and streamline your workflow.

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Canadian-based Company Launches Melon for SMEs

Business Traveler USA

A breakdown of spend, alongside dashboard analysis of important KPI metrics in real-time, also helps customers extract key data needed to inform decision making and accurately manage finances.

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Global business travel to grow 21% in 2021

Travel Daily Media

As US airlines also expect, the group said businesses are likely to spend more on travel that cannot be duplicated with online meetings such as sales calls and service trips. The proportion of companiestravel budget spent on internal meetings is estimated to decline 6%, compared with 2019, the group said.

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GBTA: Bookings, spending and optimism on the upswing

Travel Daily Media

Almost half of travel suppliers (47%) report their company’s staffing level is somewhat or much smaller than it was pre-pandemic, while 28% say it is about the same. However, two in three travel suppliers (65%) expect staffing will increase a lot or somewhat in 2023 compared to 2022, while 26% expect no change.

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