GBTA: Concept for safe Return to Business Travel
ALEXANDRIA/USA – The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) – the world’s largest business travel association and worldwide leader in education, research, networking, and advocacy for the industry – proudly announces the Ready. Safe. Travel. Training Program to unite, educate and … Continue reading GBTA: Concept for safe Return to Business Travel
U.S. airlines ask Biden to Lift International Travel Ban
WASHINGTON – U.S. airlines and more than two dozen other industry groups on Monday urged the Biden administration to form a plan by May to lift international travel restrictions, including digital vaccine passport standards, after cross-border travel was devastated in … Continue reading U.S. airlines ask Biden to Lift International Travel Ban
Vaccine: Business Travelers show optimism
Alexandria, VA – Half (50%) of GBTA travel buyer and procurement professionals feel their employees are ‘willing’ or ‘very willing’ to travel for business in the current environment. Only one in five (22%) GBTA members feel their employees are not … Continue reading Vaccine: Business Travelers show optimism
High Unemployment in the Travel Industry
New York – At the peak of the Great Depression in 1933, unemployment in the nation reached 25 percent. Nearly 90 years later, the coronavirus pandemic has brought the travel industry into a Great Depression of its own. According to new data from … Continue reading High Unemployment in the Travel Industry
Japan wants domestic travel restraints
Tokyo – The Japanese government requests its citizens not to travel between areas where the coronavirus state of emergency is in place and other locations once the measure is partially lifted, Economic and Fiscal policy minister Yasutoshi Nishimura said today. … Continue reading Japan wants domestic travel restraints