Driving climate action in business travel: GBTA Sustainability plans for 2023
Release Date: 02/24/2023
Two Sides of the Same Coin - Rail
The Business of Travel
Two Sides of the Same Coin is a podcast series from the GBTA EMEA Transportation Committee exploring the future of multimodal business travel. Across five episodes, industry buyers and suppliers come together to discuss how air, rail, car, and ride services fit into the corporate travel ecosystem, the barriers preventing true multimodality, and the role technology and AI can play in creating a more seamless traveler experience. In this episode, host Ian Jones, Consultant at Temoji, is joined by Tracy Adams-Regnerus, Manager, Global Travel Operations, RELX, and Paul Brindley, B2B...
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Two Sides of the Same Coin - Ride
The Business of Travel
Two Sides of the Same Coin is a podcast series from the GBTA EMEA Transportation Committee exploring the future of multimodal business travel. Across five episodes, industry buyers and suppliers come together to discuss how air, rail, car, and ride services fit into the corporate travel ecosystem, the barriers preventing true multimodality, and the role technology and AI can play in creating a more seamless traveler experience. In this episode, host Ian Jones, Consultant at Temoji, is joined by Calum Hawley, Managing Director at BTC Global, and Andrew Laughlan, Head of...
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Two sides of the Same Coin - Air
The Business of Travel
Two Sides of the Same Coin is a podcast series from the GBTA EMEA Transportation Committee exploring the future of multimodal business travel. Across five episodes, industry buyers and suppliers come together to discuss how air, rail, car, and ride services fit into the corporate travel ecosystem, the barriers preventing true multimodality, and the role technology and AI can play in creating a more seamless traveler experience. In this episode, host Ian Jones, Consultant at Temoji, is joined by Daniel Hayward, Global Travel Manager, Squarepoint Capital, and Amy Stirling,...
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Two Sides of the Same Coin - Car
The Business of Travel
Two Sides of the Same Coin is a podcast series from the GBTA EMEA Transportation Committee exploring the future of multimodal business travel. Across five episodes, industry buyers and suppliers come together to discuss how air, rail, car, and ride services fit into the corporate travel ecosystem, the barriers preventing true multimodality, and the role technology and AI can play in creating a more seamless traveler experience. In this episode, host Ian Jones, Consultant at Temoji, is joined by Jennifer Carprieaux Head of Sales, France, Sixt, and Darren Hall, European...
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GBTA Accommodation Committee: Extended Stay as a Strategic Corporate Category
The Business of Travel
Extended stay should be treated as a strategic category - not a hotel alternative—when organisations need better cost control, stronger traveller suitability for multi-week stays and more disciplined programme design across Travel, Procurement and Mobility. The opportunity is compelling, but scale typically breaks down where booking friction, variable standards, weak policy thresholds and fragmented supplier management are prevalent. As corporate travel shifts toward longer project stays, relocation transitions and purposeful consolidated trips, extended stay is becoming a more relevant...
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WINiT Wisdom: Reframing Imposter Syndrome with Dr. Maureen Gannon
The Business of Travel
Dr. Maureen Gannon shares insights on imposter syndrome and how to move past self-doubt with greater confidence. Hosted by Cari Wurzbacher. Brought to you by WINiT by the GBTA Foundation. Music track is Licensed under Creative Commons:
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Personalisation Technology Trends in Accommodation
The Business of Travel
In this episode of The Business of Travel, the GBTA Europe Accommodation Committee explores how technology is shaping personalisation across the accommodation experience in business travel. Hosted by Daniel Norris, Regional Director of Sales at ehotel and members of the GBTA Europe Accommodation Committee, the conversation brings together perspectives from across the business travel ecosystem, including travel management, accommodation providers, and hotel operations. Together, the panel discusses how personalisation is evolving beyond traveller preference...
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Digital Accessibility in Business Travel: From Compliance to Competitive Advantage
The Business of Travel
Digital accessibility is often treated as a compliance checkbox—but in reality, it’s a complex, evolving discipline with direct implications for risk, customer experience, and operational efficiency. In this episode, a Product Manager and Accessibility Compliance lead at Cytric Easy at Amadeus IT Group (Nick Hebrant) breaks down what accessibility actually means in practice. The conversation demystifies WCAG 2.1 accessibility guidelines, clarifying that they are not rigid standards but guidelines—introducing interpretation, subjectivity, and inconsistency across organizations and...
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BTI en foco: Tendencias de viajes de negocios en América Latina / BTI findings for Latin America and share perspective from Visa
The Business of Travel
Nota: Este episodio está disponible en español. En este episodio de The Business of Travel, Mariana Pérez Ponce de León, Regional Director, Mexico, Central America and Colombia de GBTA, y Daniel Duarte, South Regional Manager de GBTA, conversan con Alfredo Dellepiane, Sr. Director – LAC Agro & WCS Head, Visa Commercial Solutions, LAC, sobre los hallazgos más recientes del GBTA Business Travel Index™ para América Latina. La conversación explora el crecimiento de los viajes de negocios en la región, las tendencias por mercado, la percepción de los viajeros, la gestión de...
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2026 Hotel RFP Trends presented by the US GBTA Accommodations Committee
The Business of Travel
In this episode of The Business of Travel, presented by the GBTA U.S. Accommodations Committee, Fred Veliyev, Principal Product Manager at Cvent Transient, David Mollov, Managing Director of Travel Industry Solutions at Emburse, and Annette Cumming, SVP Business Development at CerebriAI, discuss the key trends that emerged from the 2026 hotel RFP season. The conversation explores what buyers should know as they evaluate hotel program performance, supplier strategy, sourcing decisions, and the evolving technologies shaping accommodation programs. Listeners...
info_outlineGBTA’s Sustainability Initiative – a program managed by the GBTA Foundation – focuses on driving climate action to create a future where global business travel can be done with a net positive impact on the planet and its people. As we move into 2023, GBTA Vice President, Mark Cuschieri, sits down with Jenny Sabineu, Chair of GBTA’s Sustainability Committee and Delphine Millot, GBTA Senior Vice President for Sustainability, to discuss priorities and concrete actions planned for the year ahead.
The discussion centers around current needs of business travel professionals around sustainability; GBTA’s plans to address these – including building capacity, driving cross-industry alignment, and advocating for clearer standards on emissions reporting; the push for low carbon transport infrastructure and solutions; and the benefit of radical collaboration across the global business travel industry.
For more information, visit the GBTA Foundation Sustainability webpage.
Music: Space Jazz by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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