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This is the question on the minds of travel and MICE buyers in general, and all the more so over the last few years when prices have soared: when will there be a lull in prices? The 2025 Global Business Travel Forecast should provide some answers. And perhaps even a...

What can you take away from COP 28 for the business travel industry, as you represented the GBTA for the first time in Dubai? Delphine Millot - The GBTA had just been granted observer status at COP 28. And to see more than 190 countries represented was really impressive. When we talk about reducing...

France is well and truly back on the road to business travel. The latest GBTA study bears this out: according to the GBTA Business Travel Index Outlook report, by the end of the year the French market should have recovered 96% of business travel expenditure compared with 2019, the reference year. The...

More than 800 business travel professionals responded to the appeal launched last October by the GBTA (Global Business Travel Association). All of these testimonies now make it possible to "take the temperature" of the market, with the aim of returning to the travel volumes seen before the health crisis. Without...

After months of increases - some of them brutal - are business travel prices on the way to stabilising? And should these substantially higher prices become the new norm for the years to come? This is one option being considered by the authors of the 2024 Global Business Travel report...

At ITB Berlin, the leading travel event in March, the business travel industry had the opportunity on Wednesday to take stock of developments in their sector. Suzanne Neufang, CEO of the GBTA, addressed her peers. Confirming a gradual return to normal for business travel, she went on to...

The 2022 edition of the GBTA Europe conference was unique in more ways than one. For the first time, the international business travel association devoted an entire day to a new Sustainability Summit, prior to its 'classic' event. It was also the first time that GBTA Europe had gone beyond the German market, the preserve of its...

The latest business travel index from the GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) has just been published. And it contains some bad news: estimates of the recovery are 18 months behind schedule. The GBTA estimates that it will not be until 2026, rather than 2024, that the global business travel industry...

While some have got out their temporary summer gear, business travel professionals are drawing out their calculators. And the least we can say is that the calculations are not good! Or at least the results, and their impact on travel budgets. A few days ago, Travelperk put a figure on inflation...

The health crisis has not dampened business travellers' appetite for international mobility, and the business opportunities it brings: this is one of the conclusions to be drawn from the study recently published by the GBTA. According to this 21st survey, 77% of companies indicate that their employees are "willing" or even "very willing" to...

Week after week, the GBTA polls business travel professionals to find reasons for optimism, which are all too rare in the current crisis. The new survey published by the association on 22 April - its 18th during the Covid period - is no exception to the rule. According to the survey, carried out from 12 to...

Business travellers will have to be patient, according to figures published on 2 February by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA). In its BTI Outlook report, the association estimates that a full return to pre-pandemic levels can be expected by 2025. However, the GBTA expects an upturn as early as 2021,...

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is continuing its series of studies to take the temperature of the business travel and MICE markets. A new report - the 14th since the start of the health crisis - has just been unveiled. Focusing on the meetings & events sector, it is reassuring about the market's prospects for the next few years.

Last July, ACTE announced the end of its activities. The association explained its bankruptcy not only by the economic impact of Covid-19, but also by the political situation in Hong Kong, both of which led to the cancellation of conferences traditionally organised by ACTE. In the end, the association's assets found a buyer: its main...

From 12 to 16 October, the GBTA surveyed more than 900 business travel professionals worldwide. The aim was to identify the obstacles to the recovery in business travel, and above all the ways in which the business travel machine could be revived. Their response was clear: travel buyers are impatiently awaiting the deployment of screening systems...

A recent survey published by the GBTA reveals a stark - and unsurprising - fact: business travel has come to a complete standstill. 98% of the companies surveyed have interrupted their international travel, and 92% domestically. Of course, this freeze in business travel is not without consequences for the...

Labour unrest, climate change protests, global trade wars, rising oil prices, terrorism: the new Global Travel Forecast paints an anxiety-inducing picture of 2020 in Europe, to say the least... "The risks and confusion have increased in recent months, not least with the threat of escalating trade wars,... The risks and confusion have increased in recent months, not least with the threat of escalating trade wars,...

The SAP Concur survey of 1,250 European business travellers reveals a decline in the number of direct hotel and air bookings. From 2017 to 2018, these bookings fell from 79 % to 68 % and from 83 % to 70 % respectively. "62 % business travellers consider that...

After focusing for a time on Frankfurt, the annual conference of the GBTA Europe (Global Business Travel Association) has this year moved to Berlin, to the Estrel Congress Center, four years after the association's last event in Berlin. A successful comeback, judging by the excellent attendance figures for the three days of...

You can't blame Millennials for having expensive tastes when it comes to eating out on business: that's the conclusion of a study published on 7 August by the GBTA (Global Business Travel Association), carried out in partnership with Dinova. According to the report, entitled "Taking a bite out of Business Dining",...