BTN Europe gathers a panel of managed travel experts to discuss the industry's current events and how they impact travel managers and travellers alike.
With airline revenues decimated by the Covid-19 pandemic, it would seem that investment in rolling out IATA's New Distribution Capability (NDC) has come to a standstill. A Sabre executive recently said that "the vast majority of airlines have paused or completely stopped their NDC activity". Certainly, there has seemed to be little public activity around NDC. But is that really the case? Has Covid derailed NDC or has it spurred airlines and intermediaries into working har...
12 Jul 2021
Episode 25: Will double vaccination plans reopen business travel?
Last week, the UK’s transport secretary Grant Shapps announced a change to the entry regulations for England, meaning that anyone who has completed a full course of vaccinations against Covid will now be allowed to enter the country without having to self-isolate. Yet business travel has been on its knees for 15 months and even this reopening comes with barriers. We have heard again this week that another TMC has ceased trading. Is it all too little, too late for the sector. We discuss the im...
30 Jun 2021
Episode 24: Is the future online or offline in business travel?
The Covid crisis has brought the question of how your bookings should be serviced under greater scrutiny. Regularly changing regulations and border closures now mean that many bookings now require some hand-holding in a way they did not before. Recent years have seen many corporates shift their programme from offline to online in order to drive savings but has that now been reversed? The rise of online travel management platforms has also led corporates to question whether there should be a g...
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