The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) today announced it would expand its industry-leading educational offerings to include a conference in London focused on emerging industry trends…
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) today announced it would expand its industry-leading educational offerings to include a conference in London focused on emerging industry trends and innovations in corporate travel. The NBTA Corporate Travel Buyer Think Tank, held on September 27, 2006, will offer a unique opportunity for high-level business travel and procurement professionals from multi-national companies to gather in an exclusive setting with a maximum of 130 participants and a buyer-supplier ratio of 70 to 30.
The program will include sessions covering topics such as the changing global distribution system market, travel management and procurement, leasing of corporate fleets, and the myths and realities of benchmarking. Ian Flint, Head of Consultancy of Ian Flint & Associates, will chair the event. Speakers will include Keith Mollineaux, European Travel Manager, General Electric; Jim Parkinson, Head of Payment Cards, Office of Government Commerce; Debbie Winston, Manager – Global Travel Operations, Cisco Systems, Ltd.; and more. The Corporate Travel Buyer Think Tank is sponsored by British Airways, Carlson Wagonlit Travel, and Hilton Hotels. The dinner program will feature a preview of British Airways` new Club World product.
The London Corporate Travel Buyer Think Tank will expand on NBTA`s recent successes supporting the travel management profession in the global marketplace, said NBTA President and CEO, Suzanne Fletcher. NBTA co-hosted with ABGEV the first-ever multi-day event dedicated to corporate travel in Latin America. We have supported international corporate travel events such as the London Business Travel Show and the Asia Pacific T&E Travel Management Summit. Our affiliate in Canada, the Canadian Alliance of Business Travel, hosted the largest-ever Canadian conference focused on travel management. I have had the privilege of representing NBTA and the corporate travel industry at events such as the Global Travel & Tourism Summit and a Boeing summit held in conjunction with the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. And the NBTA International Convention & Exposition, the premier industry event of the year, is again expected to draw attendees from across the globe in 2006. The London Think Tank is one more NBTA initiative designed to provide benefits for travel management practitioners around the world.
United States-based NBTA – the world`s leading buyer-driven association for corporate travel professionals — offers the corporate travel industry`s premier education, professional development, networking, benchmarking, research, news and information resources. NBTA has an affiliate organization in Canada – the Canadian Alliance of Business Travel – and maintains a strategic partnership with the Australasian Business Travel Association (ABTA). NBTA is also a founding member of the Paragon Partnership, the global alliance of business travel associations which brings together buyer-led corporate travel organizations from 11 countries: Austria, Australia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and the United States.
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