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 ai...

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 hav...

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....

Business travel has been decimated over the past 15 months but that hasn’t stopped some companies from changing their travel management company. Indeed, some corporates have taken the time when things have been quieter to rethink their relation...

Despite, or is it because of, Covid, the corporate focus on sustainability has continued. Barely a day passes without someone in the business travel sector announcing a new sustainability initiative – whether that’s a new commitment to sustaina...

The Covid pandemic has caused a crisis in the TMC sector. The decimation of business travel and the lack of any real signs of when things will return to some form of normality has meant that many TMCs have failed – companies like Horncastle Exe...

Bill Gates has said that 50 per cent of business travel would go following the pandemic, but he would say that, wouldn't he? His company Microsoft has a very powerful alternative to business travel in teams, after all.Yet many companies...

Many countries and companies have set a target of making zero carbon emissions. Some are already there while others expect to get there at some point between now and 2050. Some have done so by investing in carbon offsetting schemes while others...

In the UK, more than 30 million people have been vaccinated; in Norway, the number is just 800,000. Yet there are two ends to any business trip so even if everyone in the UK is vaccinated it does not mean that other countries will be ready to w...

One of the biggest issues in the travel sector since the start of the pandemic has been the thorny issue of refunds.When global travel was effectively stopped, the industry had to work out what to do about the tickets that had already be...

In the past two weeks there have been two stories which jumped to the top of the most popular list on BTN Europe.The first was the news that Emirates is to start charging for GDS content from July, on the same day that it launches exclus...

In this week's episode we look at the growing discussion around digital health or vaccine passports and whether they are a solution to reopen locked international borders. This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe digital...

In this week's episode we discuss the findings of the Global Business Travel Association's BTI Outlook which forecasts that global business travel spend will recover to 2019 levels by 2025.This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe<...

Goodness knows this past year has been hard on everyone’s mental health and well-being but maybe it is now time to consider those two things more seriously when we finally emerge from this dreadful pandemic.This week's podcast is hosted ...

Happy new year or is it? The word happy seems a bit hollow in a world where a new wave of Covid is killing thousands every day across the world, countries have been slapped into lockdown and the ability to leave our homes, let alone our countri...

This week, quarantine for arriving travellers in the UK has been cut from from 14 to 10 days. The government’s test to release scheme – which allows people arriving in England to cut their quarantine in half if, after five days, they get a nega...

A couple of weeks ago, BTN Europe published a story about some comments that Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had said about the future of business travel, saying that he believed that 50 per cent of business travel would go.The...

This week's podcast is brought to you by host Mark Frary, BTN Europe acting digital editor, and Nikki Ping, manager, air content & distribution EMEA at Flight Centre Travel Group, Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Dave Bi...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe acting digital editor Mark Frary, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, an...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe acting digital editor Mark Frary, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, an...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe acting digital editor Mark Frary, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, an...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe digital editor Molly Dyson, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, and Paul...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe digital editor Molly Dyson, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, and Paul Tilstone...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe digital editor Molly Dyson, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Karen Hutchings, global head of travel, meetings and events for EY, Dave Bishop, CCO at Gray Dawes Group, and Paul Tilstone...

This week's podcast is hosted by BTN Europe digital editor Molly Dyson, with Daniel Tallos, travel manager EMEA at Nike, Suzanne Horner, chief executive at Gray Dawes Group, and Paul Tilstone, managing partner at Festive Road, discussing the wa...