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THERE are more than 6000 delegates attending the Global Business Travel Association convention in Denver, Colorado this week – but these four Aussies still managed to get together. The event, with the appropriate Rocky Mountains theme of Elevating the Business of Travel, included a key Airline CEO Panel featuring US Airways ceo Doug Parker along with Hainan Airlines chief Wang Yingming, who quipped that the carrier hasn’t joined an alliance yet because “we don’t want to marry early”. GBTA has released its annual travel spend study, forecasting a 9.2% increase this year to just over US$1 trillion globally. And the new GBTA Academy has also officially launched, described as a “world class educational institution for travel executives”. The Academy aims to elevate the profession of business travel management, and will offer three certificates at the associate-level, manager-level and leader level. It will also provide the “industry’s first global certificate program in business travel management,” and at next year’s GBTA Convention in Boston, Massachusetts 22-25 Jul 2012 the Academy will unveil the first-ever Travel Management Certification examination. Pictured above in Denver this morning are, from left: Adam Tulich, Sabre manager Global Corporate Online ; Ana Pedersen, vice president Global Sales for BCD Travel; Stephen Finlay, BCD director of multinational sales; and Glenn Cusack, Sabre Pacific head of corporate sales Aust/NZ. |
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