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State of In-Person Events: Who’s Booking What, Where & When?

Smart Meetings

Vonderheide oversees the company’s top 60 enterprise clients, and reports that tech companies like Google & Microsoft are coming back faster than finance and professional service companies like Deloitte and PwC, which are currently more hesitant. Where They’re Booking : Hyatt’s top destinations are Washington, D.C.,

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Adding Accessibility to DEI: Making Travel & Events Inclusive for All

ADMEI

The ADA was only passed in 1990 in the United States, and the EAA was enacted in 2019. The world has taken recent steps toward accessibility in travel and everyday life alike, but there is still more to do.

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GBTA: Bookings, spending and optimism on the upswing

Travel Daily Media

Business travel bookings and spending continue making their way back to 2019 levels. On average, travel buyers estimate their companies’ current domestic business travel bookings have returned to 67% of pre-pandemic 2019 levels (up from 63% in GBTA’s October poll).

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How to Build a T&E Policy: Best Practices

Hotel Engine

In 2019, companies spent over $111.7 billion on business travel. Of course, the frequency of business travel has ebbed and flowed a bit since 2020 with the uncertainty of the pandemic, but one thing remains the same: Business travel expenses affect the bottom line. That’s where T&E policies come into play.

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Global business travel to grow 21% in 2021

Travel Daily Media

As US airlines also expect, the group said businesses are likely to spend more on travel that cannot be duplicated with online meetings such as sales calls and service trips. The proportion of companiestravel budget spent on internal meetings is estimated to decline 6%, compared with 2019, the group said.

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