The GBTA Media Day 2024 took place on Monday, July 22. Media Day is a long-standing part of Convention where sponsor and exhibitor partners have the opportunity to share their breaking news, announcements and innovations with an audience of media representatives who recognize the event as a sought-out source of industry insights.
Current line-up of presenting companies for Media Day 2024:
Accelya
Accelya and WestJet announce the signing of a new five-year FLX Retailing Platform agreement. Accelya's FLX Retailing Platform will enable WestJet to take control of its distribution and deliver differentiated content to support the needs of customers. Accelya continues momentum within North America for airlines looking to drive NDC adoption and set the foundations for Offer & Order transformation
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ALTOUR
ALTOUR announces a new suite of AI technologies, offering seamless interactions and personalized solutions which will help clients transform how they communicate, collaborate, and conduct business globally.
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Christopherson
Christopherson announces the release of the first phase of Andavo, their new Andavo mobile app for travelers. This app includes the following features:
Group Trips and Social Sharing
- trip sharing so others can see real-time information about your flight and
itinerary updates
- map of other group members in your trip location
- data overview of the group (miles traveled, flights on time, etc.)
Trip Management
- advanced notifications and real-time flight updates such as gate (departure
time, boarding warning), terminal, baggage claim carousel, and flight travel
info (flight progress, predicted taxi time)
- smart, internally dynamic itineraries rather than PDFs (ability to view air, car,
and hotel)
- flight tracking (following a flight, allowing people to subscribe to your trips,
delays, predictive arrivals, etc.)
- Google maps navigation, confirmation numbers, payment used
Profile Management
- ability to edit/copy/paste on mobile app (loyalty numbers, passport numbers,
payment methods, etc.)
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CLC Lodging
CLC announces the launch of its new group booking tool to simplify management for more complex projects and long-term stays. With CLC Lodging’s Group Reservation services, all members can now submit project and long-term lodging requests directly from their CLC Lodging account. CLC handles all aspects of sourcing, negotiations, and reservation changes — based on specific project criteria — so that members get the best deals for their teams while simplifying complex travel projects.
✔ View multiple travel options tailored to travel budgets, location, and amenity preferences
✔ View reservations directly from CLC account
✔ Save time by allowing CLC travel experts to do all the negotiating
✔ Simplify invoice reconciliation through a single source
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Corporate Traveler
Corporate Traveler USA announces its current focus areas and future growth plans, including an eventual new office opening in Atlanta as part of its latest U.S. expansion, as well as the latest positive changes at the company over the past year.
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Corporate Travel Management
Corporate Travel Management announces the transition of its our Event Travel Management brand to “CTM Meetings & Event” as businesses are showing an increased appetite for meetings and corporate events, to connect employees face-to-face for the purpose of team collaboration, learning and development, and innovation. By integrating its meetings and events offering under the CTM brand, they are making the benefits of professionally managed business events more accessible, efficient and effective than ever before – backed by CTM’s core value proposition.
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Watch the launch video here: https://travelctm.wistia.com/medias/avlg4ysmca
Emburse
Emburse announces the launch of The Current and Future State of Travel and Expense, a two-part, research- and data-based, vision for the next generation of business T&E solutions. Emburse's innovative travel and expense solutions power forward-thinking organizations.
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Groupize
Groupize, a leading provider of corporate travel and meeting solutions, announces the release of its latest software upgrade, packed with cutting-edge features designed for professional meeting planners and global meeting programs. This significant update is set to redefine corporate meeting management by delivering powerful tools that enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and offer an unparalleled user experience. From managing small meetings to large-scale events, internal gatherings to external conferences, Groupize's innovative platform is poised to empower both occasional and professional planners like never before.
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Planned
Planned announces a new partnership with Spotnana. By combining the most advanced Meetings & Events booking solution to the most advanced Online Booking Tool, they're creating the first tech-accelerated TMC on the market.
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Reed & Mackay
Reed & Mackay announces it is taking its commitment to sustainable business travel a crucial step further, by incorporating granular sustainability data into its policy and approval engines and its reporting suite. This shift enables a proactive focus on reducing CO2 emissions and achieving carbon targets, empowering Travel Managers to monitor sustainability trends, and set approval flows based on sustainability metrics. It also further encourages bookers and travelers to consider sustainability at point of purchase, changing behaviors at all levels of the organization.
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Spotnana
Spotnana, the world’s first Travel-as-a-Service platform modernizing the travel industry's infrastructure, announces their integration with Thrust Carbon, the travel industry's leading sustainability intelligence platform.
- The advanced integration will provide Spotnana customers and channel partners with comprehensive access to Thrust Carbon's calculation services.
- Corporations will be able to benefit from a global view of their travel program’s carbon emissions on Spotnana’s Travel-as-a-Service platform for all air, hotel, car, and rail travel, using the specific methodology defined by each customer in the Thrust Carbon intelligence platform.
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Travelport
Travelport announces the company’s vision for multisource content. This includes exciting updates utilizing AI and machine learning (ML).
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TripStax
TripStax announces a new strategic partnership with global travel risk intelligence company, Riskline, to provide enhanced travel risk data to TripStax's TMC and corporate clients, including real-time human-verified travel risk intelligence.
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Zoho
Zoho announces a new suite of products called Zoho Spend, which includes solutions for payroll management, travel and expense management, procurement, AP automation, and issuing cards.
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Flight Centre Travel Group - Corporate Brands - FCM Travel & Corporate Traveler
FCM announces news on FCM's new 'Approvals' product.
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GBTA Communications & PR Contacts:
- General team mailbox: press@gbta.org
- Debbie Iannaci (Global), diannaci@gbta.org
- Tara Erwin (NORAM), terwin@gbta.org