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They say Thursday’s child has far to go. When Gray Dawes’ Head of Sales – Laura Busby – gave birth to her son Dylan, she took that saying literally. But when travel is your passion, it’s perhaps no surprise that mother and son were destined to visit twelve countries in the first twelve months of his life! This insightful and often moving personal blog of a mother’s travels with her newborn son recounts their experiences.

Award-winning Air Canada is Canada’s largest airline, the country’s flag carrier and a founding member of Star Alliance providing direct service to six continents. Check out their latest news, including details on Air Canada’s fleet of more than 400 aircraft, which is one of the youngest, most fuel efficient and environmentally friendly in the world.

We’ve partnered with the world-renowned experts at Loughborough University to create PODIUM, a traveller well-being programme like no other. Podium takes the learnings from elite sports management and applies them to the world of business travel. Get ready to take your travel policy and your business to the top of your game.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan is the new Secretary of State for Transport. In this biography article, we try to get to know Trevelyan a little better, by exploring her background, beliefs and past experiences in order to better understand what her appointment in government could mean for the business travel industry.

Starting a full RFP (Request for Proposal) / tender process can be an overwhelming prospect. In this handy ‘how to’ guide, we run through through each element of the RFP process you’ll need to consider, enabling you to partner with a Travel Management Company (TMC) that’s ideal for your business.

This month saw the global business travel community gathered at the GBTA Convention in San Diego from 14 – 17 August. Our own COO David Bishop and CCO Warren Dix were in attendance, meeting with a wealth of industry peers and corporate travel managers, seeing what GBTA had to offer and representing the Gray Dawes brand.

With sterling in poor shape internationally, British business travellers could mistakenly accept an extremely poor rate of exchange when using credit and debit cards abroad, either when paying for goods or services, or when using ATM machines to withdraw cash.

Gray Dawes Group CEO, Suzanne Horner, recently sat down with Business Travel News Europe for an in-depth interview following our acquisition of the Ventur Travel business. Suzanne reveals a few insights into our future strategy, including how Gray Dawes are now close to completing a deal that will mark our first step of global expansion!

As part of our ongoing strategic growth plans, we are super excited to announce that Gray Dawes Group has acquired the Leeds and Edinburgh based travel management business, Ventur Travel, formerly known as Traveleads. The acquisition also sees Venture Travel’s specialist leisure division, Ventur Luxury based in Harrogate, join the Gray Dawes Group.