MOVING FORWARD
THE BLOG FOR BUSINESS TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS
Face to Face Meetings
The COVID-19 pandemic has got us all rethinking the way we do business. From no longer needing expensive office space (replaced by the home office) to conducting important business meetings via video conferencing technology. So… do we still need to face meetings?
The End Of The Office?
So many of us haven’t been in to the office for months and, at least in the UK, there seems very little appetite to do so any time soon. Many businesses are seriously looking at alternatives to corporate bricks and mortar, in favour of operating virtually. So, what does this all mean for business travel?
How To Keep Travelling During Lockdown
As the UK enters a second lockdown, travel for work is still permitted. If you’re a regular business traveller you may also be exempt from the current quarantine regulations. We show you how to keep you – and your business – moving, safely and legally.
Holiday to Help Out
Give yourself something to look forward to! The Holiday to Help Out scheme provides incredible special offers for holiday bookings made over a limited period – from now until November 8th – giving everyone a chance to book a break for next year and beyond, and have a holiday to look forward to.
Gray Dawes Group Joins the Movember Mo-vement
We are proud to announce that this year the Gentlemen of Gray Dawes Group will be growing facial furniture for the month of November, in support of Movember. Movember, for those who haven’t heard of them, are a leading charity working to change the face of men’s...
Behind the Scenes at Heathrow Airport
Our own Gray Dawes Group Marketing Director, John Cooper, was recently invited by United Airlines and Heathrow Airport to take a look – first hand – at the measures being put in place for the safety of travellers. What John discovered were a range of innovations and practices which, in his opinion, make taking a flight the safest place to be!
CommonPass
In collaboration with The Commons Project, the World Economic Forum is supporting the development and launch of CommonPass, an initiative which aims to develop a global, interoperable framework to safely restore cross-border travel to pre-pandemic levels.
COVID-19: First UK Airport Coronavirus Testing Begins
to have the option of paying for a rapid COVID-19 test before checking in. The test will cost £80 and the result is guaranteed within an hour. The aim is to help people travelling to destinations where proof of a negative result is required on arrival.
Suzanne Horner Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders
Our CEO, Suzanne Horner, has been named as one of LDC’s Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders for 2020. Now in its third year, the programme, which is supported by The Telegraph, celebrates the inspiring leaders behind some of the UK’s most successful and fast-growing medium-sized firms.
Return to the Skies
In a new report commissioned by London City Airport, nine out of ten large UK companies say air travel is cruicial to success. The importance of domestic and international travel to the economic prospects of UK businesses and the wider economy reveals that the majority of UK business leaders would return to the skies if quarantine measures were eased.
BTN Podcast Episode 6
IATA has announced that airlines will burn through $77 billion in cash before the end of the year and a further $6 billion a month next year. Easyjet has announced its first ever loss. In this podcast, the panelists discuss how to manage travel programmes when airlines are facing an existential threat.
Top 5 Best Business Apps
For business professionals, the game has changed. Technology has enabled us to ‘do more’, which has obviously resulted in ‘more to do’. The working day has become far more challenging, with multiple devices and projects all in need of constant upkeep. Enter the business app.
Back to Brexit
Brexit is back! With the transition deadline of 1st January 2021 looming, when new rules for UK citizens travelling to the European Union come into force, now is the time to remind yourself of what’s going to change for business travellers and what you need to do to prepare.
Airlines and Airports Innovative Ideas to Get Travellers Travelling
Qatar Airways has become the first global carrier to operate Honeywell’s ultraviolet (UV) cabin cleaning technology in their aircraft. Meanwhile Helsinki Airport are using sniffer dogs to detect travellers infected with COVID-19 and say it is ‘close to 100% accurate’.
BTN Europe Podcast Episode 5
The latest episode of the new BTN Europe podcast series Week in Review is now available to listen below or download via Spotify and Apple Podcasts.
AIRLINE UPDATES: September
From no more booking fees for Lufthansa, Swiss, Austrian Airlines and Brussels Airlines flights to a new pilot programme of testing between London and New York announced by The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC); the measures being implemented by airlines to help build traveller confidence mean that international business travel is safely back on the menu.
How to get a Covid-19 Test
As countries start to reopen they all have different requirements, many of these require proof of a negative COVID test within a certain time. So how do you arrange this and can you use an NHS test?
Traveller Toolkit Trackers
Consulting Manager, Aman Pourkarimi, gives a brief introduction to the Gray Dawes Traveller Toolkit. Aman shows how to use the free tools we’ve built for business travel professionals, designed to help you avoid unnecessary cancellations and travel headaches caused as a result of Covid-19 border travel restrictions.
BTN Europe Podcast Episode 4
We know the global crisis caused travel managers to implement a number of changes to their policy very rapidly to protect travellers and get those already on the road home safely. Will any of these policy updates stick around in the longer term?
All Party Parliamentary Group
The UK Parliament has launched an All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) dedicated to Business Travel, raising the profile of the sector within the government. Our very own CEO, Suzanne Horner, spoke to MPs during the inaugural session.
BTN Europe Podcast Episode 3
The third episode of the new BTN Europe podcast series Week in Review is now available to listen below or download via Spotify and Apple Podcasts. This week we’re discussing how the coronavirus pandemic has influenced changes in company travel policies.
Data & Duty of Care Compliance
Combining analysis from the ‘traveller experience’ will give you a strong platform to fulfil Duty of Care legal requirements and make travelling a safe and rewarding experience for your staff. In this article Consulting Manager, Aman Pourkarimi, shows you how.
Updating Your Travel Policy
According to a recent survey by corporate travel news aggregator service ‘The Beat’, 4 out of 5 travel managers are either changing their travel policy or considering doing so. We caught up with our Consulting Manager, Aman Pourkarimi, to get the latest advice on how to keep your travel policy to update.
BTN Europe Podcast Episode 2
The second episode of BTN Europe Week in Review features our own Chief Executive Suzanne Horner and discusses the ways in which new and existing business travel technology can help build traveller confidence in getting back on the road during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Why Zoom and Skype won’t kill business travel
In this fascinating two minute read, from an article by Connie Lin and first published earlier this month in business e-magazine, Fast Company, we discover the surprising causes of a country’s economic growth thanks to business travel. It’s a compelling argument, different to what you might expect.
Have Attitudes Towards Business Travel Changed?
By now you will have realised that the way in which we travel has changed. But with travel managers now being given the green light to relaunch their travel programmes, many are wondering if their colleagues attitudes towards travel have changed as well?
BTN Europe Podcast
BTN Europe has launched a new podcast series featuring a panel of experts who will discuss the latest issues facing the managed travel industry. Episode 1, featuring our own CCO, David Bishop, explores the implications of ongoing travel restrictions in Europe on business travel.
Traveller Polls
Our Commercial Director, David Bishop, recently joined a panel of experts for the HSBC Commercial Cards Online Seminar to discuss what the future of business travel will look like in a post COVID-19 world. This seminar gave the panel the perfect opportunity to ask their attendees how their businesses were preparing to restart their travel programmes and if they were seeing traveller confidence returning.
New Technology Innovations for Enhanced Traveller Safety
As we continue the emergence from lockdown and see international travel gradually begin to resume across the world, we’ve looked at what innovative new technologies are paving the way for safety, more hygienic and efficient travel.
Airline Updates
From new first class lounge facilities and features with British Airways, to free global cover for COVID-19 from Emirates; the measures being implemented by airlines to help build traveller confidence mean that international business travel is safely back on the menu.
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