MOVING FORWARD
THE BLOG FOR BUSINESS TRAVEL PROFESSIONALS
Why Online Adoption is Important
Booking in-policy with your travel management company is fundamental to driving an efficient travel programme. Doing so using your TMC’s online booking tools ensures you can achieve the very best ROI and savings.
Generation BTA
We’re thrilled to announce that our very own Marketing Consultant, Sonam Popat, has been selected to join the Generation BTA Advisory Board, created by the Business Travel Association. The Generation BTA Board will work in groups to tackle issues, directly facing within the industry to bring about positive change.
Travel Talks 3: How To Control Your Travel Costs
In this episode of Travel Talks, our Chief Commercial Officer, Warren Dix is joined by Wates’ Group Procurement Director, David Oates, to discuss how to effectively control business travel costs. The webinar is packed full of tips and advice on how to drive down costs and identify savings in your corporate travel programme.
9 Reasons Why You Should Be Using An Event Management Agency
We recently caught up with our friends and colleagues over in Gray Dawes Events to understand why it’s so important to have an expert on your side when to comes to organising business meetings, incentives, conferences and events. In fact, there are nine reasons why…
Thursday’s Child
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.
Take To The Skies with Air Canada
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.
Podium Traveller Wellbeing
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.
Transport Secretary Anne Marie Trevelyan MP
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.
GBTA Convention 2022
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.
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Credit & Debit Cards Abroad
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.
The CEO Interview
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!
Ventur Travel
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.
The Doyle Experience
Need inspiration for your next hotel stay? Or how about a venue for your next corporate event? We caught up with our friends at the Doyle Collection to learn more about their stunning properties.
Aviation Passenger Charter
In the wake of airport passenger caps and flight cancellations, a new ‘Aviation Passenger Charter’, launched by the British government in consultation with travel management companies, aims to protect passengers, by ensuring that they are aware of their rights if they are confronted with issues when travelling.
Face to Face
A new report looking at the future of business travel in the post Covid world finds that 89 per cent of office workers are confident that face-to-face meeting will become the norm again by the end of the year, with around 60 per cent seeing see “some office attendance as vital for sharing business intelligence and better client servicing”.
Getting Ready For Summer
Damian Hinds, the Security Minister at the Home Office, recently shared with us and fellow BTA members a personal letter, detailing what the UK Border Control is doing to prepare for the busy summer period, specifically with business travellers in mind. Not only is this useful information for the corporate traveller, it shows the importance the Home Office places on the business travel industry, and the value of influence and collaboration between government and TMCs.
Travel Talks 2: How To Achieve A Sustainable Travel Programme
This fascinating Travel Talks covers how to achieve travel sustainability within your organisation and provides insights into what both Gray Dawes and our guest, EasyJet, are proactively doing in this space.
Building a bright future for business travel
Thankfully, travel is firmly back on the agenda and the pent-up desire to get away has helped the industry bounce back. Challenges remain, and Gray Dawes is here to help face them down as much as we possibly can do.
All Over The Place
At this point in the remote work revolution, as more and more people have tapped into the potential of work-from-anywhere models, we’ve woken up to some things. Some barriers to access have been removed, and we’re able to engage people who didn’t have the time or ability before.
All Things Avanti
We recently caught up with Avanti West Coast to hear about their sustainability objectives and how their Pendolino refurbishment programme is making a real difference to business travel by rail on the West Coast Mainline.
Business Travel Awards
The 2022 Business Travel Europe Awards, organised by the BTN Group, recognise and celebrate the industry’s response to what has been an extremely challenging time for the business travel industry, as the sector’s recovery is led by outstanding organisations like Gray Dawes Travel.
Event Planning Tips
As life begins to get back to a new kind of normal, we have to accept that Covid-19 has changed things… and that includes how you manage meetings, incentive trips and conferences for your business. We asked our colleagues over in Gray Dawes Events for their TOP 5 TIPS on planning a corporate event in a post-pandemic world.
Top 5 MICE Destinations
With international travel now firmly back on the agenda, we asked our colleagues over in Gray Dawes Events for the TOP 5 destinations you should consider for your next corporate event. Check out this article and video for their favourite locations… which may surprise you!
Light at the end of the tunnel
It’s clear from the recovery and certainly the demand that we’re seeing across the industry and beyond that business travel is very much back on the agenda. Gray Dawes CCO Warren Dix explores the Covid-19 aftershock felt across industries and the light at the end of the tunnel.
Top Travel Tips
Did you miss our first Travel Talks webinar on how to build your travellers’ confidence in a post-pandemic and post-Brexit world? Don’t worry, here we present the top tips shared by Operations Manager, Julie Hamstead-Wallis, and Director of Client Development, Gavin Sanderson.
All Things AVIS
We recently caught up with our friends at Avis to learn about all the latest developments with the car hire specialists, including their loyalty programme, Avis Preferred, how business travellers can manage rentals on the go with the Avis App and much more.
Managing Mental Health
To mark Mental Health Awareness Month, we reached out to TravelHealthPro to help identify the key mental health issues facing business travellers and to offer practical guidance on what they can do to identify and alleviate the symptoms.
Travel Talks 1: How to Build Traveller Confidence
In the first episode of our exciting new webinar series, Travel Talks, Julie Hamstead-Wallis and Gavin Sanderson explore rebuilding traveller confidence in a post-pandemic, post-Brexit world.
Border Force
We recently caught up with our colleagues and contacts at UK Border Force to learn what’s happening at British ports are airports, now that international travel is returning in earnest, and learn what this means for business travellers.
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