The BCD Travel Research and Intelligence team has published its 2024 outlook for economic prospects, key risks, projected prices for air, hotel, and car rental, sustainable travel trends, and more.
BCD is partnering with Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) to provide workforce development experiences to highly skilled and educated transitioning service members, veterans, military spouses and caregivers in the U.S. military community. Hiring Our Heroes connects participants with American businesses to create economic opportunity and a strong and diversified workforce.
BCD won the ‘Travel Partner of the Year – Large TMC’ award at the Business Travel Awards Europe 2023 in London and TMC of the Year at the Zakenreis Awards 2023 in the Netherlands.
As the leading life sciences travel management and meetings company, BCD’s Life Science Center of Excellence (LSCOE) services over 100 organizations in this sector across travel, meetings and consulting, including 90% of the top 20 pharmas in the world. Get to know the team.
One major barrier to clinical trial participation is economic stability. Many people, especially those experiencing health crises, simply do not have the financial means to participate in the trials. The BCD Travel Life Sciences Center of Excellence (LSCOE) works with organizations to remove financial barriers to patient access, helping increase participation and decrease trial attrition.
Jonathan Kao, the current Managing Director for Greater China, will assume an expanded role as the Managing Director for North Asia, effective January 1, 2024. Kao will oversee BCD Travel’s operations in China, Hong Kong, and Japan.
Smarter sourcing begins with understanding market conditions, internal drivers for travel, and specific needs across stakeholder groups.
BCD Travel, Advito and BCD Media & Entertainment will attend conferences in Amsterdam, Hamburg and London in November. Check out our schedule below.
Nationals from the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) will be first to benefit from the United Kingdom (UK) Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) scheme. Applications are now open for Qatari nationals.
Sustainability isn’t just climate concerns and carbon actions. To be sustainable, you need to focus on people. And people are at the heart of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategies. BCD Senior Vice President of DE&I Yvette Bryant shares how Sustainability and DE&I work together, with insight into BCD’s journey.
BCD Senior Vice President Kathy Bedell and BCD TV host Chad Lemon met at GBTA Convention 2023 in Dallas to discuss protecting the LGBTQ+ mobile workforce. Kathy Bedell’s take: Information is power when it comes to pre-, during and post-trip preparation and feedback from travelers.
The A21 Walk For Freedom took place across the world on Saturday, Oct. 14. The annual event raises awareness and funds to end human trafficking. This year, BCD Travel staffers across the regions were among the tens of thousands of participants. The walk took place in over 425 communities in more than 56 countries and reached nearly 800 million people through media. Here’s what some of our people had to say about their experience.
GBTA + VDR Europe Conference 2023 – Hamburg is the place to be Nov. 14-16. If you’re planning to attend the show, please book an appointment with the BCD team and add our sessions to your show agenda.
In this episode of BCD TV, our Global COO and CCO Mike Janssen talks about heading into to the end of the year with a positive outlook as economic growth, client wins and employee retention all trend up.
For the fourth consecutive year, BCD Travel has received a Platinum rating from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. With this Platinum rating, we maintain our position in the top 1% of the 100,000+ companies assessed by EcoVadis. As part of the assessment, BCD has been rated as ‘Advanced’ in EcoVadis’ Carbon Action Module. The module is a comprehensive carbon management solution integrated with EcoVadis ratings to engage suppliers and drive decarbonization across the supply chain.
The GBTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), recently announced their 2023 WINiT Top 50 lists for outstanding women professionals in travel. BCD’s Alexandria “Ali” Prejean Smith, Director, Marketing & Communications, was named a WINiT Rising Female Leader. Teri Miller, Executive Vice President, was recognized in the FollowHER Legends and Mentors category.
Hyatt Hotels Corporation recently announced World of Hyatt is celebrating the changing seasons by encouraging travelers to take advantage of a new global promotion for memorable getaways.
Take a few moments to search sustainability online, and you’ll get more than 2.8 billion results. Search any related terms – Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); climate action; corporate social responsibility (CSR); or net zero – and the results also number in the hundreds of millions to billions. The takeaway: sustainability is serious business – and it’s time we all think bigger and act more broadly. That’s why BCD’s vision for sustainability – and our definition of it – encompasses many areas, not just carbon footprints.
Go from days of waiting for an invoice to 10 seconds with BCD’s digital service. Designed to help teams quickly and easily search across all BCD Travel invoices and invoice data, BCD Pay Digital Invoice Management allows travel managements teams to eliminate the hassle of existing manual processes.
Business Travel Show Europe 2023 took place June 28-29 at ExCel in London. It’s the largest exhibition and conference for the European corporate travel community. Watch BCD TV highlights from the show and hear what some of our people had to say.
Check out the lineup of BCD and Advito speakers for GBTA Convention 2023. Our experts will be on site and in education sessions, covering impactful topics for managed travel programs, including best practices and innovations in payment data; LGBTQ-specific travel risk considerations; air program negotiations and air distribution. Attend our sessions then stop by our booth for some face time with us.
Stephan Baars this week assumed the role of BCD Travel president and CEO. He worked as BCD’s global CFO for 11 years before spending six years as CEO of BORON, the private investment company of BCD founder John Fentener van Vlissingen. Baars returns with a vision of building on the company’s success.
Travel managers, are you getting every benefit from our award-winning travel management app? Here are three simple ways to check in with TripSource and make sure you’re putting it to good use!
BCD’s Lucy Norman, Senior Manager, People & Culture, is a shortlist finalist for “People Manager of the Year” in the Business Travel People Awards 2023. The category is new this year to honor an individual who has made a significant and positive impact on their organization through excellent people management skills.
BCD Travel has published two podcast episodes focusing on sustainability. Tune in to these discussions on how sustainability is more than just being green.