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The Nordic Business Travel Summit (NBTS) in Stockholm has been postponed by its organizers to March 2021. Please visit the event page for more details.

Advito’s Olivier Benoit will present a pre-show session on airline contracts Feb. 25, to help kick off Europe’s largest specialized conference for international travel buyers and bookers.

An Advito awareness campaign guided a California company’s travelers to an app that simplifies trips and improves traveler experiences. Adoption rose nearly 400%.

Torsten Kriedt, senior vice president, Mid-market Solutions EMEA, has developed new service packages that enable EMEA clients to implement professional travel management quick and easily. Find out more in his Q&A

Prior to the global spread of the novel coronavirus, the World Economic Forum published its annual Global Risk Report, in which environmental risks ranked high for the first time. BCD Travel Research & Innovation’s Mike Eggleton explains what this could mean for business travel.

Hotel Price Assurance Technology from BCD Travel drives corporate travel savings by monitoring hotel room reservations and rebooking if the price drops. When used in alignment with a company’s business goals and corporate culture, Hotel Price Assurance balances travel savings with traveler experience.

Small steps can have big results for corporate travel programs because they make travel buyer’s goals easier to achieve, as BCD Travel’s Heinz Jennewein explains in a new LinkedIn post.

BCD Travel clients in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Czech Republic and Poland can now book flights, hotel nights and rental cars in one app, all in line with the travel policy. More markets in EMEA and North America will follow soon.

BCD Travel offers advice on finding the right expense tool for your program.

Multinational pizza restaurant chain relies on a single view of employee data to improve duty of care for travelers and local employees. A bonus: Booking compliance has risen 21 percentage points.

Managing corporate travel to increase sustainability has rapidly morphed from a feel-good nicety to an absolute necessity. Research shows business travelers are calling for more eco-friendly travel options, and companies are listening. BCD Travel’s Tony McGetrick offers three ways travel buyers can jump-start sustainability using program management tactics already in their toolkits.

The newly formed BCD Travel Italy offers corporate travel, M&E and travel consolidation services.

A new set of sustainability-focused services from Advito and parent company BCD Travel will help clients find ways to reduce travel demand and mitigate the environmental impact of business travel. The new service is called Sustainable Collaboration.

Aircraft maker Boeing has been in crisis mode since two of its 737 Max jets crashed, one in October 2018 and the other in March 2019, killing 346 people. All Max flights were halted around the world after the second crash. The grounding of Max planes is having an impact on business travel worldwide, but Europe is particularly exposed.

Fifty-eight percent of surveyed female business travelers said they have changed travel plans because they felt unsafe. Destination, environment and time of day can heighten the chance of an incident. BCD Travel has compiled four tips to help keep women travelers safer on trips.