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Travel Outlook for 2021: Why You Might Need Us More than Ever

Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel NOTE: Acendas Travel President Brent Blake and Senior Vice President Joe Curtis sat down to discuss their outlook for travel in 2021. Watch the video here. I won’t spoil it and give away all of the plot in the aforementioned video, but let’s just say

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Controlling the Controllable

NOTE: Acendas Travel was recently honored by the Kansas City Business Journal along with 15 other Kansas City businesses as a 2020 Champion of Business. The program honors metro area for-profit companies that set the gold standard for financial performance, innovation and community involvement. Acendas Travel is a corporate supporter

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BCD – Acendas Travel Partnership Provides the Right Fit

By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel Some 20 years ago, Acendas Travel struck a partnership with BCD Travel, one of the world’s largest purchasers of corporate travel. The focus of the relationship was to share buying power and technology assets. Since that time, the Acendas – BCD relationship has developed

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Acendas Travel Announces Staff Promotions, Changes in Operations, Processes

Acendas Travel President Brent Blake has announced a restructuring of its corporate travel division that will create efficiencies and fill gaps that were identified as result of the Coronavirus pandemic. “The business slowdown created by the pandemic brought to the surface some operational and process issues that were not present

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It’s Time to Listen — and Act

By Brent Blake I am not a big cable television news watcher, but found myself more attentive to it once the Coronavirus pandemic hit because there were direct personal and professional consequences involved.  I have family, friends and employees at risk, some of them to a much higher degree than

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Dipping Our Toe in the Water

By Brent Blake Our role as a travel management company is to be your partner in achieving success. We are not here to tell you that you must travel, when you must travel or where you must travel. If travel is a tactic that helps you to achieve success, then

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St. Louis-based Gwin’s Travel rebrands to Acendas Travel

Company began in St. Louis in 1979   Mission, Kan. – The award-winning services remain the same, but the name Gwin’s Travel has changed. After 41 years operating as Gwin’s Travel, today it takes the name of Acendas Travel. A full service travel agency headquartered in Kansas City since 1982,

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The Future of Travel

By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel “The virus will tell us.” Who can forget the now famous quote by Dr. Tony Fauci, the inspirational director at the National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, when asked about the removal of restrictions on public gatherings. That was then, and still is

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“Can’t Wait to Say Wheels Up”

By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel When everyone is sharing in the pain of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is a futile exercise to say one group is challenged more than another—especially when we are relatively early in the battle and tough times remain. However, I do use this opportunity to express

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