By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It is indeed proper that the 40th anniversary is known as the “ruby” anniversary because it stands for the burning flame of passion that has sustained the relationship for four decades and supplies energy in moving forward. While the anniversary of a company’s start
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel I’ll be the first to admit that managed travel is not for every business or company. If your associates take relatively simple and infrequent trips, and if your annual air, hotel and rental car spend is less than $250,000, then perhaps it makes sense
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said that in business you win some and you lose some. I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t dwell much on the losses. But I have to admit it sticks with me a little longer when a current client
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel Everyone has a story to tell about how Covid-19 has affected them. Given the depth of the pandemic, it is a story which will no doubt continue to be refined for years to come. From the perspective of Acendas Travel, we are seeing positive
Terri Barton, Vice President Corporate Travel The growth of technology applications in the travel industry over the past decade has obviously created efficiencies, but perhaps more important, it has also allowed for the compilation of large amounts of data to measure and monitor corporate travel programs — and ultimately make
By Brent Blake Over the past 14 months, it is the one question I have been asked more times than any other. Perhaps people did not put it in those terms, but our clients (both business and leisure), suppliers, business partners — even our staff — all wanted to know.
Travel has become more complicated with the advent of the pandemic, but it can be executed with proper structures and processes in place; and resources to support the traveler. With the assistance of company travel administrators and Acendas Travel, support for the business traveler occurs before one leaves and extends
By Ken Augustine, Vice President of Travel Technology Several years ago in a meeting with a business prospect, one of its principals remarked that he came to the meeting thinking he was securing travel, but what he was actually doing was investing in technology. Our team looked at each other
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
