If you have traveled since March 2000, you are well aware that travel as it applies to hotels today is different — there is a changing face of hotel travel. Early in the pandemic, the changes were made out of necessity to ensure health and safety, and deal with a
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel Uncertainty makes prognosticators out of us all. And when something has a wide and pervasive impact like Covid-19, it’s not difficult to let our minds wander about what the future might hold. There are the doomsayers who believe every calamity gives way to another
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
Renae Bathke was busy enough as the senior accounting manager for Edina, Minn. – based ARKRAY USA before being faced with managing a corporate travel program during a global pandemic, but thanks to the resources developed by Acendas Travel, her challenges during this most unusual time have been lessened. “I
Ken Augustine, Vice President of Travel Technology It’s been said that necessity is the mother of invention. That came into clear focus for the Acendas Travel team approximately five years ago as travelers were rapidly adopting technology to aid both their business and personal travel. We knew that in order
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
