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
You’ve made the decision to implement a managed travel program – and then reality hits you square in the face: you have to implement it across the company. There are many considerations that go into deciding to use a particular travel management company, but one should not be an afterthought
By Terri Barton, VP of Corporate Travel, Acendas Travel The corporate travel industry recently took a strong dose of its own medicine as it congregated in San Diego for the 2022 GBTA (Global Business Travel Association) Conference. Unlike sparsely attended events over the prior two years, the halls and meeting
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
Our parent BCD Travel last year created a series of four Infographics, providing broader travel risk advice beyond pandemic issues. The full return of business travel was then delayed by the appearance of new variants. Now is the time to once again to remind travelers of the wider risks they
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said: “What gets measured, gets managed.” It is a simple, yet powerful concept we can apply across a wide spectrum of our lives. From a business perspective, companies are constantly enhancing data collection to identify how they may better measure performance, thus
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel We’ve all been there before. You’re traveling, when all of the sudden you get a text that your flight is canceled. So, after moments of despair, the scrambling begins. If you do not use a travel management company, then the situation can be dire.
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It truly has been an interesting last 20 months. In March 2020, the world was rocked with a pandemic that nearly brought interaction to a grinding halt. Thankfully, medical science and outstanding health professionals reacted in haste and skill to address our challenges. Likewise,
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 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
