Category: Blog

It’s Time to Rethink Business Travel – For All Kinds of Businesses

It’s Time to Rethink Business Travel. We’ve spent a lot of time talking about the rebound of business travel. Now we’re ready to talk about the other side of that rebound – the post-rebound need to rethink business travel and how its being booked and managed in this new post-rebound landscape. But business travel is…
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Hotel Rewards Mean Savings + Experience… If You’re Loyal

2023 is in full swing. So is 2023 pricing. You’re likely wondering how you (and your travelers) can get the most bang for your buck. Company-paid upgrades aren’t in a lot of budgets this year. The answer (or part of it anyway) might be in your hotel program rewards and perks. More specifically, in matching…
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Travel for work in a post-pandemic industry? A rebound in review + looking to 2023.

While this time last year we were all debating whether or not we’d see a business travel rebound within the coming days, these past twelve months have silenced most of the rebound doubters with their fast-and-fierce resumption of all things travel. All things. Leisure travelers may have started the charge, but those who travel for…
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Managing Business Travel in 2023: 10 Reasons You’ll Want a TMC

Since March 2020 things have been… interesting. To say the least. Around the globe… Around our towns… At school… At work… In business travel… As we begin to wrap up yet another wild ride of a year, it’s clear that look-ahead travel-program planning is a whole new challenge in this post-pandemic world we live in.…
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The Return to In-Person Meetings and Events: 7 Tips for Corporate Planners

Don’t call it a comeback. Meetings and events have been here for years. Unfortunately, COVID-19 restrictions made it nearly impossible to gather beyond virtual meetings for quite a while. But there’s more to life than staring at a computer screen. We all know that. We’ve all known that. These past years have left most of…
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“I need WHAT to go WHERE?!”

7 Tips for Managing International Business Travel (and travelers) Don’t be that person. Don’t let your travelers be that person either for that matter. You know, that person who, after standing in the international line at the airport for hours…and hours… is caught completely off guard by an entry requirement. International business travel is ramping…
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Renewing Your Passport Could Be Getting Easier: Here’s How

An estimated 53 million American adults left the country this summer, and it’s safe to say international travel is back. Many destinations lifted their pandemic-era travel mandates,though it can still take quite a bit of checking (and re-checking) to go abroad – especially if your passport is expired. But, for those who live in the…
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Gant Travel Launches Travel Solutions Division

August 19, 2022, Bloomington, IN.  Gant Travel, an award-winning travel management company, announces the creation of a new service offering aimed at enabling other travel ecosystem members to harness the benefits of Gant. The new branch, titled ‘Gant’s Travel Solutions’, offers support to corporations seeking efficiencies and quality demonstrated by Gant’s ticketing and call center…
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Seriously, What’s Going On With Domestic Airfare Right Now?

If you travelled at all this summer, you likely became familiar with packed airports, delayed flights, cancelled flights, and of course…higher domestic airfare prices. After more than two years of pandemic-era restrictions, many (if not most) business travelers are willing to put up with all of these setbacks – and then some. All of them.…
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How a Better Profile Can Improve Your Post-Pandemic Travel Experience

Preparing for an upcoming business trip? Finally… right? Maybe it’s been a while since you’ve checked into what’s happening in business travel? What does post-pandemic travel even look like? It can be hard to navigate the current travel landscape alone, especially with the rules continuing to change on a regular basis. Intimidated by all changes that…
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