While travel has by no means made a complete comeback to its pre-COVID days, things are finally starting to get back on track in the industry. However, travel looks a lot different today than it did six months ago. Here’s a brief list of key measures US-based airlines are taking to ensure the safety of their travelers and staff. American Airlines American Airlines is taking additional…
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Nurses. Doctors. Hospitals. Sports clubs. Museums. Schools. Charities. Advocacy groups. Foundations. Gant Travel values the work that so many non-profits and not-for-profits are selflessly undertaking to make the world a better place. Because we know that volunteer and humanitarian work never stops, we want to make it easier for non-profit organizations to get to where they need to…
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While most organizations have put their travel programs on hold, we’re all confident that travel will resume soon. Like everyone, we’re busy preparing for what the new business-travel landscape will look like once the bans and restrictions have been lifted. And, we’re making sure we have the right tools in place to support our clients…
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It’s been about a month since the COVID-19 pandemic took the western world by storm, impacting travel in ways the modern travel industry had never seen. Companies have, for the most part, halted their business travel program and a majority of the country is under some version of a safer-at-home order. People are settling into a new work-life rhythm as they…
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Clearly COVID-19 is alien to us. “How long until’… we can expect “a new normal” that is economically sustainable? “I don’t mean to rain on anyone’s parade here…,”(shout out to the late great Bill Paxton), but COVID-19 is here to stay and for all we know, COVID-20 is hiding in ambush between the shingles of some armadillo-looking creature that is supposed to work like Viagra if you snort its dried up skin. (As the boomers get older… ) In reality, the stress that customers, teams, and each…
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Award-Winning Gant Travel to Offer Simple Meetings Solution to SMBs Top SAP Concur Partner Gant Travel leading the way to help their Small and Medium Businesses manage simple meetings via their new product “Gant TogetherSM.” Bloomington, IN (March 12, 2020) Gant Travel, the award-winning provider of innovative travel solutions, today announced that it will provide…
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With global travel bans and restrictions in place, the number of canceled reservations and issued airline waivers are at unprecedented highs. To say the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted business travel would be an incredible understatement. We wanted to make sure you remembered that we do not charge a fee just to cancel a reservation with an agent.…
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Is your travel program harnessing attributes of the well-run program?
According to Forbes, “happy employees are up to 20% more productive than unhappy employees.” Happiness has an even greater impact on salespeople. It’s shown to increase sales by as much as 37%. But how can you ensure employee happiness when they’re out of office but still traveling for work? If you’ve ever traveled, business or leisure, you know that your mood sinks quickly when your flight is delayed, your card gets shut off for…
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With the recent Coronavirus outbreak taking center stage globally and new travel restrictions being implemented regularly, we continue to monitor and evaluate the business-travel landscape, both for our internal teams and our impacted client travelers.
