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While each location and chain are handling things a little differently, hotel safety is ramping up in business travel destinations around the world. COVID-19 has changed nearly everything about the business travel process, hotel safety included. Visit a hotel in fall 2020, and you’ll find that contact is severely curtailed, that hand sanitizer is availableRead more

Our favorite travel technologies for your next business trip (or around the office). Sometimes traveling for work can be a real slog. Business Travelers experience flight delays and jet lag, and then there’s the time away from home and family. But today, Travelers do enjoy several high tech travel tools that can make life onRead more

What does flying safe mean during the COVID-19 outbreak? We’ve created resources to help you get back to business travel in a way that promotes health. Travel is the lifeblood of many companies. Without the opportunity to meet with existing clients and to make proposals to potential clients, the business of doing business grinds toRead more

As face coverings become a part of everyday life, airlines enforcing safety masks is likely to bring legal questions and in-flight drama. Walk into any grocery store in the summer of 2020, and you’re likely to see a sign telling guests to wear a mask. The same is true of hardware stores and fashion retailersRead more

This blog was updated July, 2020 Make sure you’re getting the most out of your business travel when you select your best choice from among business travel card options. Your business travel spend can have some hidden benefits — if you choose to use the right credit card for spend management. If you often travelRead more

As a Travel Manager, it’s important to understand the varying experiences that your team members will face. For example, traveling as a person of color (especially in international destinations) will be far different than the experience of others. How can Travel Managers prepare people of color for business travel? Are there special best practices orRead more

The COVID-19 outbreak will change a lot of things about day-to-day life. Thankfully for Executives and their Travelers, coronavirus will change business travel for the better. The emergence of COVID-19 has changed the look and feel of travel. Those who have hit the road for work have found quite airport terminals, car rental lots loadedRead more

Airlines, hotels and other travel vendors are making loyalty program changes to keep their businesses moving forward in the age of COVID-19. The COVID-19 outbreak spread around the world in spring 2020, bringing life to a halt and damaging a number of different industries — the travel industry included. Airlines, hotels and car rental companiesRead more

Business travel has mostly been on pause since the outbreak of COVID-19. Executives should be planning how to restart business travel programs in a way that keeps travelers safe and supports business objectives. COVID-19 stopped a number of day-to-day activities when it expanded across the United States in March. Restaurants closed. Sports leagues paused theirRead more

Over the past few weeks, like many others, we have found ourselves looking for answers and direction. Recent events surrounding the unjust death of George Floyd and other Black people who have been wrongly killed due to prejudice have put the spotlight on this long-standing issue of racial injustice.  At JTB Business Travel, we knewRead more