Business Travel Trade Group Looks to Move Past Pandemic, Internal Controversies
Photo Credit: The GBTA convention in 2019. GBTA
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The Global Business Travel Association has had a rough ride over the past two years. Its convention in Orlando later this month represents a chance to turn a corner, and it wants to bring the industry along with it.
It was one crisis after another. Complaints of misogyny, sexism, racism and bullying were made against the leader of the world’s biggest travel trade association, and then the pandemic took hold.
Up until June last year, then-CEO Scott Solombrino had been a part of the U.S.-based Global Business Travel Association for 25 years, but members hit out following alleged controversial remarks.
Now, present executive director and CEO Suzanne Neufang, who joined in February this year, believes the organization has turned a corner, and its convention in Orlando, Florida later this month will be a “coming out" moment, she said.
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