NBTA Europe Announces Series of Virtual Forums on Travel Management
Wednesday 06 January 2010
Buyer-led Network at Heart of Business Travel Issues
NBTA Europe, the new network of European buyer-led associations created to provide information and networking to professionals in the business travel and meetings industry, has announced a unique series of four Virtual Forums covering the foremost topics in travel management .
In addition to offering members a premier educational experience, the Virtual Forums will explore the application of high-end video conference technology for meetings and the potential implications for travel and meetings programmes. The forums will span four international locations on each occasion with up to thirty global travel buyers invited to join the debate.
The first Virtual Forum has been announced as taking place on the 30th March 2010 across London, New York, Paris and Frankfurt. The full format will be announced in the coming weeks.
In addition to Virtual Forums, NBTA Europe will hold a full autumn conference, for which details will be announced soon.
Speaking about the scheduled events to date, Paul Tilstone, Managing Director of NBTA Europe, said, "To be involved in such interesting events when NBTA Europe has only just been created is great. I expect both of these event formats to create some fascinating outputs for the members of NBTA Europe and its partner organisations. This is just the start of things to come from the network."
About NBTA Europe
NBTA Europe is the only buyer-led business travel and meetings industry network across Europe. The network is part of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA), the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organisation, with a role to lead debate, networking, education, advocacy, events and innovation in the business travel and meetings sector. NBTA Europe represents more than 2,000 regional corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. Members of the network collectively manage and direct more than €100 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 3 million business travelers within their organisations.
NBTA Europe is powered by the Institute of Travel & Meetings (ITM). For more information, visit www.nbtaeurope.org
About NBTA
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organisation. NBTA and its regional affiliates - NBTA Asia Pacific, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Europe, NBTA Mexico, and NBTA USA - serve a network of more than 17,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 5,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 13 million business travelers within their organisations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
About ITM
The Institute of Travel & Meetings UK & Ireland (ITM), previously the Institute of Travel Management, was established over 50 years ago to promote knowledge, networks and opportunities within the business travel sector. The association presently represents over 1,000 professional buyers and suppliers with a travel & meetings spend in excess of £34 billion per annum and over 50% of the FTSE 100.
Visit our website:www.itm.org.uk
