The BTN Group has established the Business Travel Sustainability Awards Europe, with 12 free-to-enter categories to acknowledge companies and individuals championing environmental sustainability.
Entries will open on 21 February and the winners will be announced at the third annual Business Travel Sustainability Summit Europe, scheduled for late spring in London.
The Business Travel Sustainability Awards Europe utilises a two-stage entry process. The application process will ask specifically about the outcome of partnerships and the effects of innovation and will look for tangible, supported results – not only the aspirations that underpin an applicant’s products and services.
See below or click through for the full list of categories, which includes openings for suppliers, corporates and TMCs. Stage one submissions close on 10 March.
Judges will include a mix of corporate travel managers, consultants and other sustainability and ESG experts.
In addition, the BTN Group is launching the Business Travel Sustainability Awards America that will also begin accepting submissions on 21 February from companies based or doing most of their business in North America.
"We are excited to launch the first-of-its-kind awards for the business travel industry," said BTN Group executive vice president & group publisher, Louis Magliaro. "We designed these awards to underscore and encourage advancements in all sectors of the corporate travel eco-system towards a more sustainable future.
“The BTN Group is committed to promoting awareness of what travel buyers and suppliers are doing to reduce the industry’s carbon footprint by recognising the achievements of corporate travel leaders,” he added.
Business Travel Sustainability Awards Europe 2023 categories
- Achievement in Sustainability – Accommodation Providers
- Achievement in Sustainability – Corporate Booking Platform
- Achievement in Sustainability – Airline
- Achievement in Sustainability – TMC
- Achievement in Sustainability – Ground Transportation Provider – Car Rental
- Achievement in Advancing Sustainability Data and Reporting
- Achievement in Sustainability – Ground Transportation Provider – Driver Hire
- Achievement in Sustainability – Meetings & Events
- Achievement in Sustainability – Rail Operator
- Achievement in Sustainability Innovation
- Achievement in Sustainability – Managed Travel Programme
- Sustainability Champion – open to any person working within the business travel eco-system