Recent BTN Europe Issues

Spring 2023
Spring 2023

Connected Content: The distribution issue
• Setting the scene: To appreciate today’s intricate distribution landscape it’s helpful to understand its circuitous backstory
• Primed for take-off: Few areas of business travel are as divisive as NDC but it is transforming airline distribution whether it’s welcomed or not
• Central reservations: The distribution landscape’s backbone for decades, legacy global distribution systems are now grappling with keeping content together
• In the thick of it: As travel content becomes increasingly fragmented, travel management companies are facing a battle to knit all parties together
• Beyond the margins: Air travel might dominate, but the distribution of rail content – and hotels – presents challenges for all parties too, but is progress imminent?
• At the coalface: The evolution of travel distribution is manifesting in ways that aren’t all music to travel managers’ ears

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Winter 2022
Winter 2022

Powered Up: the travel tech report
• Switched on: Has Covid slowed or accelerated innovation?
• Power tools: 2023 heralds booking tool evolution
• Change is in the air: Distribution update
• Do it yourself: Microservices and unbundling
• New kids on the block: Self-sovereign identity
• Missing pieces: The travel tech the industry is lacking

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• The 2023 Outlook

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Autumn 2022
Autumn 2022

The Journey Towards Sustainable Business Travel
• Sowing the seeds: Changing attitudes to sustainability
• Less is more: Travel reduction
• Necessary half-measures: Carbon offsets
• The cost of change: Carbon taxes and budgets
• Pay it forward: Sustainable aviation fuel
• Flying high: PwC Netherlands SAF strategy
• In focus: Book-and-claim SAF platforms

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Summer 2022
Summer 2022

Europe's Leading TMCs 2022
• Leading the way: Europe's top TMCs at-a-glance
• Extending their reach: Europe's leading TMC networks
• Market movement: Mergers and acquisitions
• Battling on: The UK's leading TMCs profiled
• Under pressure: Germany's leading TMCs profiled
• Recovery position: France's leading TMCs profiled
• Coming together: Spain's leading TMCs profiled
• Turning it around: Italy's leading TMCs profiled

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Spring 2022
Spring 2022

New Horizons: the 2022 sourcing guide
• Has Covid-19 changed business travel sourcing forever?
• Clearing the air: securing corporate airline deals
• The perfect partner: selecting a TMC
• Continuous considerations: sourcing accommodation
• All aboard: sourcing rail travel
• Bumps in the road: sourcing car rental
• Thinking positive: sourcing socially

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Nov/Dec 2021
Nov/Dec 2021

- The 2022 Outlook
- Vaccine policy: Injection theory
- Travel necessity: Stay or go?
- TMC staffing: Tough calls
- Traveller wellbeing: Fighting fit
- Traveller tracking: Big brother bother?
- High-risk travel: Dangerous territory

 

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Sept/Oct 2021
Sept/Oct 2021

- Duty of care: Caution prevails
- Airline deals: Return to tender?
- Offline versus online: Time for a reboot?
- Diversity on travel
- Sustainability: Hotel headaches
- Travel recovery: On the road again

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July/August 2021
July/August 2021

- Ground transport policy: New directions
- Rail travel: Right on time
- Hotel market: Rate expectations
- Commuting: Blurred lines
- Car rental: Driving change
- Hybrid events: Dual purpose

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May/June 2021
May/June 2021

- Aviation: The plight of flight
- Data: Magic numbers
- Mobility: Red tape rigour
- Legal: Covid compensation
- Meetings & events: Close encounters
- Europe's leading TMCs 2021

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