NOTE: Acendas Travel was recently honored by the Kansas City Business Journal along with 15 other Kansas City businesses as a 2020 Champion of Business. The program honors metro area for-profit companies that set the gold standard for financial performance, …
Acendas Introduces New Itinerary Design
As a means to improve and streamline the manner in which we deliver information to our clients, effective Sept. 14 Acendas Travel will be launching a new and improved invoice and itinerary product. We are introducing this new product because …
BCD – Acendas Travel Partnership Provides the Right Fit
By Joe Curtis, Senior Vice President, Acendas Travel Some 20 years ago, Acendas Travel struck a partnership with BCD Travel, one of the world’s largest purchasers of corporate travel. The focus of the relationship was to share buying power and …
Acendas Travel Announces Staff Promotions, Changes in Operations, Processes
Acendas Travel President Brent Blake has announced a restructuring of its corporate travel division that will create efficiencies and fill gaps that were identified as result of the Coronavirus pandemic. “The business slowdown created by the pandemic brought to the …
Sioux Falls-based Travel Partners Rebrands to Acendas Travel, Effective July 1
Travel Partners, a staple in the Sioux Falls business community is changing its name, but the people who have been part of the award-winning travel agency are staying put. After 20 years operating as Travel Partners, today it takes the …
It’s Time to Listen — and Act
By Brent Blake I am not a big cable television news watcher, but found myself more attentive to it once the Coronavirus pandemic hit because there were direct personal and professional consequences involved. I have family, friends and employees at …
Dipping Our Toe in the Water
By Brent Blake Our role as a travel management company is to be your partner in achieving success. We are not here to tell you that you must travel, when you must travel or where you must travel. If travel …
St. Louis-based Gwin’s Travel rebrands to Acendas Travel
Company began in St. Louis in 1979 Mission, Kan. – The award-winning services remain the same, but the name Gwin’s Travel has changed. After 41 years operating as Gwin’s Travel, today it takes the name of Acendas Travel. A …