If you have traveled since March 2000, you are well aware that travel as it applies to hotels today is different — there is a changing face of hotel travel. Early in the pandemic, the changes were made out of …
Traveler Safety Infographics
Our parent BCD Travel last year created a series of four Infographics, providing broader travel risk advice beyond pandemic issues. The full return of business travel was then delayed by the appearance of new variants. Now is the time to …
When You Need Options – We Have Them
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel We’ve all been there before. You’re traveling, when all of the sudden you get a text that your flight is canceled. So, after moments of despair, the scrambling begins. If you do not use …
The Crystal Ball is Optimistic
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It truly has been an interesting last 20 months. In March 2020, the world was rocked with a pandemic that nearly brought interaction to a grinding halt. Thankfully, medical science and outstanding health professionals …
Is Managed Travel Right for You?
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel I’ll be the first to admit that managed travel is not for every business or company. If your associates take relatively simple and infrequent trips, and if your annual air, hotel and rental car …
Just Different, but Still Valuable — and in Some Ways Better
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel Uncertainty makes prognosticators out of us all. And when something has a wide and pervasive impact like Covid-19, it’s not difficult to let our minds wander about what the future might hold. There are …
Gazing into Crystal Ball: the Hotel RFP Process for 2022
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s deja vu all over again. At this time last year, businesses and travel management companies were facing uncertainty as they planned hotel programs for 2021. In response, most of the contractual arrangements were …
Will there Still be a Mint on the Pillow?
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel With good reason, much of the discussion about the return of travel has focused on airplanes and airports. But now that a significant amount of people are criss-crossing the country and venturing outside the …
You are Telling Us That…
Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel You need support in your travel. With each passing day, the world is opening up to a greater degree and the number of travelers is increasing. However, we are quickly learning the return to travel …
Five Trends in Travel – Post Pandemic
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel If you look at the TSA numbers, you might be inclined to say everything is back to normal when it comes to travel. But if you take a deeper look at the data, you …
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