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 …
Meeting You on Your Terms and on Time
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said: “What gets measured, gets managed.” It is a simple, yet powerful concept we can apply across a wide spectrum of our lives. From a business perspective, companies are constantly enhancing data …
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 …
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel If there is one thing that can be said for the travel industry, it is resilient. Over the course of history, it has been knocked down by weather, political unrest, economic struggles and pandemics. …
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 …
Playing the Long Game
By Brent Blake, President, Acendas Travel It’s been said that in business you win some and you lose some. I’ve been around long enough to know you don’t dwell much on the losses. But I have to admit it …