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  • GBTA

    GBTA Convention Connects Travel Industry

      The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) recently hosted its GBTA Convention 2026, welcoming 5,500 attendees from 47 countries for the industry’s largest annual gathering and a week of discussions focused on the future of business travel. Held August 3 to 5 at Chicago’s McCormick Place, GBTA Convention 2026 convened business travel buyers, suppliers, innovators, policymakers, volunteer leaders and partners to connect, learn and help shape the future of the global business travel industry. This year’s convention brought together nearly…

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  • Four reasons why you should attend professional association meetings

    As an association manager, I’m regularly coming up reasons why professionals should join their industry associations, and different ways to market and share their value propositions – and yet, there is still work to do around awareness in our own meeting planning industry! How do you get your professional development? What networks have you joined? Is it time to start being more active in your industry’s association? Or, maybe you’ve already had a full career and it’s time to give…

    Career Development, Meeting Community, People & Profiles, The Business of Meetings

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