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    How Travel Managers Can Reduce Leakage from Small Meetings

    How much travel spend occurs before you even know a meeting is being planned? For Travel Managers, small and midsized meetings like team offsites, training sessions, or leadership gatherings, are often a blind spot. Many times individual te...

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    How EAs Can Create More Value Through Better Meeting Planning

    Planning in-person meetings is one of the clearest opportunities Executive Assistants (EAs) have to influence how work gets done at an organ...
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    Who Should Evaluate Your Meeting Planning Software

    Most Travel Managers approach a software evaluation with a familiar playbook: align with Procurement, define requirements, consider vendors,...
    GBTA 2026
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    3 Takeaways from GBTA 2026 for Travel Managers

    Every year, the GBTA conference is a useful opportunity to step outside of the day-to-day and listen closely to what Travel Managers are thi...
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    Spotnana Acquires TROOP to Accelerate Innovation in Meetings and Events

    Customers can now benefit from a single, unified solution for meetings, events, and transient travel built on modern infrastructure. NEW YOR...
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    5 Business Travel Trends: Managing the Small Meetings Gap

    The boundary between corporate travel and small meeting management has been shifting. According to Business Travel Show Europe research, 60....
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    6 Meeting Attendee Planning Styles Every EA Should Be Prepared For

    No two attendees approach an in-person meeting the same way. Some book travel early, follow every instruction, and arrive fully prepared. Ot...