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    3 Reasons Meetings Costs are Slipping through the Cracks of Procurement

    Procurement leaders are well-versed at cutting every possible cent from a managed travel program, particularly during periods where cost savings are a priority. For meetings, however, it’s a bit more complicated. Always a challenging catego...

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    Small Meetings, Big Expense: Why Procurement Needs a New Approach

    If 2021 and 2022 were the years for reopening and returning to “normal” for corporate travel and meetings, then 2023 is the year of cost-cut...
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    4 Ways Meeting Planning Software Makes Travel Logistics Easier

    There is no denying that international meeting planning can be a pretty stressful endeavor, and that businesses are eager to find a one-stop...
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    5 Tips to Become a Successful Corporate Travel Planner

    Corporate travel planning is no small undertaking, especially in today's precarious economic and socio-political climate. Businesses are bal...
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    Why You Need Software For Your International Meeting Planning Needs

    How do you maintain company culture with a distributed workforce? How do you instill connection when people are dotted around the globe? How...
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    How to Find the Best Options for a Retreat Meeting

    The company retreat meeting is slowly getting a much-needed makeover. There’s a special magic that happens when we get the entire team toget...
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    How to Keep Business Travel Costs On Budget

    By 2020, global business travel spending was expected to reach 1.1 trillion euros. However, pre-pandemic, business travel was in the top 5 h...