About American Express Global Business Travel
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) is a leading software and services company for travel, expense, and meetings & events. We have built the most valuable marketplace in travel with the most comprehensive and competitive content. A choice of solutions brought to you through a strong combination of technology and people, delivering the best experiences, proven at scale.
With travel professionals and business partners in more than 140 countries, our solutions deliver savings, flexibility, and service from a brand you can trust – Amex GBT.
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GBTA: The Voice of the Global Business Travel Industry
GBTA Mission
GBTA’s mission is to be the leading source of business travel knowledge worldwide. This knowledge is created through education, research, networking and advocacy delivered on demand.
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We believe relationships create value.
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is the world’s premier business travel and meetings trade organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area with operations on six continents. GBTA’s members manage more than $345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA delivers world-class education, events, research, advocacy, and media to a growing global network of more than 28,000 travel professionals and 125,000 active contacts.
Our focus is to equip our members with the knowledge and resources necessary to navigate the rapidly changing business travel landscape resulting in improved managed travel programs, top line business growth, and exemplary careers. We do this through the following:
Specialized Events
Attend the largest gatherings of business travel professionals at GBTA events, online webinars, and education sessions close to home, in your region, and around the world.
Professional Development
Power your career with business travel education and certification to fuel recognition and career advancement. Education for every level within the business travel industry.
Research and Industry Tools
Access the world’s largest collection of business travel industry research, RFP templates, benchmarking tools and archived webinars.
Keep current on news, editorials and perspectives that bring to life the latest business travel industry insights, trends, advocacy, events, research and education.
GBTA relies upon experienced and dedicated business travel industry professionals to guide its strategy and direction to better serve our members at large, and the business travel industry.
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Work at GBTA
Want to work in a dynamic work environment for a progressive and growing organization? Love the business travel industry? We’re always looking for talented people to bring innovative ideas and reliable execution to our team!
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GBTA, Our Voice
GBTA advocates for an open and competitive business travel marketplace that allows for pricing transparency, passenger safety, improved infrastructure, and regulations that support business objectives.
GBTA is headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area. GBTA connects the people that connect the world.
GBTA prides itself on its accessibility and transparency. Please feel free to review GBTA’s recent Business and Financial forms, filings and reports
Business Information
Bylaws as of May 2021
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GBTA 2022 Annual Meeting Minutes GBTA 2021 Annual Meeting Minutes GBTA 2020 Annual Meeting Minutes GBTA 2019 Annual Meeting Minutes GBTA 2018 Annual Meeting Minutes GBTA 2017 Annual Meeting Minutes
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American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT, legally, Global Business Travel Group, Inc.) is a multinational travel management company headquartered in New York City. Amex GBT has 18,000 employees in more than 140 countries.
American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is the world’s leading B2B travel platform, providing software and services to manage travel, expenses, and meetings & events for companies of all sizes.
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is the world’s premier business travel and meetings trade organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area serving stakeholders across six continents.
Business travel is travel undertaken for work or business purposes, as opposed to other types of travel, such as for leisure purposes or regularly commuting between one's home and workplace. Relatively recently, the rise of videotelephony have cause a reduction of business travel.
GBTA BTI™ is an exhaustive forecast of business travel preferences, behaviors, spending, and growth covering 72 countries and 44 industries. It includes survey data and analysis from 4,100 business travelers across five global regions.
American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) is a leading software and services company for travel, expense, and meetings & events. We have built the most valuable marketplace in travel with the most comprehensive and competitive content.
In 2003, Amex GBT acquired Rosenbluth International from Hal Rosenbluth in a "mega deal" that combined two of the top global travel agencies at the time. [3] In 2014 American Express divested their Global Business Travel division for an investment of $900 million to an investor group creating American Express Global Business Travel.
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Business Travel American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) is the world’s leading business-to-business (B2B) travel platform, providing software and services to manage travel, expenses, and meetings and events for companies of all sizes. With travel professionals in more than 140 countries, our clients and travelers enjoy the powerful ...
GBTA’s members manage more than $345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA delivers world-class education, events, research, advocacy, and media to a growing global network of more than 28,000 travel professionals and 125,000 active contacts.