Episode 6: BTN Editors' Roundtable

Are you ready to nerd out? In this extended episode, BTN editors gathered together to interrogate one another's 2024 What to Watch opinion pieces. Executive editor Michael B. Baker hosts senior transportation editor Donna Airolda, contributing editor Amon Cohen, managing editor Chris Davis, BTN Europe chief editor Andy Hoskins and BTN Group editorial director Elizabeth West. Air Date: March 21. 

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Episode 5: Distribution Revolution Is Not Just for Airlines

BTN dives into distribution trends again, but wait... not air content distribution? No. HRS managing director of the Americas Will Pinnell says attribute based selling will hit its stride in 2024 for hotels. How will that impact corporate travel programs? Well... BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker digs into the problems and possibilities. Air Date: March 13. 

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Episode 4: A Different NDC - Nourish, Delight & Choice

Fox World Travel VP of business travel George Kalka has a different view of what NDC should mean in 2024. Podcast host and BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker explores why traveler well-being and "policy elasticity" is the actual "next-gen" focus for effective travel programs. Do you agree? Air Date: March 6.

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Episode 3: Think Beyond Carbon to Biodiversity

Reduced carbon emissions aren't the end goal... did you know that? In What to Watch Episode 3, BCD Travel's sustainability VP Olivia Ruggles-Brise reality checks the industry's sustainability focus. So what's the next step? Air Date: February 28. 

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Episode 2: 'Social Capital' Key to Business Travel's Value

Is social capital—or, as Festive Road managing partner Paul Tilstone describes it, "stuff that impacts your brain and your heart"—the key value of business travel? Whether it's building a relationship that results in future sales or driving internal collaboration that improves results, how can you ensure its value is considered when travel budgets are under discussion? Air Date: February 21. 

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Episode 1: Do We Still Know What Corporate Travel Is?

Opinion contributor and Flight Centre chief experience officer John Morhous kicks off our What to Watch series with and existential crisis. Do we still know what corporate travel is? What about compliance or policy or lowest logical fare? Podcast host and BTN executive editor Michael B. Baker jumps into the abyss with Morhous for 27 minutes. Air Date: February 15.

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