This issue marks the 25th anniversary of
Business Travel News' first edition, and we've published several features to mark the occasion.
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Please click here to download a PDF of a timeline of the most notable events in the business travel industry in the past 25 years.
Top of the Top 25sBusiness Travel News has rung in each of the past 25 years by recognizing the 25 business and government executives whose decisions held the greatest sway over the business travel industry in the previous year. A total of 385 people have been so honored in the past quarter-century, many more than once, 29 of them at least four times. Detailing the influence of those 29 executives paints a picture of an industry that has changed in countless measures since 1984, from globalization to automation to consolidation. These are the executives who propelled that change.
Please click here to download a PDF of this feature, or click here to read it online.Travel Managers of the Year, 1984-2009Every year,
Business Travel News names the corporate travel buyer who in the previous year did the most to elevate the profession, either by raising the bar in at least one industry practice or exerting influence throughout the industry.
Please click here to download a PDF of this feature, or click here to read it online.Buyers Eye 25 Years Of Business Travel And BeyondTo help reflect on the lessons of the past, the challenges of the present and the possibilities for the future of business travel management, in this milestone moment during which we commemorate 25 years of
Business Travel News, we gathered three former
BTN Travel Managers of the Year-Colleen Guhin, Dominion's Donna Kelliher and Partnership Travel Consulting's Andrew Menkes-and BDO Seidman's Cynthia Gillen, the current president of the Chicago Business Travel Association.
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