Gurgaon, India – January 30, 2020: American Express Global Business Travel (GBT), the world’s leading business partner for managed travel, today launched GBT Ready, a streamlined travel management solution for companies in India.
Ashish Kishore, GBT’s Managing Director for India, said: “GBT Ready provides everything a business needs to derive maximum value from a travel budget while helping to keep travelling employees happy and productive.”
At the core of GBT Ready is Neo, GBT’s proprietary travel booking engine that uses artificial intelligence to make personalised recommendations using GBT’s negotiated air fares and hotel rates. This simple and efficient process helps travel managers increase employee adoption of the travel policy, which drives savings and helps companies meet their duty of care obligations.
Kishore added: “To be truly effective, technology must deliver practical efficiencies particularly for businesses whose employees thrive on being agile in their everyday work. With GBT Ready, travellers take charge of their journeys in real-time to quickly book or rebook flights, cars and hotels via the GBT Mobile app, phone, chat or email.”
GBT Ready includes:
- A package of GBT products and technology, including live chat via the Amex GBT Mobile app, to simplify managed travel
- A tailored travel program incorporating negotiated rates
- Exclusive air and hotel discounts
- Reporting dashboards and actionable insights
- Quick and easy onboarding with support for travel managers
- Industry-leading data protection for travellers and businesses
GBT is also expanding its Meeting and Events (M&E) capabilities in India. This includes broadening the current talent pool by increasing the number of M&E employees and operating within a more integrated business model in 2020.
Kishore said: “There is a growing appetite to host meetings and events across the APAC Region1 as meeting planners are under pressure to deliver unique experiences while maximizing every dollar spent. It is the right time to expand our expertise within our M&E team as clients are asking us for more support.”
“We want to bolster the team’s depth of knowledge with new, experienced M&E professionals. This, of course, will continue to be backed by the already strong relationships we have with GBT’s global network of airline, venue and destination management company (DMC) partners,” he added.
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American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) is the world’s leading business partner for managed travel. We help companies and employees prosper by making sure travelers are present where and when it matters. We keep global business moving with the powerful backing of 18,000 travel professionals in more than 140 countries. Companies of all sizes, and in all places, rely on GBT to provide travel management services, organize meetings and events, and deliver business travel consulting.
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About American Express Meetings & Events
American Express Meetings & Events, a division of American Express Global Business Travel, offers longstanding experience, expertise and leading capabilities spanning program implementation to budget optimization in order to deliver powerful meetings and events experiences for clients. The global team is focused on meetings and events sourcing, planning, contract negotiations, budgeting, expense management, reporting, and benchmarking, combined with strategic counsel and integration of leading technology. This end-to-end approach focuses on creating visibility, driving savings, and enabling effective meeting experiences.
With more than 50 years in the industry and presence in more than 100 countries, American Express Meetings & Events is uniquely positioned to manage meetings and events locally, regionally, internationally, and across the globe. The company’s broad capabilities meet the full spectrum of clients’ meetings and events’ needs. In 2017, GBT acquired events management agency, Banks Sadler. In 2018 GBT acquired travel management company, HRG, including its meetings and events division.
American Express Meetings & Events has been named for nine years consequently to Meetings Net’s “CMI 25” list,[2] an annual directory of the largest and most influential full-service meeting and incentive travel management companies focused on the US corporate meetings and incentives industry. To learn more about the services offered by American Express Meetings & Events, visit: https://www.amexglobalbusinesstravel.com/meetings-and-events/.
[2] MeetingsNet’s Annual CMI 25 List, https://www.meetingsnet.com/cmi-25