NBTA, The Wall Street Journal to Honor Business Traveler Innovations
Public Will Vote for Their Favorite Business Traveler Product, Service or Idea
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) and The Wall Street Journal have launched the 2010 Business Traveler Innovation Awards aimed at honoring innovative ideas, products or services that make life on the road easier for business travelers. Following a public nomination and voting period, the awards will be presented at the 2010 NBTA International Convention and Exposition in Houston, TX, August 8-11.
Craig Banikowski, CCTE, C.P.M, CMM, NBTA President & CEO, said, “We all know that business travel is necessary to conduct effective business, but life on the road can be stressful and tiresome. Those of us who travel frequently have long discovered the technologies and services that make our trips more practical and productive, and I continue to be amazed at the innovations that help me to save time and money or provide peace of mind. I’m looking forward to see which of my favorites make the list.”
Business travelers can log on to www.nbta.org/innovation to submit innovations that have made business trips easier. Following the submission deadline of May 14, The Wall Street Journal will run four half-page advertisements to direct readers to the NBTA website where submissions will be displayed and the public will be invited to vote for their favorites. The top submissions will be featured at the NBTA Convention in the Business Traveler Innovations Pavilion where celebrity judges will determine the winner.
Banikowski added, “NBTA is pleased to be working with The Wall Street Journal on this inaugural award, and I know the innovations revealed throughout the competition will be of interest to the millions of business travelers who read the paper. It’s the way of the corporate travel industry – to share new ideas and products that make our travel easier, lighter and more efficient.”
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world’s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates – NBTA Australia/New Zealand, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Europe, NBTA Mexico, and NBTA USA – serve a network of more than 17,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 5,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 13 million business travelers within their organizations.
