Price volatility is finally moderating, making planning easier for businesses, even as prices rise. Still, on the back of the biggest election year in history (2024), macroeconomic and travel industry supply-demand dynamics will vary dramatically from country to country in 2025.

From North America’s steady demand coupled with Trump-administration uncertainty, inflation-driven cost spikes in some Latin American countries, and the Asia-Pacific region’s uneven recovery, CWT Solutions Group Vice President Richard Johnson and New York Times bestselling author, economist and futurist Dr. Shawn DuBravac join forces to deliver essential guidance around local and regional pricing outlooks for 2025.

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• Why business travel is reclaiming its dominance over leisure at key destinations.
• How changes in government leadership, sustainable practices and geopolitical tensions could drive pricing adjustments and alter travel patterns.
• Actionable tips to optimize your travel policy, including flexible pricing models and localized negotiation strategies.

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Generative AI, Blockchain and Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) are transforming traveler experience and service delivery. How should travel managers prepare their programs to take full advantage and avoid big risks? What's the current state of play and future prospects over the next year and beyond?

To launch CWT and BTN Group's industry white paper 'Emerging Technologies in Corporate Travel' Cobb & Hutch Consulting's Karen Hutchings, Microsoft's Steve Clagg, and Travlr ID's Gee Mann and Ian Spearing dissect how these advanced technologies intersect with business travel management. Discover how these innovations are transforming travel management, enhancing traveler experiences, and driving cost savings and efficiencies.

Find out:

• How to apply GenAI, Blockchain and SSI to managed travel
• What is the reality and promise of each application
• How to prepare your program to capitalize on new tech

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The production and adoption of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is gaining critical momentum. As demand for air travel increases worldwide, corporate travel customers must play a leading role in the race to decarbonize aviation. But, it's no mean feat for travel managers looking to balance cost and sustainability, while staying clued-in to developments,

CWT's Global Head of ESG Richard Thompson talks to Dan Kreibich, Founder and Chief Product Officer of climate tech company Squake and Susanne Bouma, Head of Partnerships & Programs (aviation) at SAF-producer Neste, responsible for accelerating emission reductions through partnerships to increase SAF uptake. Together they unpack the mandates, cost, challenges, opportunities and future of SAF and other carbon removal offerings, for corporate travel customers.

Find out:

• How the 'book-and-claim' method works and why there's scepticism about the effectiveness of carbon offsetting.
• What risks and opportunities do global SAF mandates present?
• The premiums corporates can expect to pay for SAF, and the value it brings.
• The perils of 'double-claiming'
• How to incorporate SAF and other solutions to your sustainable travel strategy.

Learn how CWT and Squake's partnership helps corporate travel programs access sustainable aviation fuel at scale here.

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