NBTA Canada Hosts Largest-Ever Calgary Education Day

     CONTACT:        Caleb Tiller, +1 703-236-1138 
                                Tanya Racz, +1 403-503-0431

Calgary, Alberta (September 9, 2008) -- NBTA Canada – the Canadian arm of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA) and the leading provider of education and professional resources for corporate travel professionals in Canada – this week continued its pattern of growth when it held the largest one-day educational program in Calgary in the organization’s history. More than 45 corporate travel professionals attended the NBTA Corporate Travel Management Education Day held yesterday at the Calgary Fairmont Palliser to learn the latest on Supplier Management Strategies, Effective Negotiations, and Corporate Online Booking Tools. Travel manager/buyer attendees also had an opportunity to talk with each other in a roundtable format for buyers only.

Speakers and facilitators of the day’s sessions included:    

  • Jeffrey Hansler, CSP, President, Oxford Company
  • Kevin Maguire, CCTE, GLP - President & CEO, NBTA
  • Andy Menkes, President & CEO, Partnership Travel Consulting
  • Tanya Racz, CTE, CCTE – President, NBTA Canada
  • James M. Sisco, Aviation Committee Member & Director Global Travel, Reed Elsevier

Panelists for the session on online booking tools included representatives from:

  •  Air Canada
  • Carlson Wagonlit Travel
  • Concur
  • TRX

The program was made possible by support from Education Day Sponsor Fairmont Palliser Hotel and the following National Sponsors: Scotiabank, Vision 2000 Travel Group, SkyTeam, Global Alliance, Air Canada, BMO, NEXUS and Medisys.

The next Corporate Travel Management Education Day will be held in Toronto on September 22. Registration is already at a record-high. For details or to sign up for the event, visit www.nbtacanada.org.

NBTA Canada, the leading organization for corporate travel professionals in Canada, is part of the National Business Travel Association (NBTA), the world’s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates – NBTA Asia Pacific, NBTA Canada, NBTA Mexico and NBTA USA – serve a network of more than 15,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 4,000 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$200 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 10 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.

NBTA Canada, chef de file de l’organisation des voyages d’affaires pour les professionnels au Canada, est une filiale régionale de la National Business Travel Association (NBTA), l’organisme de voyages d’affaires par excellence à l’échelle globale. La NBTA et ses filiales régionales – NBTA Asie Pacifique, NBTA Canada, NBTA Mexique et NBTA États-Unis – offrent des services à plus de 15 000 professionnels à travers le monde par le truchement d’événements à la fine pointe, d’occasion de réseautage, de formation et de perfectionnement ainsi que de services de recherche, de nouvelles, d’information et de plaidoirie. La NBTA compte plus de 4 000 membres dans 30 pays, lesquels sont des gestionnaires de voyages et de réunions d’affaires provenant des milieux public et privé, et qui, ensemble, gèrent un portefeuille de plus de 200 milliards $US en dépenses liées aux voyages annuellement pour plus de 10 millions de voyageurs d’affaires. Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez vous rendre à www.nbta.org.

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