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LEARNING CURVE BBT Roundtable tackles business travel’s low profile in colleges and universities
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eople tend to fall into business travel, said an attendee at our first BBT Roundtable (p80-84), where we explored perceptions of our sector in academia. At college and university levels, career pathways veer to the leisure side of travel, tourism and hospitality. Cabin crew, repping and hotel jobs take the lion’s share of work placements. Yet once people “fall” into business travel, they stick around. And, as this is a people business, moving between sectors, as well as between buyer, supplier and agency roles, is fluid to say the least. Everyone in our industry invests in conferences and events; perhaps it’s time we channelled some of this energy into visiting colleges and universities to recruit students into business travel.
MONEY TALKS Another exciting avenue for graduates is the payments sector, touched upon at the roundtable. Check out this issue’s Corporate Cards and Payments 2019 supplement, produced in association with Visa, for a round-up of the latest trends and emerging technologies. There are some major changes on the way.
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CONTRIBUTORS
MARK CHILLINGWORTH Mark has been observing, speaking and writing about CIO/CTO community events and creating podcasts for over a decade. He is also an advisor at the University of Sussex, driving a transformation in the use of technology in higher education.
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BEN WALSH Ben has been covering travel, film and music for two decades, and writing for the Independent, the Evening Standard and the i newspaper, among other titles, on everything from Kalimpong in India, Asheville in North Carolina to Jackson Browne and Carly Simon.
MEGAN TATUM Megan is a business journalist specialising in sustainability, ethics and diversity. She oversees features for The Grocer magazine, covering subjects from health to policy to marketing. She also manages the highly successful Waste Not Want Not campaign.
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