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The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has announced new initiatives in the Australia and New Zealand region, Australia/New Zealand Advocacy Group.
In addition to kick-starting initiatives which have proved successful in Europe, such as the Australia/New Zealand Advocacy Group and a regional Strategic Benchmark Group for large corporates, GBTA Chief Global Development Officer Paul Tilstone’s visit to Sydney on 22 February will also see the beginning of an interview process for candidates for a new GMrole for the region.
The developments have been planned since GBTA Australia/New Zealand began operating over a year ago and represents a focus by GBTA to see a significant increase in activity for the region in 2012 and beyond to represent the interests of the buyer community.
Tilstone said he saw lots of opportunity in the region for engagement with the government and key suppliers. These included large corporates sharing best practices and benchmarking their strategies. In addition, Tilstone has plans for an event dedicated to companies in the exploration and mining sector on the back of the success of a European Oil, Gas and Marine Travel Forum introduced in Europe in 2011.
He said, “Buyers in the region need to be heard more and GBTA can help them do that. Those in the exploration and mining community have a unique set of issues they need solutions for and the creation of sector specific networks is a particular focus of ours moving forward. We will announce more details about all of these initiatives, especially the regional Exploration and Mining Travel Symposium, in due course.”