Beyond Green, a global sustainable travel brand, held an event in Beijing showcasing six member hotels and announced its launch on Xiaohongshu. Marking its fifth anniversary, the brand has expanded to 70 hotels in 22 countries and partnered with sustainable organizations. Its annual summit will be held at Three Camel Lodge in Mongolia.
UK high-speed rail operator Avanti West Coast offers private carriage hire for meetings, team-building, and events, with bespoke packages for larger gatherings. Rail travel offers a sustainable alternative, and group bookings can be made up to a year in advance.
Byway has partnered with TUI to bring flight-free travel to the UK mainstream, placing its products in 329 TUI retail stores nationwide. This enables agents to sell overland options alongside traditional package holidays, giving Byway access to a large offline distribution channel. Bookings are up 1.8 times year over year as travelers seek alternatives to air travel. Through the integration, TUI agents can build and book multi-stop rail- and ferry-based itineraries using Byway's platform. Rail travel produces roughly 14 grams of CO2 per passenger mile compared with 285 grams for air, according to Byway.
SAP Concur's Global Business Travel Survey, commissioned through Wakefield Research and now in its sixth year, focused specifically on higher education for the first time. The global survey covered 3,750 business travelers in 24 markets. Among higher education respondents, 67% of U.S. business travelers consider business travel essential for career growth; 94% experienced cutbacks in travel flexibility over the past year, with 34% reporting cuts to authorizing remote work during personal travel and 21% noting restrictions on adding personal travel to business trips; 85% were forced to take unanticipated actions due to unexpected circumstances in the past 12 months, including canceling or re…
SAP Concur hosted a sustainable corporate travel roundtable with representatives from BNP Paribas, Facebook, Lufthansa, and EY. A survey of 2,450 travel decision-makers and 2,000 business travelers found 85% felt they had control over arrangements, but 46% lacked information to assess sustainability. 39% said sustainability of their corporate travel had never occurred to them.