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The Fundamentals of Business Travel Management™ | London, UK

New to business travel management? The Fundamentals of Business Travel Management™ is returning to London this September! Take an in-depth look at the foundational principles of business travel management with this popular GBTA workshop. Topics to be covered range from buyer/supplier relationships to travel technology basics. This is the perfect course for travel professionals in need of a foundation for success in corporate travel management. This course was created for travel professionals new to travel management and for experienced individuals seeking the latest best practices for their company or organisation. Details Dates: 11-12 September, 2019 Venue: Melia Whitehouse, Albany St, London NW1 3UP Prices: Members: €450+ VAT; Non-Members: €600+ VAT Learn More

Upcoming Professional Development in Europe Hotels around the globe that attract royalty Tivoli Palacio de Seteais (Tivoli Palacio de Seteais/Facebook) Royalty around the world already live first-class lives, so you can bet their travel choices are the epitome of luxury. For example, the 18th-century Tivoli Palacio de Seteais in Portugal used to be the Portuguese royal family's summer home and is now a 30-room boutique hotel, while Kampala Serena Hotel in Uganda has hosted Japanese, English and Swazi royalty amid its 17 acres of exquisitely tended water gardens. CNN (7/19)  9 of Venice's top boutique lodgings The City of Bridges offers a selection of boutique hotels for all tastes, and Anne Hanley details nine of them. The Venetian-style Ca Maria Adele features 12 rooms and two suites as well as its own water entrance, and the far-flung Hotel Palazzo Abadessa in the quieter Cannaregio district is an elegant, 13-room palace with a ultra-friendly, house-party vibe. The Telegraph (London) (tiered subscription model) (7/22) Keeping the summer heat on: Hotels stretch prime period US hoteliers are employing a range of strategies to add days and weeks to the summer busy season, including special rates and packages, partnerships with local tourism promoters and cultivation of repeat customers. Regular postings on social media are keys as well. Hotel News Now (7/19)  China offers to jointly explore Moon with India, hails successful Chandrayaan-2 mission launch Just a day after India successfully launched its Chandrayaan-2 Moon mission, Beijing says it is ready to team up with New Delhi to explore Earth’s natural satellite, possibly offering a way to mend ties with its rival neighbor. China welcomes the start of India’s flagship Chandrayaan-2 mission, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Hua Chungying told a press briefing in Beijing. “We are ready to join forces with India and other countries to carry out lunar explorations,” Chungying said, adding that it is “a shared mission of humankind” to find out more about the Moon and beyond. That aside, there were other indications that the Indian launch was met with praise in China. Wu Weiren, chief of China’s lunar exploration program, wished India’s Moon landing success “despite previous delays,” according to the  Global Times.