GBTA Foundation Rolls Out Revamped Hotel RFP
New RFP is Global, Cost Effective, and Has Enhanced Automated Data Transfer Functionality
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The GBTA Foundation, the research and education arm of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), today unveiled the new GBTA Hotel Request For Proposal (RFP). The new Hotel RFP is global, more efficient and easier to use, quantifies vendor sustainability practices and incorporates web service functionality for automation of data transfer. The process to examine and update the Hotel RFP was done with support from sponsor Hilton Worldwide.
GBTA Foundation, along with members of the GBTA Hotel Committee, the GBTA Foundation's International Taskforce and Technology Taskforce, and over 50 volunteers from around the world conducted an extensive review of the previous RFP. The groups created the new Hotel RFP to provide members and their respective companies with an invaluable resource for the 2013 hotel negotiating season.
GBTA Foundation's Executive Director Daphne Bryant said, "We are thrilled to launch this new Hotel RFP – it achieves everything we were striving for when we set out on this mission: it is a global RFP that is easier to use, it's cost effective and brings in the advances of technology in data transfer. After an extensive process and culmination of a lot of hard work with stakeholders in every sector of business travel, we've created this truly impressive resource that is unsurpassed."
The revamped GBTA Hotel RFP will be available free to members worldwide in October in the GBTA Resource Library, http://www.gbta.org/resourcelibrary/Pages/Default.aspx. The GBTA Hotel RFP was announced at GBTA Europe Annual Conference in Amsterdam.
About the GBTA Foundation
The GBTA Foundation is the education and research foundation of the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. Collectively, GBTA's 5,000-plus members manage over $340 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA provides its network of 17,000 business and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers, with networking events, news, education & professional development, research, and advocacy. The foundation was established in 1997 to support GBTA's members and the industry as a whole. As the leading education and research foundation in the business travel industry, the GBTA Foundation seeks to fund initiatives to advance the business travel profession. The GBTA Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For more information, see gbta.org and www.gbtafoundation.org
About the Global Business Travel Association
The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) is the world's premier business travel and meetings trade organization headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area with operations on six continents. GBTA's members manage more than $345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually. GBTA delivers world-class education, events, research, advocacy, and media to a growing global network of more than 28,000 travel professionals and 125,000 active contacts.
About the GBTA Foundation
The mission of the GBTA Foundation, the US 501c3 charitable arm of GBTA, is to help the global business travel industry create a positive impact and a better future for people and the planet. The GBTA Foundation focuses on the strategy and execution of GBTA's global sustainability programs, supporting initiatives related to climate action; diversity, equity and inclusion; and other talent-related topics via education, research and advocacy.
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