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American Express Global Business Travel has appointed Nora Lovell Marchant to the role of vice president of global sustainability.
The role was created to drive and coordinate enterprise-wide green initiatives and enable the company to achieve targets set out in its sustainability strategy.
These include establishing American Express Global Business Travel as the leading marketplace for green business travel, attaining carbon neutrality by 2025 and working with clients and partners to drive aviation towards net zero carbon by 2050.
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Si-Yeon Kim, American Express Global Business Travel chief risk and compliance officer, said: “Nora has been central to embedding the foundation of sustainability at American Express Global Business Travel and helping drive the wider environmental, social and governance agenda across the organisation.
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American Express Global Business Travel (GBT) has named Nora Lovell Marchant its vice president of global sustainability, a new role at the travel management company.
Lovell Marchant was previously GBT s director of global regulatory compliance.
In her new role, she will work to drive green initiatives at GBT, No. 3 on Travel Weekly s 2020 Power List, and help it achieve targets in its sustainability strategy. That includes attaining carbon neutrality by 2025 and working tto drive aviation toward net zero carbon by 2050, according to GBT.
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The prospect of a UK-U.S. travel corridor opening this summer just in time for the peak travel season has fueled even more optimism from travel leaders eager to avoid a second lost summer.
No firm plans have been revealed for a restriction-free travel corridor between the two countries, but U.S. airline executives say talks with the UK government have been productive. A corridor could open as early as June or July.
When that happens, United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby said “I think you’re going to have a hard time finding a hotel room in the UK, because there’s going to be so many people wanting to go.”
Corporate Travel Leader Deem Hires Travel Industry Veteran Shannon Garcia
04/20/2021 | 09:00am EDT
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Oakland, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Deem, a leading mobile and cloud technology provider for the corporate travel industry, today announced that travel industry veteran Shannon Garcia has been hired as its new VP of Strategic Sales. In her new role, Garcia will help solve travel challenges enterprise-level companies experience.
“As business travelers and companies prepare to resume travel, they’ll have a new set of challenges to confront” said Christina Woronchak, chief revenue officer, Deem. “We’re confident Shannon’s deep expertise and dedication to the business travel industry will become invaluable for enterprises as they look to us to provide the most effective and efficient solutions to today’s concerns.”
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American Express Global Business Travel is calling for world
leaders gathering at June’s G7 summit to support the swift return of
international travel, and for the UK and US to establish a “safe and seamless”
travel corridor between the two nations at the earliest possibility.
Discussing the global travel taskforce’s recent proposals for the return of international travel to and from the UK, the
TMC’s chief commercial officer, Drew Crawley, told
BTN Europe: “We have
been talking in detail with the cabinet office around the G7 meeting so that
they are properly informed [about the significance of business travel] and put