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Business travellers are coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic with a “more environmentally conscious mindset”, which could impact the return of trips to pre-Covid levels. A panel of industry figures told delegates at the Business Travel Show Europe in London on Wednesday (29 June) that employees now had greater interest in travelling more sustainably.

By Business Travel News Europe / 19 April 2021 Photo Credit: Etienne Girardet/Unsplash Many countries and companies have set a target of making zero carbon emissions. Some are already there while others expect to get there at some point between now and 2050. Some have done so by investing in carbon offsetting schemes while others have made concrete efforts to rethink their operations to remove carbon dioxide from the process. For the companies that have com...

By Business Travel News Europe / 7 April 2021 Share In the UK, more than 30 million people have been vaccinated; in Norway, the number is just 800,000. Yet there are two ends to any business trip so even if everyone in the UK is vaccinated it does not mean that other countries will be ready to welcome them. Governmental approaches to business travel also vary. In some, business travel is considered an exemption to restrictions on travel; in ...

By Business Travel News Europe / 8 January 2021 Photo Credit: Chris Montgomery/Unsplash Happy new year! Or is it? The word happy seems a bit hollow in a world where a new wave of Covid is killing thousands every day across the world, countries have been slapped into lockdown and the ability to leave our homes, let alone our countries, has been restricted. And that’s without mentioning what certain politicians and protestors have been up to this week. Yet ...

By Business Travel News Europe / 19 December 2020 Share This week, quarantine for arriving travellers in the UK has been cut from from 14 to 10 days. The government’s test to release scheme – which allows people arriving in England to cut their quarantine in half if, after five days, they get a negative Covid test – was launched, although it was quickly overwhelmed and attracted criticism.  In Europe, the Netherlands and Germany annou...