How Motels, Zepplins and Sky Girls Impacted Business Travel Over the Last 100 Years


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This American Express GBT microsite makes you wonder how we'll be traveling for work in 2115.

For female flight attendants over 40 years old who cringe at the thought of being called a stewardess, they may or may not take comfort in the fact that it could be worse. Last month, American Express Global Business Travel launched a microsite showcasing pivotal moments in the history of travel technology and tourism that shaped the first two decades of the last 100 years of business travel via land, sea and air. The portal initially profiled 15 innovations in global transport beginning in 1915 with the opening of the Panama Canal, through to 1929 when Willi