3 Questions That Need Answering at This Year’s Global Business Travel Association Convention

This is the main event. Of course the Global Business Travel Association has held previous conferences in San Diego before at the city's waterfront convention center — but never after such a drawn-out downturn. The association did manage to squeeze its annual convention in last year, in Chicago, but mostly minus the European contingent who were barred from traveling to the U.S. So it’s back at full pace, with an expected 4,500 delegates here over Aug. 14-17 (down on the usual pre-pandemic 7,000, but this year organizers claim 1,000 buyers.) The mood is mostly optimistic, with delegates surprised at just how little airline and airport disruption