Fourth LACTTE: Leading Latin American Business Travel Conference
Added Education Track Offers Strategic Meetings Management Insight
SAO PAULO, Brazil, February 5, 2009 - The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) and official NBTA global affiliate the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV) this week welcomed more than 760 attendees from Brazil, the United States and throughout Latin America to the 4th Annual Latin American Corporate Travel & Technology Exchange (LACTTE) in S~ao Paulo, Brazil.
Delegates participated in 19 education sessions within five tracks, including the new Strategic Meetings Management track added this year, which offered insights and lessons learned when developing and enhancing meetings strategies.
NBTA President & CEO, Kevin Maguire, CCTE, GLP, said, "In today's challenging global economy, corporate travel professionals around the world are facing new and greater managed travel challenges, and the Latin American region is no exception. To greater serve the business travel community in this vital region, NBTA and ABGEV once again joined to offer even more resources and networking opportunities than before to help address those challenges and offer solutions."
In addition to meetings management strategies, discussions at LACTTE were focused on other important travel management issues such as service level agreements, self-booking tools, and data overflow. Corporate travel buyers attended a special buyer-only session on the value of travel management. Attendees also interacted with 14 companies exhibiting in the Trade & Technology Exchange Showcase.
ABGEV President, Vivi^anne Martins, said, "Once again this event has proven to be the largest and most beneficial corporate travel conference in Latin America. Business travel professionals from across the region who came to learn from industry thought leaders and network with colleagues left with new ideas and innovations for managing travel within their companies."
The National Business Travel Association (NBTA) is the world's premier business travel and corporate meetings organization. NBTA and its regional affiliates - NBTA Asia Pacific, the Brazilian Business Travel Association (ABGEV), NBTA Canada, NBTA Mexico and NBTA USA - serve a network of more than 15,000 business travel professionals around the globe with industry-leading events, networking, education & professional development, research, news & information, and advocacy. NBTA members, numbering more than 4,000 in 30 nations, are corporate and government travel and meetings managers, as well as travel service providers. They collectively manage and direct more than US$200 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually on behalf of more than 10 million business travelers within their organizations. For more information, visit www.nbta.org.
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