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BCD Travel announces ‘Centricity powered by BCD’ – offering life sciences companies stronger patient-centric solutions

BCD’s Life Sciences Center of Excellence today announced the launch of Centricity powered by BCD, a specialized offering that provides concierge patient travel, logistics, payment, special-needs facilitation and engagement strategies to life sciences companies. 

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BCD Travel invests in French market to support significant growth post-pandemic

BCD Travel France is pleased to announce the addition of corporate travel industry veteran Jean-Christian Fuentes to the global travel management company.

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Leading travel management company BCD Travel and Spain’s top-ranked travel group Ávoris reinforce partnership agreement

Spain's leading travel group Ávoris and BCD Travel have strengthened their partnership agreement. As the exclusive official representative of BCD in Spain and a member of BCD’s Global Network, Ávoris manages and provides travel services for global and local BCD clients in Spain. Part of the prestigious Barceló Group, Ávoris achieved Spain’s no. 1 travel and tourism ranking after merging with Globalia's outbound travel and tourism division this year.

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Wes Bergstrom joins BCD Travel as SVP, Supplier Relations, Americas and Global Hotel

Leading travel management company BCD Travel announced the appointment of Wes Bergstrom to the role of Senior Vice President, Supplier Relations, Americas and Global Hotel, effective October 1.

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BCD Travel transforms travel & expense spend management with BCD Pay™

As part of its ongoing commitment to the transformation of travel and expense (T&E) spend management, BCD Travel today announced BCD Pay™, a suite of solutions that use artificial intelligence, machine learning and open APIs to simplify, digitize and automate corporate travel payment, reconciliation and invoice management for clients. The result is a frictionless, digital payment experience from trip booking and payment through reconciliation.

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BCD Travel survey: Business travelers pinpoint shortcomings of virtual meetings and want decision-making power

BCD Travel survey: Business travelers pinpoint shortcomings of virtual meetings and want decision-making power UTRECHT, The Netherlands, August 19, 2021 – Business travelers are raising concerns about the reliance on screen-based interaction as their primary meeting method. Now more than ever, they are also looking for control, ease and simplicity, according to a recent survey of 738 business travelers worldwide. Leading travel management company BCD Travel conducted the survey from July 6-20. While virtual meetings and remote work are here to stay, business travel and face-to-face meetings remain extremely important. Seventy-six percent of survey respondents said business travel helps them

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BCD Travel once again achieves top sustainability rating

BCD Travel once again achieves top sustainability rating UTRECHT, The Netherlands, July 21, 2021 – For the second year, BCD Travel has earned the special Platinum distinction from EcoVadis, for the highest-performing companies in an independent sustainability assessment. EcoVadis is the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. With this Platinum rating, BCD maintains its position in the top 1% of the currently 75,000 companies assessed by EcoVadis. “Our second Platinum rating is a distinction that not only confirms the importance we place on sustainability within our own operations, but ensures we are the supplier of choice

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Delta and BCD sign first global travel management sustainable fuel agreement

Delta Air Lines and BCD Travel USA LLC have signed the first-ever sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) agreement for a travel management company. The premier agreement helps address emissions from BCD employee travel and, as one of the largest travel management agencies in the world, bolsters the future of sustainability in the travel industry.

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BCD Travel becomes first global travel management company to join Science Based Targets Initiative

As part of a long-standing commitment to sustainability, BCD Travel signed on to the Science Based Targets Initiative (SBTi), a U.N. initiative to increase corporate participation on climate action in line with the Paris Agreement. As the first global travel management company to have joined the SBTi, BCD supports science-based targets aimed at reducing greenhouse gases. An emissions-reduction target is 'science based' if it’s designed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (35.6° F) from pre-industrial levels.

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BCD Travel Life Sciences Center of Excellence reimagines clinical trial patient travel and logistics

BCD Travel’s Life Sciences Center of Excellence today announced an enhanced approach to clinical trial patient travel aimed at shifting the paradigm from traditional service delivery...

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