Tag: business travel

Travel is Getting Easier – Here’s What You Should Know

While the Omicron variant continues to impact travel in parts of the world, many are seeing countries, states, and cities begin to lift their COVID-19 restrictions. Officials are now defining their response by the various circumstances in their specific regions, and many nations have even cancelled rules put in place for the pandemic altogether.  Business…
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COVID-19 Global Travel Updates – May 15, 2020

On March 11, the World Health Organization officially classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, indicating that every location is likely to be affected, though the exact timing and impact cannot be predicted. Non-essential international and domestic travel should be deferred due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global logistical environment, healthcare…
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Why the Gant Gateway is the Ultimate Mission Control for Post COVID-19 Travel

While most organizations have put their travel programs on hold, we’re all confident that travel will resume soon. Like everyone, we’re busy preparing for what the new business-travel landscape will look like once the bans and restrictions have been lifted. And, we’re making sure we have the right tools in place to support our clients…
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COVID-19 Global Travel Updates – April 28, 2020

On March 11, the World Health Organization officially classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, indicating that every location is likely to be affected, though the exact timing and impact cannot be predicted. Non-essential international and domestic travel should be deferred due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global logistical environment, healthcare…
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Build the Travel Program You Wish You’d Had on March 1st

It’s been about a month since the COVID-19 pandemic took the western world by storm, impacting travel in ways the modern travel industry had never seen. Companies have, for the most part, halted their business travel program and a majority of the country is under some version of a safer-at-home order. People are settling into a new work-life rhythm as they…
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Gant Debuts Revolutionary New Meeting Planning Tool

All things, good and bad, must come to an end. That includes the current restrictions and travel bans due to the global COVID-19 outbreak. Someday soon, “safer at home” orders will become a thing of the past and we’ll all be able to start freely seeing friends, family, and customers face-to-face instead of through our computer…
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COVID-19 Global Travel Updates – April 6, 2020

On March 11, the World Health Organization officially classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, indicating that every location is likely to be affected, though the exact timing and impact cannot be predicted. Non-essential international and domestic travel should be deferred due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the global logistical environment, healthcare…
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A Letter to Our Clients: Gant Is Launching Updates to Aid Your COVID-19 Travel Impact

With global travel bans and restrictions in place, the number of canceled reservations and issued airline waivers are at unprecedented highs. To say the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted business travel would be an incredible understatement. We wanted to make sure you remembered that we do not charge a fee just to cancel a reservation with an agent.…
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Enterprise To Waive Some Fees For College Students

Enterprise Rent-A-Car is waiving all One Way fees, waiving Mileage Restrictions, waiving its Young Renter Fee and its minimum age to rent a vehicle to 18 years old. The change is effective now through the end of May in the United States. With colleges and universities all over the United States announcing campus closures in…
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COVID-19 Global Travel Updates – March 19, 2020

WHO CLASSIFIES COVID-1 9 AS PANDEMIC On March 11, the World Health Organization officially classified the COVID-19 outbreak as a pandemic, indicating that every location is likely to be affected, though the exact timing and impact cannot be predicted. A growing number of countries have imposed public health measures to reduce the spread of the…
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