About GBTA Europe

GBTA in Europe is founded on its partnerships with the region’s leading business travel associations and the GBTA France chapter.
The network provides business travel and meeting professionals with a European remit with access to the best education and training, research, benchmarking tools and events. For advocacy, it means that GBTA is the voice of business travel in Europe.

 


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Why GBTA Europe?

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Committees

GBTA’s 13 committees set the direction of the business travel industry across major categories of interest. 

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Valuable Connections

Join 9,000 + global members and connect via GBTA’s member-only networking and collaboration tool, GBTA Hub.

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Stay Current

Don’t fall behind — the business travel environment is constantly in flux. GBTA's resources keep you abreast of the latest news and research.

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GBTA Europe Events

Upcoming

 

GBTA Europe Sponsorship and Exhibition Opportunities

Is your organization looking to connect with European business travel and meetings management professionals? 


Increase your brand awareness and visibility by making an impact as a sponsor

Sponsor GBTA Conference – Berlin in Partnership with VDR


Expose your brand to the largest number of European business travel professionals

Exhibit at GBTA Conference – Berlin in Partnership with VDR


For sponsorship and exhibition enquiries, please contact:

Catherine Logan
Regional Vice President - Europe
Email Catherine
Mobile: +44 (0) 7980 588 181

 

GBTA Europe Membership

Join GBTA today and take advantage of all of the local and global features and programmes that are customized to support you, your company and your career.

Your GBTA Europe membership entitles you to membership of both GBTA’s European network and the broader GBTA association - providing you with all the resources and benefits of membership. GBTA is a global association with travel professional members located around the world, and has been a leader in the business travel industry for over forty years.

Join Directly

If you reside in a country where we currently do not have a partner association, you can join GBTA directly >

Join Through a Partner Association

If you reside where GBTA works with a partner association, you must be a member of the partner association to avail yourself of GBTA membership:



AUSTRIA - ABTA
Denmark - DBTA
Finland - FBTA
Germany - VDR
UK and Ireland - ITM
The Netherlands - NATM
Norway - NBTA
Spain and Portugal - IBTA
Sweden - SBTA

If you are already a member of one of the above partner associations, please proceed with registration for GBTA membership, which will either be complimentary or at a discounted rate for partner members. All memberships of partner associations are verified.

Leadership

The Advisory Board is a group of appointed buyer and supplier members of the network with the goal of creating membership benefit strategy, ensuring GBTA Europe remains led by buyers and monitoring that any activity undertaken by the network is in line with created strategy and objectives.

Ben Park
GBTA Europe, Regional Chair 
Senior Director Procurement & Travel
Parexel International GmbH

 

Stefan Asmuss
Board Member 
Global Travel Manager 
SAP SE

Roberta Billè
GBTA Italy President
Local Xpense manager and GEMS expert
Novartis Farma S.p.A.

Carol Fergus
Board Member
Global Travel Manager
Fidelity International

Stephen Hanton
Board Member
President International
Synergy Corporate Housing

Eija Kuttila
Board Member
Global Travel Manager
Telia Company

Jens Liltorp, CCTE
GBTA Board of Directors,
Direct Seat, Regional Europe
 
Manager, Global Travel and Meetings
LEO Pharma, Denmark

Catherine Logan
GBTA Europe Staff Delegate 
Regional Vice President - EMEA
GBTA

David McNeill
Board Member
AVP Global Corporate Sales, EMEA
Enterprise Holdings

Véra Strezyk 
Board Member 
Travel & MICE Buyer
Indirect Procurement Department

Stéphane Vallageas 
GBTA France representative 
Strategic Sourcing Manager, General Services
Pitney Bowes International

The Partnership Council is a group of single representatives from each of GBTA Europe’s partners. Its role is to guide the network to ensure it works in the interests of Europe’s regional partners and their members/subscribers, and to ensure the mutual co-operation of all partners for the benefit of all.

 

Anne Mette Berg
Council Member 
General Manager 
DBTA – Danish Business Travel Association

Hans-Ingo Biehl
Council Member 
Executive Director 
VDR - The German Business Travel Association

Hilde Dahmeson
Council Member 
President
NBTA - Norwegian Business Travel Association

Scott Davies
Council Member 
CEO  
ITM UK & Ireland Institute of Travel Management UK & Ireland

Lotten Fowler
Council Member 
General Manager
SBTA - Swedish Business Travel Association

Catherine Logan
Europe GBTA Staff Delegate
Regional Vice President - EMEA
GBTA

Odete Pimenta da Silva
Council Member 
Managing Director 
NATM - Netherlands Association for Travel Management

Sabine Toplak
Council Member 
Vice President 
ABTA - Austrian Business Travel Association

Sari Viljamaa
Council Member 
Managing Director 
FBTA - Finnish Business Travel Association
 

 

 

The European Advocacy Group is a group of single, buyer or association leadership representatives from each GBTA Europe Partner Association.

Our objectives are:

  • To be recognised by European Governments and the corporate travel industry as the voice of Corporate Travel & Meetings in Europe and the ‘Go To' organisation when a key issue is to be discussed, arises or requires comment.
  • To support partner association activity on national government basis.
  • To deliver additional value add to our buyer members by representing them and challenging any activity we believe is not in their interest.
  • To support and co-ordinate with the global efforts of GBTA on industry affairs activity.
  • To communicate our advocacy efforts and positions to our GBTA European members.

 

Anne Mette Berg
Group Member
DBTA – Danish Business Travel Association

Hans-Ingo Biehl
Group Member
Executive Director
VDR - The German Business Travel Association

Chris Crowley
Group Member 
Senior Vice President 
BCD Travel – on behalf of ITM Industry Affairs Group

Lotten Fowler
Group Member 
General Manager 
SBTA - Swedish Business Travel Association

Andreas Gruber
Group Member 
President 
ABTA - Austrian Business Travel Association

Catherine Logan
Europe GBTA Staff Delagate 
Regional Vice President - EMEA 
GBTA

Sandy Moring
Group Member 
Director of Education 
ITM – Institute of Travel Management UK & Ireland

Suzanne Neufang
GBTA Staff
CEO
GBTA

Odete Pimenta da Silva
Group Member 
Managing Director 
NATM - Netherlands Association for Travel Management

Stefan van Sliedregt
Group Member 
Travel & Fleet Management 
Foot Locker Europe B.V.

Jan Henrik Ulvatne
Group Member 
General Manager 
NBTA - Norway Business Travel Association

Stèphane Vallageas 
Group Member 
Chapter President – GBTA France Strategic Sourcing Manager 
Pitney Bowes

Sari Viljamaa
Group Member 
Managing Director 
FBTA - Finnish Business Travel Association

   

 

 

Contact GBTA Europe

Melanie Garrett

Vice President, Business Development – Europe
Email Melanie
+44 (0) 7736 105 257

Catherine Logan

Regional Vice President - Europe
Email Catherine
+44 (0) 7980 588 181

Dawn McCormick

Events and Operations Director – Europe
Email Dawn
+44 (0) 7525241864

Tara O'Sullivan

Marketing Manager
Email Tara

Nikki Stimson

Press
Email Nikki
+44 (0) 7764618199

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