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This is the most comprehensive overview of digital passports you will watch. The CEO of the Commons Project Foundation, offers his candid views and insights on this video interview.

The message for the travel industry is clear: Engage with company travel managers, understand their organization's culture and DNA, and help them redefine what business travel means after the pandemic.

The path to common usage and acceptance will be a difficult one. One thing to remember: Digital health passports aren’t just about travel — but they will help you get to the beach quicker.

Hotels and airlines, rejoice: a larger remote workforce in the future will likely usher in an entirely new type of corporate travel.

It's not just about the remote work potential for businesses — it's also about spending more on "company culture" by investing in in-person staff meetings and events, and focusing on establishing relationships. That's why the future of the hybrid hospitality model appears to be bright.

American Express GBT's top boss Paul Abbott knows that having a distributed workforce can boost business travel spending. The travel management giant itself went 90 percent remote in the U.S. several years ago, and it saw its business travel expenses rise.

We're bringing together the brightest minds in corporate travel — one of the sectors hit hardest during the pandemic — for frank conversations on how corporate travel will return, how technology is reshaping this sector, and the evolving role of buyers as we see an increasingly remote workforce globally.

Profit, revenue and trends became less relevant during the pandemic so many travel businesses with deeper pockets used the standstill to rethink their strategies. Plenty of the new efforts will fail, but on the other side of the crisis, some of these businesses will look significantly different.

Expedia has no plans to spin off whole-home site Vrbo following Airbnb's blockbuster IPO. Instead, the company is doubling down on expanding the site through its various channels amid a strong pandemic vacation rental market.

Traveloka is strengthening its local offerings with a potential public listing in its future, either through a traditional IPO or a red hot SPAC. The approach may be paying off as the company works to bolster its operations for a post-pandemic world, but how much more localization can the app offer?