We are excited to share that yet another leading travel industry conference has chosen Chicago for an upcoming annual meeting! Today, GBTA | Global Business Travel Association announced that GBTA 2026 will be hosted at McCormick Place. For over half a century, GBTA has been the premier global event for the business travel industry, convening planners, destinations, and other meeting and convention professionals. We can't wait to welcome this esteemed group to Chicago! Special thank you to our partners at the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity and Illinois Office of Tourism for providing an incentive grant program that helped secure this win for our city.
Tim Plamondon
2mo
This is big time for Chicago - and great timing as this year’s GBTA wraps up. Well done Choose Chicago!
This is great news for our city and our industry! Is there a way to sign up for updates for this as the months continue?
Tina Gruman
2mo
#choosechicago is rocking it with all These amazing conferences!
Erin King
2mo
👏👏👏👏
This is a big one, excited for Chicago! Well done everyone.
Anne Brostrom
2mo
So excited to see more and more happening in Chicago!!
Kim Morris
2mo
Amazing! This is Major. Way to incentivize for meeting networking & commerce.
Go Chicago 🙌
Olivia Maximo
2mo
This is exciting news!
Deputy Director, Illinois Office of Tourism | Driving Tourism Growth for the State of Illinois’ $82 billion tourism industry. Emmy award-winning Kiwi/American storyteller.
2moThanks to the Choose Chicago, Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events (DCASE) and Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity Illinois Office of Tourism teams - together, we are going to continue to win for our city and state!