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🚨 Another exciting dojo.live Pop-Up Interview from GBTA 2024! 🚨 We spoke with Michael Brophy, Corporate Storyteller, Director of Global Media Relations at HRS Stay, Work & Pay, to discuss the current state of business travel. With COVID now behind us, travel spend is back at 2019 levels, and here’s the kicker: corporate hospitality tech spend has surpassed air travel spend! ✈️💻 Michael emphasized that AI and digitalization are the future of managing spend, security, and sustainability in the industry. Don't miss out on these critical insights! #BusinessTravel #TechInnovation #AI #Digitalization #GBTA2024 #CorporateTravel

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Hello, my name is Michael Brophy. I am Director of Global Media Relations for HRS Germany based company. But we are active on all the major continents. We work with hotels in 175 nations and we've worked with 35% of the Fortune 500 on some element of their corporate lodging or meeting program. We are driving the implementation of digitized. An AI solutions to help companies get the absolute most value out of what they spend when they send their people out on business trips, when they send their people out on meetings. And we're also trying to do that more sustainably. Our Green State initiative has won awards. We are used by more than 600 hotel brands and dozens of Fortune 500 programs that help reduce their carbon emissions on their travel. Leave his #24 for me. 20 Ohh yeah, I'm a creature of this event. I've spent a lot of time going to GTA. I do prefer the ones in Southern California because living in Dallas, I missed the bread and I missed the beach. So I'm always a fan when it's in LA and San Diego. But this has been a great event so far for us here this week in Atlanta. Well, I think the industry is really at a, at a fulcrum here moving forward. All the, you know, the horror show that was recovering from COVID is now past us. A GTA just put out numbers this week saying that business travel spend levels are at 2019 levels. We're also seeing, you know, we do corporate hospitality technology and increasingly that spend line is bigger than air. So we have more corporations than ever. That are trying to get their hands wrapped around what they spend and how they can manage that money, spend it more wisely, you know, partner with different hotels maybe that offer that's just a a better spend scenario, but also more quality experience for the travelers, different locations, you know, safety, security, sustainability. All these elements are in the mix and corporations now have new insights with data and transparency to make better choices and new choices as they strategize. 2025. While we believe that so much of what needs to happen is the work of technology, harnessing AI, taking advantage of the digitized solutions that are already in play and the ones that are being worked on. So all this can be done under the hood to make the whole travel experience much more elegant for the business traveler. Why do we send our people on trips to conduct business? We want to make it easier for them. We want to make it safe for them, but we also need to make it financially viable. We wanted to make compelling propositions for them to use the different programs and supplier partners that they want, but also do so more sustainably. The key to all this as we look at 2025 and moving forward is AI. Digitization, having data flowing to the right channels in a real time way so people can make the right decisions at the right time. Digital. I think that is the keyword if there was a phrase elegant and under the hood.

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