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Earlier this month, the Global Business Travel Association announced it
had launched a diversity, equality and inclusion committee. It followed a
similar initiative by the fledgling Travel and Meetings Society in 2020.
Some corporate travel professionals might wonder whether such groups are
needed in an industry where, those interviewed for this analysis agree, overt racial,
sexual or gender discrimination is rare.
But even if less obvious than a white police officer’s knee squeezing the
life out of a prone black man’s neck, that doesn’t mean there isn’t a problem –
either in the corporate travel sector or for minority business travellers.