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GTMC forges partnership with AWTE
Business travel agent body, the GTMC, has formed a new partnership with the Association of Women Travel Executives (AWTE).
By joining forces with the GTMC, the AWTE hopes it will be able to influence the UK’s business travel community to ensure there is equality in the workplace and forge closer relationships with the airlines, accommodation companies and technology providers which are already travel industry partners.
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GTMC CEO Adrian Parkes said: "Although the travel industry has a higher ratio of women in senior positions than many of its counterparts, there is still a long way to go before women achieve true economic equality with men.
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"GTMC believes that workplace diversity is an essential component of innovation and growth. We are therefore looking forward to working alongside the AWTE to encourage members to make the vital changes that make great business as well as ethical sense."
New regulations, which comes into force from April 6, aim to address the current UK gender pay gap by forcing UK companies with over 250 employees to publish gender pay gaps.
AWTE chair Sarah Clayton Turner said: "With the new law change, the issue around gender pay gap has been thrust into the spotlight and companies will now be required to actively create a more equal and modern workplace.
"Equality is an issue that affects us all, whether we’re male or female, an employee or employer, colleague or parent so we’re delighted to have the support of the GTMC. We look forward to engaging its members and working together to help women in business travel realise their full potential and make the glass ceiling a thing of the past."
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Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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