Social capital—or, as Festive Road managing partner Paul Tilstone describes it, "stuff that impacts your brain and your heart"—can be a valuable return from business travel, whether it's building a relationship that eventually results in a sale or driving collaboration that produces better end results for a company. How can you measure it, how can you maximize and how can you ensure its value is considered when travel budgets are under discussion?

Social capital—or, as Festive Road managing partner Paul Tilstone describes it, "stuff that impacts your brain and your heart"—can be a valuable return from business travel, whether it's building a relationship that eventually results in a sale or driving collaboration that produces better end results for a company. How can you measure it, how can you maximize and how can you ensure its value is considered when travel budgets are under discussion?

A podcast from the editors of Business Travel News. Join Business Travel News editors to talk with some of the smartest suppliers, buyers, intermediaries and technology companies in the managed travel space. We’ll talk trends, return to travel, technology innovation, new commercial models, market dynamics. If it affects business travel, you’ll hear it first on TheBiz@BTN.

BTN’s first series of podcasts gets up close with the innovators and envelope pushers who most influenced the business travel sector in 2020. What are they doing now and what is their outlook as the industry recovers? BTN Editorial Director Elizabeth West interviews industry leaders who made big moves during the pandemic.

A podcast from the editors of Business Travel News. Join Business Travel News editors to talk with some of the smartest suppliers, buyers, intermediaries and technology companies in the managed travel space. We&rsquo;ll talk trends, return to travel, technology innovation, new commercial models, market dynamics. If it affects business travel, you&rsquo;ll hear it first on <a href="mailto:TheBiz@BTN">TheBiz@BTN</a>.
BTN&rsquo;s first series of podcasts gets up close with the innovators and envelope pushers who most influenced the business travel sector in 2020. What are they doing now and what is their outlook as the industry recovers? BTN Editorial Director Elizabeth West interviews industry leaders who made big moves during the pandemic.

The Biz at BTN Podcast

The Biz at BTN

Social capital as key to business travel value. Festive Road's Paul Tilstone defines the term and talks with host BTN Executive Editor Michael B. Baker about how and why it could be measured.

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