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These two global agencies’ 2022 fiscal, first-half results signal the importance of winning public sector business in the years ahead.
Government employees and essential service workers rarely stopped traveling during the pandemic, keeping countries functioning during lockdowns. For thousands of critical care nurses, construction workers, cleaners and countless other professions, life had to go on.
Today, government contracts represent a valuable market for the larger corporate travel agencies, who see the upside in their travel resilience during a crisis.
Flight Centre Travel Group and Corporate Travel Management aim to win more public sector contracts in the years ahead, gaining more of the business that helped sustain them through the pandemic.
FCM, Flight Centre’s business travel division, has been focusing on Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus the Americas, where vaccine roll-outs have accelerated the…