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New Zealand has taken the top spot as the most popular international destination for Australia for meetings, events, and conferences in the 2023 calendar year, according to new data from business travel specialists FCM.

February 14, 2023 – The fourth quarter of 2022 wrapped up the corporate travel industry’s year of recovery, kept buoyant by strong growth in Q2 and Q3, with FCM Consulting’s latest Global Quarterly Trend Report forecasting global aviation to be back to 96% of pre-pandemic levels in 2023. Download the full report to get more insights.

Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT) has released its 2023 fiscal year (FY23) 1H accounts.

Qualtrics (Nasdaq: XM), the leader and creator of the experience management (XM) category, has announced Flight Centre Travel Group (FLT), one of the world’s largest travel retailers and corporate travel managers, has selected Qualtrics CustomerXM to help improve customer retention and growth, and to boost travel consultant productivity across its corporate brands FCM and Corporate Traveller.

Overseas travel is continuing it’s strong comeback in New Zealand, with Q3-2022 has seeing the highest peak in travel in recent times with the quarter also enjoying the highest seat capacity available this year.

FCM has been named ‘New Zealand’s Leading Travel Management Company’ at the prestigious World Travel Awards during a star-studded gala ceremony in Vietnam.

FCM is pleased to announce that Glenn Thorsen has been appointed as Sustainability Lead – FCM Consulting.

Business travel’s premier event of the year will make a triumphant return as Flight Centre Corporate’s Illuminate 2022, virtually on Thursday 20 October, levels up with a ‘Focus Forward – Bigger, Better, Stronger’ theme.

Our parent company, Flight Centre Travel Group has today announced its annual results for the financial year 2021/2022.

The international travel bounce back is predicted to continue for the rest of the year with global airline seat capacity forecast to be back to 85 per cent of pre-COVID levels by the end of 2022, according to FCM Consulting’s latest Global Quarterly Trend Report.

The Flight Centre Travel Group has today announced that long-serving senior leader Melissa Elf will take the reins as Managing Director of all the corporate divisions (FCM, Corporate Traveller, Flight Centre Business Travel, Stage & Screen) across both Australia and New Zealand.

FCM’s parent company, Flight Centre Travel Group, celebrates the milestone of 40 years in business.