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Global Travel Management’s travel industry awards and nominations

Global Travel Management has been awarded and nominated for many industry titles over the years.

From local awards in Surrey to national awards arranged for businesses across the United Kingdom, Global Travel Management has received a wide range of awards and nominations. These awards have been for individuals within the business, for specific projects and products and for the business as a whole.

Below, you can see some of the most recent we have been privileged to receive.

Best Workplace in Travel 2024

June 2024

Global Travel Management has picked up first place in the 2024 Best Workplaces in Travel awards.

The national award scheme – promoted by Best Workplaces in Travel and sponsored by some of the biggest names in the travel, recruitment and marketing industries – is an annual survey, encompassing businesses across all ranges of the travel spectrum.

2024 is the first year Global Travel Management has entered the survey and, in the first year, picked up the firsts prize award in the category for businesses with fewer than 50 employees.

Scott Pawley said, after the presentation,

I am delighted that we’ve been recognised for making Global Travel Management a great place to work. When Natalie Pawley and I started the business twenty-seven years ago, we had two equal priorities: keep every customer happy and make GTM a great place to work. I am happy to say that the latter helps us every day with the former.

We’re much more than a business, we’re a family. And, like most families, we’ve worked hard to overcome the rough and enjoy the smooth together. Every member of staff makes GTM a great place to work for every member of staff.


Business Travel Company of the Year

March 2024

We are very pleased and proud to announce that Global Travel Management has been awarded the title of Business Travel Company of the Year for 2024.

Scott Pawley picked up the award from Jonathan Lord when he and Natalie Pawley met with the Woking MP at the Palace of Westminster.

In celebrating the award, Scott paid tribute to all the employees of GTM, telling staff,

The reason we won this award is you. Thanks to your hard work, in every aspect of the business, we’ve been noticed, acknowledged and rewarded. We are – as we’ve always known anyway – officially the best business travel company in the UK.


Travel Businesswoman of the Year

February 2024

GTM Director Natalie Pawley, has been named as the Travel Businesswoman of the Year for 2024.

Natalie, who received her award from Woking MP Jonathan Lord at the Palace of Westminster, was delighted to receive the trophy, which adds to recent awards for the company from The Advantage Travel Partnership and Focus Travel Partnership.

Jonathan Lord said

I was very pleased to present Natalie with her award as Travel Businesswoman of the Year. As MP for Woking, it’s always gratifying to see businesses from the constituency thriving. So, congratulations to Natalie and all her colleagues at a great Woking business. 

Natalie added,

This is a great honour, but it also throws down the gauntlet to me: I will be continuing to work hard to lift women within Global Travel Management, so that we can continue to offer the best all-round service to our customers. 


Travel Bulletin Star Awards Finalist

December 2023

We’re immensely pleased and proud to have been nominated as a finalist in the highly coveted Travel Bulletin Star Awards for 2023.

This nomination is in the new, crucial category, the Star Sustainability Initiative. The award has been introduced to recognise the efforts the travel industry is making to adopt sustainable policies and practices.

As the inaugural travel management company to launch a sustainable offering with our partners Trees4Travel, we’ve been recognised for the tremendous success and achievements of the GTM Carbon Offset Programme, as well as the wider efforts of Global Travel Management to head towards – and beyond – net zero across all aspects of the business.


Advantage Travel Partnership Spotlight Award

December 2023

Scott Pawley, Global Travel Management’s Managing Director was nominated for a Spotlight Award by industry consortium the Advantage Travel Partnership.

The annual award singles out one person who has made a significant contribution to the industry over the course of – in Scott’s case – many years.

After the award ceremony in London, Scott said,

This award is a great honour for me, because it’s bestowed by the incredibly well regarded, hard working team of travel professionals at The Advantage Travel Partnership. I am very pleased to have been presented with this award and I would like to thank Julia Lo Bue Said and the team at Advantage.

This award is for the work we are doing at Global Travel Management Ltd. It’s in recognition of the work we have done to deploy the most cutting-edge technology for our customers. Like Your Concierge, the travel assistant driven by the latest machine learning and artificial intelligence technology. Like PinPoint, the traveller tracking and corporate duty of care tool. Like GTM Online, the corporate self-booking tool. And like our app, which delivers real-time travel itinerary information to the palms of travellers’ hands.

It’s also in recognition with the work we do with our partners at Trees4Travel, enabling us to expand the forest of trees we and our customers have planted to combat the greenhouse gas emissions from business travel – and from every aspect of our business. 


Advantage Travel Partnership Marketing Campaign of the Year

December 2023

Global Travel Management has been named the winner of the annual Advantage Travel Partnership award for the industry’s best marketing campaign.

The Best Marketing Initiative/Campaign 2023 was awarded to Global Travel Management’s Sales and Marketing teams at the annual Big Celebration Lunch in London.

The award was collected by Global Travel Management Marketing Director Mark Wilson who said,

I am very pleased the work we do to share information on the business travel industry has been recognised by Advantage. Each week we craft emails which highlight the latest developments in the industry in a light-hearted and informative way. We are used to receiving compliments for the content of the emails, but to receive recognition from Advantage is hugely welcome.

The business travel industry is fast-moving and constantly-developing. So we work hard to make sure people are aware of the important issues that face business travellers, bookers and those with an interest in the sector.


Focus Travel Partnership Outstanding Contribution

November 2023

Global Travel Management Sales Director Paul Baker has received an honour from the Focus Travel Partnership.

Paul has been singled out for his on-going work in the partnership’s Air Steering Group, which sets the commercial and technical relationship between airlines and Focus Travel Partnership members across the United Kingdom.

In their commendation, Focus stated that Paul – a key member of the Air Steering Group since its inception – is key to the relationship between Focus membership and airlines. Focus stated,

Paul’s input is instrumental in the dialogues that take place with our airline partners and often the results that come from those dialogues. He brings the operational element of using fares and gaining access to support channels to the table so these can be addressed with relevant airlines across the Central team’s wider remits. In addition, he regularly raise topics and suggestions to peers in the Steering Group so that open dialogues about challenges and opportunities for the whole Focus partnership can be assessed.