Academy for Travel
Professional education built for every discipline in the travel industry. Practitioner-led courses. Real commercial intelligence. Verified credentials that matter.
Corporate Travel Training: a Professional Development Programme
Our inaugural certificate programme: a commercially rigorous Mini-MBA covering every dimension of corporate travel management. More disciplines launching soon.
Mini-MBA in Corporate Travel
A commercially rigorous certificate programme explaining how corporate travel actually operates: economically, operationally and strategically. Built for travel-industry professionals who want practical insight and recognised credentials.
Mini-MBA: Corporate Travel in the U.K.
A practical Mini-MBA for the U.K. corporate travel market, exploring its commercial structure, key players, procurement, technology and operations.
Inside the GDS: How Corporate Travel Distribution Really Works
Practitioner-led course launching soon.
NDC for Travel Managers
Explore the intricacies of New Distribution Capability (NDC) to optimize airline procurement, enhance traveler experience, and streamline operations. This course empowers travel managers with insights to leverage NDC for strategic advantage and cost efficiency.
Why Academy for Travel stands apart
Every feature is designed for travel-industry professionals: commercial negotiations, practical decision-making and the realities of working in a global industry.
Strategic Simulations
Interactive modelling tools: airline discount calculators, NDC vs GDS cost comparisons, Scope 3 trade-off analysis.
Professional Certification
LinkedIn-shareable credentials with unique verification IDs. Recognition that travels with your career.
Corporate Cohort Mode
Group enrolment with team leaderboards, completion analytics and enterprise dashboard for HR and procurement leaders.
AI Strategic Assistant
A private assistant trained on corporate travel economics, programme lexicon and proprietary frameworks.
Regional & Global Context
A curriculum grounded in international best practice with sharp focus on regional context.
Practitioner Case Studies
Real-world decision scenarios drawn from travel programme management, supplier negotiations, and policy design — analysed through a commercial lens.
100+ master infographics across the Mini-MBA
Across the Mini-MBA, complex commercial mechanics become beautifully rendered, boardroom-ready visual explanations. These pages are a preview of the larger visual library waiting inside the course.
What you're looking at
One page, whole mechanic
Each infographic compresses an entire commercial mechanic — flows of money, incentives, and leverage — into a single legible page.
Drawn for industry professionals
Every master is composed to a professional standard, in the course's own visual language — a consistent visual system purpose-built for the subject matter.
Narrated in sync
Inside the course, each visual builds in step with the lecture audio, so the picture lands exactly when the argument does.
100+ master infographics across the Mini-MBA — keep scrolling
Build the mental model
Roles and Incentives of Key Participants
By the time you reach “Roles and Incentives of Key Participants”, you won't just recognise the diagram — you'll be able to redraw it from memory in a supplier negotiation.
Explain it to your CFO
How TMCs Actually Operate
“How TMCs Actually Operate” turns a topic most managers hand-wave into a one-page argument you can walk your finance team through line by line.
Use it the next morning
Corporate Travel Procurement Strategy
Learners tell us “Corporate Travel Procurement Strategy” is the visual they screenshot and reuse — in QBRs, RFPs, and board papers.
100+ master infographics across the Mini-MBA
From pricing mechanics to supplier strategy, the pages above are a preview of the larger Mini-MBA library: 100+ master infographics designed to make complex commercial decisions clear, memorable, and useful on the job.
Learn on the go —
wherever life takes you
Your professional development shouldn't be confined to a desk. Fit industry-focused learning into the moments you already have.
Turn your commute into a classroom
Audio lectures crafted for travel professionals — absorb commercial frameworks on the train, in a cab, or in the air.
Multitask without missing a beat
Listen while you exercise, cook, or travel. High-quality narration means you never have to stare at a screen to learn.
Pick up exactly where you left off
Progress syncs instantly across every device. Start a module on desktop, finish it on your phone — seamlessly.
Sofia AI
Travel Industry Expert
Meet Sofia, your AI tutor
Sofia AI is your personal learning guide built into the platform — trained exclusively on travel industry economics, airline commercial structures, TMC operations, and procurement frameworks. When you submit an exercise, she analyses your reasoning, identifies what's commercially sound, flags where your logic has gaps, and shows you how an experienced travel professional would approach the same problem.
Contextual Feedback
Tailored to each module's commercial frameworks
Strengths & Gaps
Identifies what you know and what to develop
Commercial Rigour
Grounded in real procurement and supplier logic
Regional Context
Duopoly dynamics, panels and local market realities
AI coaching tiers
Industry practitioners. Not lecturers.
Every faculty member has held senior commercial or operational roles in the travel industry.
Peter Harbison
Lead Faculty, Academy for Travel
One of the most influential figures in global aviation strategy, Peter founded CAPA – Centre for Aviation, the world's leading provider of independent aviation market intelligence. A former IATA Commissioner and Chairman of Greener Airlines, he has shaped policy and commercial thinking across the industry for over three decades.
Derek Sadubin
Director of Programs, Academy for Travel
A highly respected strategist with over 25 years at the forefront of aviation commercial development and corporate travel advisory. Derek has held senior roles advising airlines, airports and travel buyers on market positioning, route economics and procurement strategy across Asia-Pacific.
Hear why leaders are joining.
"The airline economics module alone saved us $340K in our next RFP. I finally understood what the commercial team actually cared about."
James R.
Global Travel Manager, Mining Sector
"This is MBA-level rigour applied to a domain that desperately needed it. The TMC operations module transformed how we manage our supplier."
Sarah K.
Procurement Director, Professional Services
"Finally a course that speaks the language of finance leadership. The ROI modelling section went straight into our board presentation."
David M.
CFO, Technology Scale-up