The National Business Travel Association’s board of directors unanimously approved a merger proposal even though the same measure failed to pass the board at Association of Corporate Travel Executives a week earlier.NBTA’s vote changes nothing for ACTE, said Jack Riepe, spokesperson for ACTE. “There is nothing on the table. There are no talks in progress. There is nothing scheduled,” Riepe said.Informal merger discussions between board members of both organizations began in early 2009, which led to a draft proposal sent to the full boards of both organizations for a vote. ACTE’s board was scheduled to meet first. But on June 9, the proposal failed to get the necessary… Read More