{"id":637102,"date":"2023-12-05T06:08:25","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=wherenext&p=637102"},"modified":"2024-05-10T05:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-10T12:19:40","slug":"business-travel-shifts","status":"publish","type":"wherenext","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/publications\/wherenext\/business-travel-shifts","title":{"rendered":"Meet the New Business Traveler"},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[],"tags":[473942,473102,419072,1461],"department":[488812],"wherenext-category":[],"industry":[],"class_list":["post-637102","wherenext","type-wherenext","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-emissions","tag-operational-efficiency","tag-productivity","tag-sustainability","department-emerging-technologies"],"acf":{"short_description":"Operational efficiency and sustainability are reshaping post-pandemic business travel, according to a new survey.","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":"","file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"New survey data reveals that global business travel has nearly rebounded to pre-pandemic levels, thwarting some predictions<\/a>. But corporate travelers in 2023 are navigating very differently than they did in 2019.\r\n\r\nLast-minute bookings for pricey seats<\/a> on the plane are out. So are trips lasting less than 24 hours.<\/a> Businesses are maximizing the ROI of every airline voyage by cutting travel costs and squeezing more meetings into longer trips."},{"acf_fc_layout":"sidebar","layout":"standard","image_reference":null,"image_reference_figure":"","spotlight_image":null,"section_title":"","spotlight_name":"","position":"Left","content":"Article snapshot:<\/strong> For companies and employees adjusting to new travel patterns, a geographic view can simplify decisions.","snippet":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"A renewed emphasis on efficiency and productivity<\/a> is one of the major themes that emerged from an October poll<\/a> of over 17,000 travel professionals conducted by the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA).\r\n\r\nThe polled group included members of the travel industry who supply transportation through agencies, hotels, and airlines, as well as corporate travel buyers who book travel for their colleagues or companies. Regions included the US, Latin America, Europe, and Asia-Pacific.\r\n\r\nSixty-nine percent of respondents named the top barrier to business travel as costs that are rising faster than corporate budgets. A slightly smaller number, 63 percent, cited general inflation or recession concerns.\r\n\r\nComparing the results regionally reveals subtle distinctions in how business travel is shifting. In Europe and Latin America, two-thirds of travel buyers named sustainability<\/a> as one of the top three priorities for their travel programs next year. In the US, cost management emerged as the primary concern of American travel buyers\u2014at 74 percent, the highest of any region surveyed in the study.\r\n