Bleisure Travel: The Rise Of Mixing Business With Pleasure
“Research indicates that nearly half of American workers now embrace the concept of bleisure travel, and bleisure trips currently reach a worldwide market value of nearly $600 billion. Research indicates this market is expected to grow by around 500% or more over the next decade.”
A transforming industry: travel trend predictions for 2025
“The travel and tourism industry is in a period of transition with significant shifts in consumer behaviour as well as industry practices.”
Has Remote Work Changed the Travel Landscape?
“No longer constrained by vacation days and getting back from a trip by Monday, remote workers have shifted the travel landscape, maybe for good. While executives continue to hem and haw over return-to-office plans, remote workers are happily sending emails from afar.”
McKinsey Explainer: What is the Future of Travel?
“Sixty-six percent of travelers we surveyed said they are more interested in travel now than before the COVID-19 pandemic. And millennials and Gen Zers are traveling more and spending a higher share of their income on travel than their older counterparts.”
Newsweek: Headwinds Are Gathering in Front of a Corporate Travel Recovery in 2022
“A resurgence of corporate travel is central to a full recovery of the travel industry and the global economy from the pandemic.”
GBTA: Long-Term Global Business Travel Outlook
“[The global business travel industry] continues to reflect progress and optimism in its long–view expectations for 2022, according to the latest poll from the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA)”
CNBC: Business Travel Demand Expected to Surge in 2022, But Full Recovery Still Two Years Away
“Business travel spending worldwide will likely jump more than 37% [in 2022] to over $1 trillion but the normally lucrative industry won’t fully recover until 2024…”
Skift: 7 Trends That Will Define Corporate Travel and Expense in 2022
“Corporate travel agencies and other travel platforms need to stay nimble ahead of Covid-19 and future challenges, while solving for misalignments in new line items like remote work expenses and broader employee benefits.”
Business Travel News: The Dawn of Travel as a Strategy
“In 2022 more senior executives will begin grasping that travel should be used as a strategy—one that will enable the achievement of their bigger, outward-facing goals.”