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Time-Starved Business Travelers Are Missing the Bleisure Trend

Hannah Sampson

Photo Credit: Nearly 40 percent of business travelers in North America added a leisure stay to their work trip, a new study says. Shown here is Nashville, a popular destination for both business and leisure travel.  Flickr / Thomas Hawk

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While bleisure travel isn't growing in a huge way, this study shows nearly half of millennial business travelers add leisure to business trips. Those young travelers could cut back as they get older — or employers might need to better adjust to a rise in bleisure down the road.

Nearly four in 10 business travelers in North America added a leisure leg to their work trip in the past year, according to a new study. The report, by the education and research branch of the Global Business Travel Association, shows that there hasn't been much change in the number of workers who mix leisure with business travel. While 37 percent of those surveyed said they took a so-called "bleisure" trip over the past year, a similar report last year indicated that 36 percent of business travelers based in the U.S. had added leisure to at least one work trip in the prior year. Younger employees are more likely to add vacation to their work travel; 48 percent of millennia

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