Millennials Aren’t as Bad as You Think — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Millennials usually spend less on business travel than their more experienced colleagues. Pictured are millennials at a meeting. Flickr / ITU Pictures
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Millennials are more frugal when traveling for business than their older coworkers. Who would have thought — and who knows how long that will last?
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
Dealing with the habits of millennials, particularly their penchant for ignoring corporate travel policy and booking whatever they want, is a big challenge for travel managers.
New research on business travel spending from Concur, however, shows that millennial travel patterns are actually a bit more conservative than older workers.
Concur's research shows that younger travelers spend 18 percent less overall than workers aged 35 to 65 on dining, entertainment, and hotel bookings. Millennials spend less, in particula
