Travel Buyers Suffer New Affliction: Border Closure Anxiety
Photo Credit: Company travel managers are preparing to help staff return to travel. Unsplash / Aleksei Zaitcev
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Companies are welcoming the reopening of borders, but for those people in charge of making business trips run smoothly, the stress levels are rising.
Australians have had their fair share of stop-start travel, as the country's various states shut down with just hours notice to contain Covid flare-ups.
Now, one travel manager has joked she’s developed a new condition: border closure anxiety.
“A few weeks ago, I jokingly said in the office that I had a condition called BCA — border closure anxiety — and that was also feeding over to our travelers and staff,” said Stephanie Maisano, global travel and expense lead, procurement at Australian infrastructure company Transurban.
Despite the trademark Aussie humor, there are risks ahead. Company employees
