How Uber and Airbnb Are Winning Over Business Travelers in 9 Charts
Photo Credit: The sharing economy disruption is now fully enmeshed with business travel. Flickr / Citymaus
Skift Take
For first time Uber is now more popular among business travelers than taxis as a percent of all rides, a seminal moment if there ever was one for the business traveler transport economy.
The formerly-sharing-economy—now more accurately called the rental economy—is now in full disruption mode, not just at the edges.
Consumers have already spoken with their apps, especially for companies like Uber and Airbnb, and now the big change is coming to the hitherto relatively hidebound corporate travel sector.
Business travelers have adopted these services, especially Uber, due to the ease of use, and 2015 will go down as the year where services such as these started getting integrated with the corporate travel booking and expense tools.
One such expense company Certify, a cloud based travel and expense management software company, just released its Q2 2015 business travel expense trends, based on analyzing the habits of its users.
The data shows that Uber is very mainstream in United States now, and for the first
