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Business Travelers Booking With Travel Agents Aren't Using the Sharing Economy

Andrew Sheivachman

Photo Credit: Business travel from the U.S. to Europe stayed strong in 2016, according to a Travel Leaders Group survey, despite terror fears. Here, travelers wander around Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in 2014. Flickr / Chris Chabot

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One-in-four of Travel Leaders Group's business travel agents say their sales numbers are worse than last year. You have to worry about the sector's health going into 2017, given its quantifiable decline compared to previous years.

The sharing economy represents something of a new phenomenon for travel agents, despite services like Airbnb and Uber being essentially mainstreamed among consumers. Some new data from Travel Leaders Group show that business travel agents are finally heeding more requests from their clients for alternate accommodation services and new ground transportation options. The CEOs of Expedia, Commune Hotels, Upside, and More Are Speaking at Skift Global Forum 2016. Join Us. Travel Leaders Group polled 354 of its agency owners, managers, and agents this summer who earn more half or more of their sales in business travel. It found that 34.1

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