Travel This Week — What To Expect

Conferences and earnings season, as well as approaching contract deadlines, always portend big news in the week ahead. From a travel industry perspective, here’s what you need to know. Global Business Travel Association Conference 2017 GBTA Convention 2017 has already kicked off in Boston and, as expected, the product and partnership announcements are flying at breakneck speed. The theme is “convergence” so you can anticipate lots of talk about the sharing economy and corporate travel, as well as all-important bleisure trends. As the conference proceeds over the next few days, we expect to get greater insight into how Trump administration policies, global political unrest, and macro-economic issues have impacted business travel demand in recent months and what the outlook will be. There are also things, we predict, that won’t be overtly discussed, and they highlight a sometimes-lack of convergence between the big wheels