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Trump Border Policies Are Bad for Business Travel, Survey Finds

Hannah Sampson

Photo Credit: Sixty-two percent of travel buyers said in a recent survey they believed the administration's policies had led to a reduction in business travel. A February 2017 protest against the initial ban in Washington, D.C. is shown. Flickr / Ted Eytan

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The initial travel ban caused widespread chaos and confusion, and uncertainty has remained amid court challenges. Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld the ban, will business travel suffer as this survey suggests?

Travel bans just aren't great for business travel. A new survey released Tuesday by the Global Business Travel Association shows that 62 percent of U.S. travel buyers said they believe the administration is negatively affecting business travel. The poll was taken last week, before Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold the executive order banning travel from seven countries, the majority of which are Muslim-majority. Of the U.S. travel buyers who responded to the survey, 37 percent said that they believed a ruling to uphold the ban would result in a reduction of business travel at their companies in the future. Thus fa

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