Business Travel News

More travel companies are reporting a reduction in business travel spending, which clashes with reports that business travel is still on the rise globally. Stay tuned for the rest of the year to see which narrative is borne out, especially as we get closer to the U.S. presidential election.

2016 is shaping up to be the year that everyone revolts against boring meetings, and many event owners, meeting planners, and hospitality executives are paying attention.

The ease and availability of booking creative meeting venues online is shifting how and where companies host their internal meetings.

As companies become more cautious about business travel spending, the corporate travel ecosystem will begin to feel the pressure.

These are the tourism trends we were talking about this week.

Southwest CEO Gary Kelly is dismissing union calls for his ouster but if profits slip, or there is another major tech outage, then the CEO's future will get more interesting.

Cautious growth has been the forecast for a while now, and we're already seeing the impact on travel companies. We're curious if the rest of the year will bring more of the same.

With the Brexit vote just behind us and U.S. elections looming, some form of stability — eventually — will be a welcome change of pace for companies that cater to corporate travelers.

Is research the new content marketing for convention bureaus? We hope so because it's a good way for cities to differentiate themselves, and it provides new inspiration for event programming and education.

Global business travel had a great year in 2015, thanks to overall economic growth, but 2016 could be a different story as there's considerably more uncertainty in global markets this year.