Business Travel News

Travel managers will have a lot to worry about going into next year; at least significantly higher prices likely won't be one of them.

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

Small business owners are eager to take a vacation, but seldom get the chance to do so. Resourceful ones are mixing business with leisure and making smart use of business rewards credit cards to make their “me time” special.

It may indeed be the case that combining business travel and leisure travel isn't a priority for most folks. But as more millennials become business travelers, they're certainly going to look to explore during their business trips.

Large events like the national political conventions and South by Southwest provide baseline case studies about how to drive passionate engagement between brands and attendees.

Years ago, the leisure travel industry embraced web and mobile technologies—offering everything from great user experience, to ratings and reviews, to discounts on optional services. Corporate travel evolved at a slightly slower pace, and business travelers were left with what appeared to be significantly fewer choices. Now, that gradual development is picking up speed in the face of intensifying consumer expectations.

For almost any kind of conference to evolve significantly in the future, it needs to leverage the collective knowledge of the community using modern technology to create a more inclusive programming schedule.

Uncertainty remains the key word when it comes to business travel, but a year of record spending followed by "moderate" growth is still good news for the industry.

It makes sense that business travelers who don't travel very much would try to include some leisure elements when they do hit the road.

There is progress being made on both the client and travel management company sides when it comes to letting employees book the accommodations that they want (in budget, of course).