Travel for business business still not completely restored.
Steve King Writes in Small Biz Labs
Skift's Travel Industry Megatrends
Skift is a travel industry analyst firm and one of our favorite sources on travel trends. Much of their content is behind a paywall, but they also produce free content (we subscribe to several of their newsletters).
We follow travel trends because of our interest in remote work and digital nomads. We're also active travelers, so we like travel trends.
They recently released their 2023 Travel Megatrends report. It covers 22 travel and travel industry trends.
Two trends jumped out at us.
Blended Travel Comes of Age covers the growth of travel that includes work and leisure. Key quote:
"The pandemic has led to a permanent change in how we live our lives between work and the personal. No longer just a trite category called "bleisure," the idea of blended traveling is front and center for every major travel company now. How new strategies focused on the blended traveler will emerge more clearly in 2023, as the industry recognizes the whole traveler holistically."
As the Skift chart below shows (click to enlarge), the share of business travel that includes a weekend has increased substantially since the start of the pandemic. ... '
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