2010: Travel Management Enters the Modern Age

Business travel begins a strong climb back into relevancy in
2010 after the decimation of the global banking and pursuant economic crisis of
2007 and 2008 begins to recede into the distance. Business travel demand returns
to the airlines by the third quarter and the travel industry sees both airfares
and hotel rates rise on stronger load factors and occupancy that would prove
durable through 2011.

What’s clear in the pages of BTN by 2010 is the emergence of
modern business travel as we know it.

While it is arguable that business travel is on the cusp of
another revolution today—thanks to technology advancement and particularly
artificial intelligence—the drivers of modern business travel concerns are falling
into place by the end…