Business travellers are going on longer trips and pursuing more “purposeful travel” following the pandemic, according to the bosses of the Advantage Travel Partnership.
The TMC network, which is holding its annual conference in the Mexican resort of Cancun this week, said that business travel was “going from strength to strength” but there were changes in how people were travelling.
Jo Lo Bue-Said, the partnership’s CEO, said: “The leisure sector drives what we’re seeing in business travel. Business travellers’ expectations are fuelled by their experiences of leisure travel.
“People don’t want to be in the destination for just 24 hours – taking the red eye in the morning and coming back late at night. They want to…