In 2023, spending on business travel in Italy was greater than €21 billion, up 23 per cent on the previous year, according to Professor Andrea Guizzardi , director of the Business Travel Observatory, a collaboration between the Travel Innovation Observatory of the Polytechnic of Milan and the University of Bologna.
This is above pre-pandemic levels and comes two years earlier than travel managers predicted in 2020. At the Polytechnic of Milan’s Travel Innovation Observatory in January, Guizzardi said, “We are recovering 2019 levels even though the number of trips is growing less and is still far from the pre-pandemic year: a gap that highlights the crucial role of the inflationary dynamics of…