2023 marked the first ‘normal’ year after the pandemic for many and the recovery of business travel in the Benelux region highlighted that.
The Global Business Travel Association’s Business Travel Spending Forecast predicted that the Netherlands would be the 13th biggest market in the world in 2023, with a total spend of US$23,404 million (€21.6 billion). However, spend was only predicted to grow by 23 per cent year on year, compared with 43 per cent for the UK and 38 per cent for Germany.
In Belgium, the organised travel market grew by 16.3 per cent in 2023, according to the Belgian Travel Confederation. In terms of the number of outbound trips by Belgium residents, the country was…