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Corporate travel spending is forecasted to exceed pre-pandemic levels

Oct 11, 2024
But that doesn't mean everything has completely caught up, analysts say.
Leisure travel has long-since recovered to pre-pandemic levels, but business travel is taking much longer to catch up.
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Hot travel destinations this holiday weekend? Cities

May 26, 2023
AAA projects a 7% increase in Americans traveling 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend compared to last year.
Above, visitors near the Las Vegas Strip in August 2020. While the pandemic gutted Vegas' local economy, tourism has roared back.
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Leisure travel is back. Business travel is not.

Apr 25, 2023
It isn't as lucrative for airlines to fly planes full of leisure travelers. They need higher-spending business travelers to juice profits.
While leisure travel is booming, revenue from business travel is still down more than 25% since the start of the pandemic.
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