The Blurring of Personal and Professional Lives of Travelers


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The boundary between professional and private worlds is increasingly blurred due to digital devices, and that has profound effects on the traditionally defined silos between managed and unmanaged travel worlds. And these changes differ from culture to culture.
The blurring of business and leisure travel is a trend we have been covering on Skift from the start, where we have tracked the rise of “rogue” business travelers finding their way outside the corporate walls. Business travelers are increasingly rebelling against their stodgy corporate booking tools and want to access the deals and tools that are readily available to them when they travel for leisure. A new survey by Pullman Hotels and conducted by IPSOS looks at the "blurring" from a slightly different but compleme