Business Travelers Should Expect More Expensive Flights and Hotels
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Savings for travel managers in the car rental space will likely be offset by airfare and hotel room rate increases worldwide.
A forecast of next year's travel trends from American Express Global Business Travel suggests that global airfares and hotel rates will rise in 2016, inflating costs for business travelers.
The American Express Global Business Travel Forecast 2016, which compiles 1,800 different pricing predictions from across the travel industry, also finds that ground transportation costs will stay flat globally.
“While we expect modest increases in global travel prices heading into 2016, travel managers are operating in an era of new challenges and evolvin
