Survey: Business Travel in Europe Was Mostly Unaffected By the Paris Attacks


Tourists in the lobby of Paris' Louvre Museum.

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The polls show that business travel buyers reacted sensibly after the attacks in Paris by communicating with travelers and bulking up their security plans rather than calling off trips altogether.
Most businesses in the United States and Europe did not change European travel plans  following the November terrorist attacks in Paris, new polls show. With its European partners, the Global Business Travel Association asked business travel buyers in the United States and Europe how their companies' travel plans had been affected by the Nov. 13 massacres that killed 130 people. In the U.S., 81 percent of travel buyers said their company made no changes wh