Uncertainty Remains for Corporate Travel in 2017 — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Corporate travel faces challenges from global instability, but the core fundamentals driving business travel remain strong. Here, business travelers in the UK queue at an airport. Global Business Travel Association / GBTA
Skift Take
Following a year of consolidation, corporate travel experts are expecting more of the same. At the same time, global concerns have the potential to undermine the demand for business travel after years of growth.
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
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THE FUTURE OF CORPORATE + BUSINESS TRAVEL
It's a new year, and corporate travel experts are expecting more consolidation in an industry that saw a surprising amount of change in 2016.
The effects of the Marriott-Starwood merger, along with Concur's acquisition of Hipmunk, may not be felt immediately by the industry at large.
But the uncertainty caused by global events, especially terrorism and isolationist political policies, post a more immediate concern.
"There wasn’t a single event so much as a general sense of uncertainty that filtered into the world of co
