What a Travel Ban Means for Business Travel — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Protestors took to airports in late January to demonstrate against the Trump administration's ban on travel from seven Muslim-majority countries. Immediately after the order, companies said they expected to curtail business travel as a result. Flickr / Beverly Yuen Thompson
Skift Take
If the past few weeks have shown us anything, it's that uncertainty did not end with the U.S. presidential election. Now, with a controversial travel ban tied up in court, companies are considering a reduction in business travel.
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 CORPORATEÂ +Â BUSINESS TRAVEL
Business travel in the U.S. had a tough 2016, for reasons that included the long and nasty presidential election and economic uncertainty around the globe. But after an anticipated spending decline last year, the trend was expected to be positive in 2017.
We'll see if that holds up.
In the wake of President Donald Trump's executive order banning travelers from seven Muslim-majority countries, surveys have shown that companies both in the United States and elsewhere in the world are planning to rein in business travel. Concerns range from uncertainty about whetherÂ
