No Time for Bleisure — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Business travelers say they don't add leisure to work trips because they don't have the time. Pictured here is Denver, a popular destination for business and leisure. Flickr / Ken Lane
Skift Take
Business travelers have a lot of guidelines to follow when they're on the road. Smart employers — and travel companies — listen to feedback and try to deliver what road warriors are asking for.
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.
Business traveler wants — not just needs — figure into many of the stories in today's newsletter. We think it's good to occasionally take a view beyond policy, employer responsibility, and cost savings to consider how road warriors feel about their travels.
One study that struck us was about the awkwardly named (but popular to discuss) bleisure trend. More than a third of those who responded to a survey of North Americans said they had extended a business trip to add a vacation element. But of those that didn't mix business and leisure on the road, nearly 60 percent said it was because they just didn't have time. Nearly 20 percent said they
