Emerging Cities Pose Biz Travel Challenge for Chinese Executives
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China is expected to remain a hotbed of both domestic and international business travel. Chinese corporations are attempting to keep costs down even as the need for business travel increases.
The Chinese business travel market has become the biggest in the world in recent years and stands to continue its growth as the country's secondary and tertiary cities become better connected to the rest of China.
Cities like Zhengzhou, Chongqing, and Chengdu are experiencing greater business growth than established cities like Beijing and Shanghai, according to the Global Business Travel Association, and companies are working to keep costs down even as the need to visit these destinations increases.
CITS American Express Global Business Travel and the Economist Intelligence Unit polled executives from more than 100 Chinese companies on the state of business tr
