Dining Gets More Expensive for Business Travelers
Photo Credit: Diners in a San Francisco restaurant. Flickr / Steve McClanahan
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Meals and hotel stays are becoming a bigger cost for business travelers. Airfares have dropped, although this doesn't help companies that dispatch their workers in cars for meetings in nearby cities.
The past five years have seen ride hailing apps completely disrupt traditional taxis and car services for business travelers. Dining, however, is not only the most common expense for travelers but one that is eating into a larger chunk of corporate budgets.
Expense technology provider Certify examined more than 50 million expenses on its platform and $3.3 billion in spend for a look at how business travelers spent money in 2018.
What they found is an uptick in spending on dining, along with Uber's continued growth across the world. The average meal expense is now $5 mor
