Hotels Should Expect Business Travel to Rebound First: The Long View This Week
Photo Credit: Business travelers will be the first to come back start booking hotels, predicts Alan Woinski, editor-in-chief of The Daily Lodging Report. Flickr / Robert Couse-Baker
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Antibody testing could defy travel analyst expectations and cause business travel to return before leisure, but the theory hinges on the success of the testing.
The travel industry’s recovery from coronavirus continues to be a guessing game, but one leading industry voice expects business travel to bounce back the quickest.
Social distancing measures and other coronavirus precautions depleted the travel industry over the last month, and many hotel owners have shut down properties due to limited revenue streams. Industry analysts have debated what the economic recovery would look like, from an optimistic V-shaped return to normalcy to a more prolonged
