How Travel Benefits From the Future Decentralized Workplace
Photo Credit: A future workplace away from a central office may accelerate the travel industry's recovery. Piqsels
Skift Take
Hotels and airlines, rejoice: a larger remote workforce in the future will likely usher in an entirely new type of corporate travel.
Travel sectors like the hotel and airline industries grappled over the last year with what the pandemic’s impact on the workplace would be and how that might impact their own revenues.
But there is a growing sentiment across the greater travel industry that companies giving up massive office leases may actually benefit hoteliers and airline operators.
"You will have folks that were not business travels previously now working remotely," said Nina Herold, chief product and operations officer at TripActions, on Wednesday at Skift's Business Travel and Future of Work Summit. "They now will be a business traveler on a monthly or quarterly basis in order to get together with their team to collaborate and make their company or product
