Four Charts on the Cost of Last-Minute Travel Booking
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The amount of data available to travel managers is growing. They just need to know how best to use those numbers to help them make the best choices for their travelers and companies.
When it comes to making travel plans — and especially booking flights — the early bird often gets the deals. But business travelers don't always know months or even weeks in advance that they'll need to hop on a plane.
"Business travel obviously skews far more toward shorter booking windows than leisure travel," said Tim MacDonald, executive vice president of travel for Concur, the travel and expense management company. "In many cases, it's entirely unavoidable as meetings come up at the last minute, deals have to happen, etc."
Concur wanted to know how much those shorter booking windows might be hurting corporatio
