The Innovators of Extended Stay — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: Traditional hotel rooms are not always the best choice for business travelers; extended stay properties are evolving to meet the needs of modern customers and homesharing companies are working to appeal to road warriors. The lobby of a Residence Inn in Vancouver, B.C. is shown in this photo. Flickr / Rick Schwartz
Skift Take
As extended stay properties and homesharing companies seek to expand their markets, will more business travelers opt for the comfort of home-like amenities?
The Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report is our weekly newsletter focused on the future of corporate travel, the big fault lines of disruption for travel managers and buyers, the innovations emerging from the sector, and the changing business traveler habits that are upending how corporate travel is packaged, bought, and sold.
This week we found another reminder of the way that corporate travel is lagging behind leisure. A new study from the Global Business Travel Association shows that just 17 percent of travel policies allow travelers to use homesharing services such as Airbnb.
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According to an earlier study, far more travelers — 37 percent — thought they were allowed to opt for homesharing. That discrepancy suggests business travelers might be breaking thei
