The Cost of Uncertainty — Skift Corporate Travel Innovation Report
Photo Credit: The Global Business Travel Association is forecasting a $1.3 billion hit to travel spending in the U.S. this year as a result of policies that have stirred up fresh uncertainty. This photo shows a quiet moment at San Francisco International Airport. Flickr / Jason Adam van Beemen
Skift Take
Travel industry advocates have been asking the new U.S. administration to send a welcoming message to the world's travelers for months now. They're still waiting, and worrying about the impact of policies that seem more likely to discourage visitors.
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.
One of the big questions the travel industry (and Skift) have been grappling with this year surrounds U.S. policies under the Trump administration and their potential impact on travel.
Starting with the first executive order banning travel from several Muslim-majority countries back in January, the travel industry hasn't had much respite from surprise decisions. A second travel ban — now paused — followed after the first was tied up in court. And then the U.S. declared that travelers entering the country from several Middle Eastern and African countries could not bring large electronics in the cabin. Whether that so-called laptop ban will be ex
