- July 7, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Corporate leaders are bullish about the return of at least some business travel over the coming years, and nearly half even expect travel to spring back to greater than pre-pandemic levels, according to a new AirPlus International survey.
The Lufthansa-owned corporate payments provider in June polled 743 corporate board members and executives in its home country of Germany, as well as the U.S., U.K., China, Italy and France, about their organizations’ plans for resuming travel after the Covid-19 pandemic.
The results indicate that travel for meetings with customers and suppliers likely will remain a priority post-pandemic, while travel for internal company meetings has been de-emphasized.
Eighty percent of survey respondents expressed a belief that personal contact with outside parties, such as customers and suppliers, remains essential for corporate operations—a percentage unchanged from the previous AirPlus survey, which was conducted prior to…
