Business travel not seeing same rebound as leisure travel, hotel industry leaders say ✔️ Stratford Management Tokyo Japan

June 23, 2021
Posted by: Stratford Team
Category: Business

ORLANDO, Fla. – Hotel industry experts came together with local leaders in Orlando on Tuesday to discuss the need for business travel to return to Central Florida.

While leisure travel has bounced back from the pandemic, large-scale business meetings and events have not seen the same rebound.

According to a study by Visit Orlando, nationwide business travel is down 85% from pre-pandemic levels and is not expected to fully return until 2024. As of June, group travel in Orlando was 67% lower than levels in 2019.

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Chip Rogers, who is the president and CEO of the American Hotel and Lodging Association, attended Tuesday’s meeting at the Hyatt Regency Orlando.

“Leisure travel alone cannot make our industry survive,” Rogers said. “We have to have this convention center filled. There have to be meetings, there have to be conferences.”