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Global Business Travel Continues but Confidence Drops Sharply as Conflict, Costs and Complexity Reshape the 2026 Outlook

ByTara Erwin

Global business travel is continuing at a steady pace into 2026, but with significantly more caution, less confidence and moreoperational complexity than at the beginning of the year. Organizations are still pressing forward with trips, spending and meetings, yet are doing so amid escalating conflicts, higher costs and growing disruption. The shift can be seen…

United States Projected to Lose $1.3 Billion in Travel-Related Expenditures in 2017

United States Projected to Lose $1.3 Billion in Travel-Related Expenditures in 2017

Byjcampbell

First, there was Brexit. Next came the Trump Administration’s first travel ban, which cost the United States $185 million in business travel bookings in one week. It was followed by a second travel ban, which like the first, was halted by court orders. After that, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) barred passengers…

Update on the “Travel Ban”
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Update on the “Travel Ban”

Byjcampbell

On March 6, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order called “Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry to the United States.” The White House issued the order largely in response to court challenges made against another Executive Order signed on January 27. As we noted in an earlier blog post, the effective…

Brexit’s Article 50 is Triggered: The Future of Business Travel in Europe is at Stake

Brexit’s Article 50 is Triggered: The Future of Business Travel in Europe is at Stake

Byjcampbell

This afternoon in Brussels, GBTA met various leaders including Mr. Tim Figures, Head of the Competitiveness and Market department as part of the Permanent Representation of the United Kingdom to the European Union on this historical day in the future of Europe. Article 50 has been delivered at approximately 12:30pm Brussels local time today. Last…

Companies Expect Ongoing International Travel Disruption Resulting From Revised Travel Ban
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Companies Expect Ongoing International Travel Disruption Resulting From Revised Travel Ban

Byjcampbell

European Companies Will Plan Significantly Less Meetings & Events in United States The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the voice of the global business travel industry, polled its U.S. and European members this week to assess the business travel impact of President Trump’s revised executive order on travel. Nearly 4 in 10 (37 percent) U.S….

China Solidifies New-Found Position as World’s Largest Business Travel Market

China Solidifies New-Found Position as World’s Largest Business Travel Market

Byjcampbell

On Monday, GBTA held a Gift of Knowledge Workshop in Chengdu focused on measuring the success of managed travel programs. The GBTA Foundation also released its latest business travel forecast for the Chinese market showing China remains one of the fastest growing business travel markets in the world. Total business travel spending is expected to…

Is Election Year Uncertainty Putting U.S. Businesses at Risk?

Is Election Year Uncertainty Putting U.S. Businesses at Risk?

Byjcampbell

Today, the GBTA Foundation released its latest quarterly U.S. business travel forecast, slightly downgrading our expectations from the previous quarter. Uncertainty around the upcoming presidential election is among the factors influencing our more pessimistic outlook for U.S. business travel spending through 2017. Along with the uncertainty surrounding the election, sluggish global expansion, low inflation, weak…

Will the Italian Business Travel Market Take a Roman Holiday?

Will the Italian Business Travel Market Take a Roman Holiday?

Byjcampbell

Of the five European countries included in the most recent GBTA Foundation Western Europe BTI Report – the U.K., France, Germany, Spain and Italy – Italy is the most perplexing. While it, like the other nations, will experience slow and steady growth for 2016 and 2017, it won’t grow at the same rate as neighboring…

United States Business Travel Sees New Normal of Slow But Steady Growth

United States Business Travel Sees New Normal of Slow But Steady Growth

Byjcampbell

Despite being overtaken by China as the world’s leading business travel market, the United States is still a vital nation when it comes to both the growth of the global economy as well as for the growth of global business travel. According to the recently released GBTA Global BTI Outlook – Annual Global Report and…

Germany Continues to be Europe’s Economic Powerhouse

Germany Continues to be Europe’s Economic Powerhouse

Byjcampbell

Germany is the largest economy in Europe, currently the third largest business travel market in the world, is led by one of the most powerful women in the world and has a strong and influential voice on both European and global affairs. Given Germany’s power, wealth and influence, it will continue to be the EU’s…