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The Countries with the Highest Business Travel Spend in the World
SOURCE: CMW, 3/17

New research has revealed the countries that spend the most on business travel. The top two spots are fairly predictable given the size of the economies in question, but the countries ranking beneath them may surprise some.

The reliability of business travel predictions have been thrown into disarray recently with the war currently waging in the Middle East. Just as Gulf nations like the UAE and Saudi Arabia were growing economically and becoming business travel hubs in their own right, the war between the USA, Israel and Iran has entirely disrupted that trajectory.

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