Business Travel Tips

According to the annual Barclaycard Business Travel Survey, business travelers will travel further distances for longer periods of time.

The business travel industry will see the increase of long distance travel and the decline of shorter journeys.
Below a few figures excerpted from the Barclaycard study.

- Distance travelled per week will increase to approximately 700 miles per person, compared to 609 miles currently.

- Business traveler will on average spend an extra night away from home each month, up from 4.1 nights in 2005/6 to 5.2 nights in 2015.

- Air travel: the number of flights taken per business traveler will increase by 12% from 7.6 flights per year in 2005/6 to 8.5 flights in 2015.

- Rail travel: business travelers regularly using trains are predicted to decrease from 34% in 2005/6 to 25% in 2015.

- Among the services predicted to increase are:
Preference for electronic check in procedures 2005 - 23% 2015 - 90%
Preference for online booking 2005 - 37% 2015 - 70%
Business class air travel 2005 - 25% 2015 - 33%
Premium class rail travel 2005 - 22% 2015 - 25%

The tenth annual Barclaycard Business Travel Survey questioned 2,500 respondents (CEOs, company directors, managers and executives), about all aspects of business travel from airlines and hotels to online bookings.
It was conducted in October 2005, among a UK sample of Barclaycard Business’ 565,000 commercial card holders. ( source )