How Pandemic Changed Business Travel
The pandemic outbreak caught everyone off guard and prompted countries, economies, and sectors to respond fast to its effects. Organizations across all industries are now learning to coexist with the Coronavirus while devising innovative ways to deal with its consequences.
The outbreak demonstrated to companies and employees that getting things done no longer needs a centralized location, a specific workstation, or a 2-hour commute – work can be done anywhere. Companies have realized that in whatever they do, they must consider ‘Remote-work-first’ or ‘Work-from-home-first.’
As a result, in the future of meeting management, office spaces will be less concerned with hosting the complete organization and more concerned with creating a hub for cooperation.
Although it is difficult to foresee the near or far future of meeting management, we believe that the basic office and workplace have changed and will continue to change. Right now, the workplace is governed by a spirit of reuniting, which will affect and drive innovation.
But what will the future look like after the ‘new normal’ has settled? How will future work affect business travel?
Trends in business travel have been evolving.
Trends like “Bleisure – Travel”, “Workcations” are redefining business travel, this helps to keep the travel industry alive while waiting for full-scale business travel to return.
According to the American Hotel & Lodging Association’s 2022 State of the Hotel Industry Report, 89% of worldwide business travelers wished to add a private vacation to their work visits in the coming year.
People began to regret the unrestricted lifestyle after working from home continually; the epidemic has shown how much we take travel and movement for granted, and how much we appreciate it when it is taken away. Many company executives have embraced the bleisure-travel and workcations idea, which allows people to work and vacation at the same time.
Because of the “Great Untethering,” business-traveling workers are more inclined to combine work, enjoyment, and travel. As a result, business travels will be increasingly frequently mixed with workcation days, in which employees have more pleasure on business trips and prolong such trips for days that combine work and tourism.
With the huge success of these travel trends, a few companies such as Nextretreat and Troop have started planning Bleisure travel for the business employees. These companies are an easy way of organizing team travel, saving time and money. These companies are travel technology company that develops travel solutions for business companies.