Positive Trajectory Ultimately Hasn’t Peaked for CT100By Elizabeth WestBusiness travel was back on the radar in 2022 for Corporate Travel 100 companies. Among the firms that participated in BTN’s survey and for which, as a result, we have confirmed historic and projected data, 96 percent saw business travel rebound in 2022 from prior-year levels. A precious few reached pre-pandemic levels, but several companies reported eight times their travel spend from 2021, the absolute nadir for the industry due to global travel restrictions implemented during the Covid-19 pandemic.... KEEP READING
The Business Travel News 2023 Corporate Travel 100 is BTN’s effort to identify the 100 companies with the most business travel spend in the United States based on full-year 2022 U.S.-booked air volume. The 2023 list marks a return to BTN’s pre-pandemic methodology, which was modified over the past two years due to industry conditions.
BTN’s executive director of conference content and strategy David Meyer contacted previous and new targets for the 2023 Corporate Travel 100 conducted online surveys and phone interviews to gather the data. The purpose of the in-depth inquiry was to track business travel volume recovery since the pandemic and to identify program management and/or supplier management changes. The full results of the survey are provided to those companies who participate in the interview process.
Certain companies decline the BTN outreach. For companies on the list that chose not to confirm U.S.-booked business air travel volumes, BTN used industry sources, published reports and other intelligence about specific programs to provide an estimate of U.S.-booked air volume. Estimates are noted in the listings.