Business Traveller

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As I observe the business travel industry from the neutral perspective of an independent consultant, I cannot help but notice a glaring contradiction and an ensuing divergence of direction at the heart of it: a path of rapid postpandemic growth pursued by suppliers versus the much more cautious route of those that advocate environmental targets.

Travel management companies, hotel chains and airlines declare that business travel is a burgeoning force for good and while

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