With a view to better understanding the effect of the Covid-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak on business travel, the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has conducted a poll amongst its membership of 9,000-plus business travel professionals from every continent. GBTA is the world’s largest professional association representing the US$1.4 trillion business travel industry.
Collectively, GBTA’s members directly control more than US$345 billion of global business travel and meetings expenditures annually, and more than 1,155 member companies throughout the world responded to the poll.
The breakdown of respondents was:
- Travel manager / buyer: 46%
- Procurement/sourcing professional: 7%
- Supplier: 32%
- Travel management companies (TMCs): 9%
- Other: 6%
Breakdown of staff employed at their companies, including all plants, divisions, branches and subsidiaries:
- 1-500: 25%
- 501-1,000: 7%
- 1,001-5,000: 20%
- 5,001-10,000: 10%
- 10,001-25,000: 14%
- 25,001-75,000: 9%
- 75,001 or more: 12%
And the big question: When do you expect your business travellers to resume regular travel? Do you expect travel to resume within the next…
- 3 months: 40%
- 6 months: 17%
- 8 months: 2%
- 12 months: 1%
- More than 12 months: 0%
- Unsure: 40%