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29% -- expected business travel decline for global travel buyers (2025)

2025  · n=900  · Global Business Travel Association (GBTA)

29% of global travel buyers expected a decline in business travel volume at their companies in 2025 due to US travel and tariff policies.

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29%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2025
Entity
global travel buyers
Sample Size
900
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61/100 confidence

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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) Primary Tier B
https://webnewsreporters.com/safer-to-stay-home-european-firms-rethink-travel-policy-over-u-s-border… ↗
Confidence: 59/100 Vintage: 2025 Channel: Deep Crawl
Source Article
Safer to stay home? European firms rethink travel policy over U.S. border control concerns - Australian Bloggers
U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Newark Liberty International Airport. Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images Some European companies are growing wary about sending their employees to the U.S. It comes amid volatile policymaking by the Trump administration, more stringent immigration checks…
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Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) · Original study ↗

GBTA survey of global travel buyers conducted in April 2025

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global travel buyers: 29% expected business travel decline. Source: Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) (2025). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/gbta-travel-buyers-decline-2025
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