The Majority of Business Travelers Feel Travel Isn’t Offered Equally

In its fifth annual Global Business Travel Survey, SAP Concur analyzes the urgent challenges faced by business travelers and their organizations, including remote work, equal opportunity to travel and duty and care for LGBTQ+ traveler experiences. Key findings from global survey of 3,850 business travelers in 25 markets include:

• Nearly two-thirds of global business travelers feel they haven’t had equal opportunity to travel for business compared to their coworkers — primarily due to their age, accent or gender.

• More than three in 10 remote workers recognize that business travel is critical to forming meaningful connections with coworkers (38%) and building stronger relationships with managers (37%), and say business travel is critical for workplace relationships. Yet, more remote workers feel they haven’t had equal opportunity to take business trips because of where they live or how often they come into the office.

• Global business travelers still say that health and safety is the biggest threat to business travel (44%) — more so than international or local conflicts and tensions (34%), inflation (34%), budget cuts or travel freezes (31%), and remote work and virtual meeting options (28%).

• More than half (54%) of global LGBTQ+ business travelers say the biggest threats to business travel are health and safety concerns, and 45% would decline a business trip due to safety or social concerns for traveling to certain parts of the world.