One scenario is what Mr. Calhoun suggested: Companies could dramatically reduce whole categories of travel, such as in-person meetings with internal colleagues in other cities. Bill Gates predicted at DealBook’s conference last fall that business travel would still be more than 50 percent lower once things normalized. In contrast with domestic leisure travel, which has largely recovered, business travel has been relatively slow in coming back. Rising coronavirus cases in recent weeks could delay the recovery of business travel further. “The thing that we describe as business travel may actually grow in the future years,” said Lindsay Nelson, chief experience and brand officer at Tripadvisor, the online travel company.

Source: New York Times July 31, 2021 12:00 UTC