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Survey: policy restrictions, biz travel spending rising.

Publication: Business Travel News
Publication Date: 07-FEB-05 		Format: Online - approximately 893 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
Consistent corporate pressure to control costs during the past few years has provided an environment in which travel managers have been able to tighten travel policy and business travelers generally have complied, as demonstrated by the results of a survey released by Carlson Wagonlit Travel late last month.

With 54 percent of travel managers reporting that their corporate travel policies have grown more restrictive over the past three years, 70 percent of both travelers and travel managers said travelers are very familiar with policy. As the industry embarks on a period of recovery, 34 percent of traveler respondents said they anticipate traveling more in 2005, and 60 percent of travel managers expect corporate travel spend to increase in the year ahead. With business travel spending on the rise, policy enforcement now poses an...

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