Most Executives Have No Personal Travel Provider, With 63% of Respondents Indicating No Preference, According to a New Study on ASDReports

Friday 29 August 2014, Amsterdam

Join the Jetsetters with Changing Trends in Business Travel Booking, the one-of-a-kind research report now available on ASDReports, providing an extensive analysis of executive’s opinions on the relevance of travel search options, and identifies key factors affecting the selection of airlines and car rental operators for business travel. The report also examines companies’ approaches to business travel booking, and identifies executives’ responses when business travel is combined with leisure.


The difference:

• Off the beaten track: Examining reasons, other than lower ticket prices, that are
  
• Good news travels fast: Identifying key factors, other than lower rental costs, that are most likely to make business travelers choose one car rental company over another.
• Down to business: Assessing the importance of travel meta-search options for creating business travel plans, and identifies popular travel meta-search websites used by business travelers in the last six months.
  

 
Additional report highlights:

Free on-demand digital entertainment offerings have least impact on airline selection

Survey results reveal that 59%, 41% and 40% of executives consider ‘more comfortable seating’, ‘free baggage check’ and ‘good communication with airlines for pre-flight check-ins, flight updates via text message, etc.’ respectively as the most influencing factors for airline selection.

Additionally, 21% and 17% of respondents indicated ‘ability to select seatmates prior to the flight’ and ‘free on-demand digital entertainment offerings’ respectively as factors with minimal impact on airline selection decisions. 9% of respondents highlighted that they do not travel for business by air.

Most respondents spend less than two days on leisure when extending a business trip. According to survey results, 42% of executives have extended business trip with 0–2 additional days for leisure. Moreover, 15% of respondents indicated that they have not extended a business trip. Analysis of responses by region indicates that the highest percentage of executives operating in North America and Europe have spent less than 2 days for leisure when extending a business trip. Additionally, 31% of respondents with operations in Asia-Pacific noted the number of extra days spend for leisure at 0–2, while 33% of executives operating in the Rest of the World identified the number of additional leisure days at 2–4.