As we close out 2009, the focus for most of us is on the year ahead. In fact, I've heard some industry colleagues say that the best they can report on the year we've just been through is that it is almost over. In the final 2009 edition of
The Wire...from AirPlus, we gauge the attitudes of travel managers in the U.S. and Europe on the future. The most interesting result to me is the fact that the respondents' view of how 2010 will develop seems to depend on how aggressively the company made travel program changes this year.
A
recent article published by the
Associated Press--and picked up by several media outlets--reported that companies are "curtailing travel budgets." While that is no doubt true in many cases, the article is misleading at best.
