Business Travel Resources
Research & Intelligence: Welcome to our Business Travel Management Resources page.
Here you'll find a variety of information to help you plan and manage your company's business travel. Whether you're looking for ways to reduce costs, streamline your booking process or ensure the safety and comfort of your employees on the road, you'll find valuable resources and tips on this page.
From reports and insights to case studies and infographics, our comprehensive collection covers topics such as travel policy development, cost-saving strategies, traveler wellness, sustainability and emerging technologies.
Latest Resources:
Infographic: Traveler safety – Using ground transportation
In this infographic, we share some valuable advice for a safe experience when using ground transportation
Traveler survey: Wellbeing
With this survey we aimed to explore the importance of physical and mental wellbeing for business travelers and look at a variety of support measures that may improve travelers’ lives.
Back to Travel guide
In this time of uncertainty, one thing is true - travel managers are facing more pressure than ever before. Your travel program is in the spotlight and stakeholders are anxious. It’s not just travelers asking questions and seeking reassurance. Your executives are, too.
Ready for take off
With international travel restrictions easing, travellers are ready to reconnect in person. As we move towards recovery and navigate the ever-changing travel landscape together, how can we do so comfortably and confidently?
Research Snapshot: Workplace policies and digital nomads
In the traveler wellbeing survey, we looked at the workplace policies and explored the attitude of travelers and their employers to digital nomads.
Research Snapshot: Traveler stress factors
In a recent Traveler Wellbeing Survey, respondents shared their views on travel stress factors answering the question: “What increases your level of stress before, during and after a business trip?”
Research Snapshot: Wellbeing and bleisure
In 2022, 50% of business travelers are likely to combine business travel with leisure, while a quarter aren’t yet sure.
Research Snapshot: Travel suppliers and wellbeing
We asked business travelers about the services and amenities contributing to their wellbeing on-board an airplane and at a hotel.
Research Snapshot: Wellbeing as a company priority
While 9 in 10 survey respondents consider employee wellbeing as a company priority, business traveler wellbeing raises questions.
Research Snapshot: Traveler wellbeing support
Employers play a big role in supporting wellbeing of traveling employees via travel policies and dedicated wellbeing measures.
Research Snapshot: Wellbeing support tools
Business travelers may use various tools to support their physical and mental well-being, mobile apps being among them. The tools need to be convenient, helpful and assure confidentiality.
Navigating a safe return to travel
As countries carefully lift travel restrictions, travelers are ready to reconnect in person. Travel managers now face the challenge to reboot their travel program with a renewed focus on traveler health and safety.
Business Travel Trends for 2022
The last two years have also been a time for reflection, leading to a refocus on new priorities for the future. What does this refocus mean for travel? We’ve identified a short list of trends, which we think will come to resonate with both travel managers and travelers during 2022.
FUNKE Media Group selects BCD Travel to modernize its corporate travel program
Read how FUNKE Media Group selected BCD as their new global TMC for its digital and innovative solutions and services to help drive savings, data insights and traveler satisfaction & engagement. (EN & DE)
Report: 5G and Flight Disruption
Plans by telecommunications companies AT&T and Verizon to roll out new 5G mobile services across the U.S. has caused concern in the aviation and travel industry, even though 5G has already been rolled out in Europe and Asia. This new report considers the issues surrounding 5G deployment in the U.S.
Webinar – International trains are on the right track
International train travel is on the right track when it comes to a green and sustainable alternative mode of transportation. During this online event, we talked about the future of international train travel for business travelers.
Report: COVID-19: Omicron and travel restrictions
From late November 2021, countries around the world started to reimpose travel restrictions in response to rapidly emerging concerns about the Omicron variant of COVID-19, which the World Health Organization (WHO) has classified as a variant of concern.
Research Snapshot: Total Trip Cost: Adoption and calculation
Most travel buyers don’t currently track Total Trip Cost (TTC) but would like to do this in the future.
Webinar – Keeping your travelers safe with BCD Alert
Keeping travelers safe is a 24/7 job. To help travel and security managers deal with this daunting responsibility, BCD Travel launched BCD Alert. Our newly released mobile app allows you to keep your travelers safe and informed. Anytime. Anywhere.
Surview: Payment & Expense: Travel Buyers Speak
With this survey we aimed to explore the role of Payment & Expense in a travel program looking at the current pain points and future trends.
Vaccinations and easing travel restrictions
While they have yet to become a mandatory condition of travel, a traveler’s vaccination status is increasingly being used to determine which travel restrictions they are subject to and which services and amenities they can access at their destination.
Research Snapshot: Finance as Payment & Expense stakeholder
Finance is the most influential Payment & Expense stakeholder in business travel, followed by Travel Management and Procurement.
Research Snapshot: Payment and Expense priorities
Processes simplification is the top payment and expense priority reported by travel buyers.
Research Snapshot: Travel policy post-pandemic
Travel buyers and travelers have different views about what policy options are essential to travel post-pandemic.