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Global business travel trends are always changing and 2025 is turning out to be a particularly exciting and interesting year for this sector. In 2024, we saw 80% of companies increase their travel spend, surpassing pre-pandemic numbers for the first time. Two thirds of companies are predicting an even greater increase in 2025.
As we finish the first quarter of 2025, there’s already a strong tragectory proving predictions to be true. As business travel spend increases, we are getting a bigger picture of what companies, travel managers, and business travelers care about most this year. On the one hand, there’s an increasing interest in technological advancement, particularly around AI’s ability to automate and personalize travel better than ever before. On the other hand, companies are becoming more impact on the social impacts of travel with increasing awareness towards sustainability and mental health and wellbeing.
In this article, we take a deep dive into the global business travel trends of 2025, showcasing what clients want (or expect) right now, and examining how these trends are shaping the future of corporate travel.
Technology is at the heart of global business travel trends and developments in 2025, centered around problem-solving everything from efficiency to wellbeing. Integrative tools like the automization of expense reporting to itinerary management apps are now more commonly used among companies, making responsibility of managing business travel much lighter. Anything to reduce time spent staring at spreadsheets with a perplexed expression!
Meanwhile, other technologies on the rise in the business travel space are moving to improve the productivity and enjoyment of trips. This travel trend parallels the sweeping reconceptualization of business travel, which places greater emphasis on the ‘travel’ part, as we move away from traditional concepts of suits and boardrooms. Here’s the two tech developments spearheading this movement:
Business travel platforms are implementing AI-powered travel assistance that can be used in every step of business travel from initial planning to the trip itself. Through an AI-integrated business travel platform, trip planners benefit from itinerary curation, booking management, and trip member management, saving them the near-impossible task of organizing a smooth trip that suits all travelers. Meanwhile, the powers of AI personal assistance can be used to guide, inform, and advise travelers during their business trip, reducing space for problems to arise.
Business travel platforms have taken a big leap towards travel perosnalization in 2025 using AI integrated-search engines. Instead of offering destination recommendations based on overall ratings and general popularity, they consider your company’s unique needs, brand personality, budget, and more to provide more suitable recommendations. As a result, companies are stepping away from the cookie-cutter business travel formula and reimagining it according to their ideals.
Tripsby for Business is leading the business travel management sector with an unparalleled AI technology that makes planning, booking, and managing trips easier than ever. The easily navigable platform utilizes its AI technology with personalized trip planning, on-demand assistance, collective booking, and much more.
The post-pandemic price surge for hotels and flights is thankfully now stabalizing, but its sharge increase has left many companies stung. In a late-2024 survey of U.S. small and midsize enterprises (SMEs), 63% identified rising travel costs as their biggest pain point in managing business travel. Therefore, the question is: how do we cut business travel costs without affecting our trip’s success? Many SMEs have found an answer to this with several effective strategies that are being implemented more readily in 2025, but business travel management is most effective of all.
Although a DIY travel plan might seem cheaper on the face of it, travel management solutions are often more cost-effective, primarily because they allow you to plan the highest-possible quality trip within a fixed budget. To do this, it finds the best deals, cuts corners where possible, and implements spend caps on expenses. Although compromise is an essential element of travel management, the goal is to minimise it. Whether hiring a human agent or utilizing the intelligent capibilities of AI, a travel manager will do a much better job of finding deals and noticing redundant expenses than most companies without a dedicated department.
You don’t have to tell Tripsby.ai for Business to save you money, it’s already trained to do so, starting the moment you begin trip planning. The budget-conscious platform scours the internet to ensure its search results reflect the best available prices for your trip needs and then creates a curated personal itinerary that maximises trip potential without blowing the budget. To ensure all the cost-saving strategies aren’t blown out the water when your employee decides to buy the whole bar a round of whisky, Tripsby.ai manages expenses with spend caps and expense notifications.
Businesses have slowly trended towards embracing sustainability practices over the years and in 2025, it’s becoming more imperative than ever, particularly in business travel. In fact, many European firms now mandate or incentivize lower-carbon options, a concept that is slowly but surely catching wind in the US. Around one-third of travel managers globally plan to increase investment in “planet-friendly” travel practices this year. This includes offsetting emissions, opting for greener transport options, and filtering hotels, meeting spaces, and more through their eco-conscious status, made possible through corporate carbon reporting.
To push their green status and incentivise eco-travel, companies are now adding ‘green initiatives’ to their travel policies, encouraging them to set and reach goals for each business trip. However, there’s often a price for environmentalism which is creating a barrier for those on a tighter budget. Still, the trajectory is clear: sustainability is now a core consideration in travel planning. In 2025, we can expect more green travel policies, including carbon budgets for trips, incentives for low-emission transport, and continued innovation to make sustainable choices easier and more cost-effective.
Through Tripsby.ai for Business’ search engine filters and personalization features, companies can create eco-conscious travel itineraries. If you ask it to, Tripsby,ai can find the most fuel-efficient transport options and the best green-certified hotels and restaurants without compromising on budget. If you have a strict green travel policy to comply with, share it with Tripsby.ai and it will provide a fully policy compliant trip itinerary. Traveling sustainably has never been simpler or more cost-effective thanks to Tripsby.ai for Business.
Business travel is no longer a get in, get it done, and get out, kind of deal. Now, business travelers are making lemonade out of lemons by combining a business trip with leisure travel, creating a balanced bleisure combo. In fact, over two-thirds of business travelers are extending their trips to include some personal travel time.
The rise in bleisure travel is coinciding with the rise of Millenial and Gen-Z workers who are ‘unsubscribing’ from the workaholic hustle culture instilled in previous generations. With over half of employees accross these generations more inclined to work for companies offering bleisure travel options, it’s clear they demand balance, and companies are listening.
In 2025, companies are encouraging employees to extend their trips and some have rewritten travel policies to include ‘personal time’ during work trips. Some might carve out an afternoon or evening out of the work schedule to explore their destination, while others might extend the trip for a mini post-work vacation.
With a passion for redefining business travel as a personally and professionally rewarding experience, bleisure travel is a core element of Tripsby.ai for Business. The platform provides everal exceptional and unique features that allow travel managers to make blseisure travel planning simple and cost-effective for the company, and pleasurable for the employee. The Tripsby Travel Guide builds in local experiences and downtime activities alongside meeting schedules into a personalized trip itinerary for each traveler. This is easily manageable for the travel planners who can automize budget and expense management and allow multiple trip members access the trip’s account.
The rise in tech, sustainability, and bleisure-style business travel coincides with a distinct evolution of traveler expectations. As wealth is growing and the world is advancing in so many ways, travelers, both business and leisure, have learned to understand everything from planning and organization tools to travel experiences can always be improved. They want to book travel as easily as hailing a rideshare, get personalized recommendations like they do on Netflix, and have travel arrangements that feel tailored, not one-size-fits-all. As a result, they are demanding better functionality, flexibility, and most notably, personalization.
Meeting these expectations is really important for companies to ensure their trips are successful and to ensure employees are satisfied. Whether or not the chicken or the egg came first, the business travel sector is evolving alongside these growing traveler expectations with new business travel platforms, apps, and on-demand support.
Tripsby.ai for Business encourages companies to expect more from travel if they don’t already. Our whole ethos is about effortlessly making business trips more exceptional. Therefore, we have raised the bar on all aspects of travel from the planning and booking stages to the trip itself. This is done firstly by taking each company’s and traveler’s preferences into account and creating a bespoke itinerary reflecting them. Then, we help travel managers automize the booking and trip management process with tools like the collective booking system and user control mode. Finally, we ensure that our travelers needs are met every moment of the trip through our real-time Travel Guide and Travel Concierge.
While most travel trends in 2025 revolve around making travel easier and more efficient, this one is all about the recent increased awareness for social responsibility in business travel. In 2025, the duty of care and enhanced safety protocols continue to become an increased consideration when travel planning. In fact, around 40% of companies currently prioritize health and safety over cost efficiency and advanced technology. This is a direct knock-on effect of the pandemic where companies found themselves drastically underprepared to deal with crises abroad. Although the threat of Covid-19 has currently subsided, global trends in geopolitical tensions, natural disasters, and other health outbreaks are still a threat to business travelers.
This trends towards enhanced care and safety has resulted in companies adding safety guidelines and traveler support to their travel policies. This can include pre-trip briefings on destination risks, required travel insurance, and protocols for high-risk locations. It also places more emphasis on mental health and wellbeing while traveling, encouraging reasonable itinerary schedules that allow travelers time to get proper rest and regular breaks. A factor that has greatly influenced the increased adoption of bleisure travel.
Tripsby.ai for Business takes duty of care as seriously as it takes finding fun meeting locations. When companies share their safety protocols and travel policies, Tripsby.ai will create travel plans that aligns with their specific health and safety requirements. For example, it will automatically schedule the required amount of off-duty hours and might even add wellness-related off-duty acitivies without busting the budget.
Furthermore, its real-time virtual assistance can support and aid travelers during a trip whether they need help dealing with adverse weather or a last-minute change in flight schedules. This gives companies peace of mind that their employees feel safe and cared for when traveling.
Successful business travel is dependant upon listening and responding to industry trends and client preferences. An easy way to ensure you’re getting ahead of the curve and providing the best possible business travel opportunities is by adopting Tripsby.ai for Business. The all-in-one travel management platform provides the top technological and social features you need to create and manage winning business trips that exceed expectations.
