Meetings Still a Target in ’10—but Gaining

The majority of corporate travel buyers expect the recovery to bring a slow but steady increase in meetings and business travel next year. That’s according to the results of a new survey of 180 “direct” (corporate travel buyer) members of the National Business Travel Association conducted in August and September. According to NBTA's 2010 Business Travel Buyers' Cost Forecast, a full 69 percent of the respondents expect to see their business-travel volume “grow slowly” throughout 2010—a huge