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Business travel is back to 90pc of pre-COVID levels

Fiona Carruthers

Corporate travel has rebounded sharply in the past eight months, with the Australian market sitting just shy of 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels, despite flight disruption and rising ticket prices.

Industry leaders report that the Australian experience is currently outstripping the global business travel market. In a downbeat report earlier this month, the Global Business Travel Association predicted that global business travel spending would not recover to its pre-pandemic level of $US1.43 trillion ($2.07 trillion) a year until 2026.

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Fiona Carruthers has written and edited travel for the Financial Review for almost a decade. She has held senior roles with ABC Radio National, Deutsche Welle Radio, TIME and The Australian, and was deputy editor of Traveller. Email Fiona at fcarruthers@afr.com

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