Leisure travel to the U.S. is down, but business bookings are up
According to a report of SAP Concur, his free time trip to the United States has fallen this year, but his travel to the country is stable.
According to the report, the United States was the best target for global business travelers in the first half of 2025.
Approximately 15% of all Business Air Travel reservations had destinations in the US. This is twice the book reservations for Germany (7.7%), which ranks second and third in the report, respectively, and the United Kingdom (7.6%).
According to the data, the business trip between Canada and the United States remained constant and accounts for about 80% of the US Canadians.
Despite the crumbled relations between the two countries, the volume of international business reservation in Canada gently (0.18%) rose in the first half of 2025 in the first half of the last year.
In the report, the best international destinations for business travelers in the first half of 2025 were:
1.
2. Germany
3. England
4. Canada
5. France
6. Spain
7. Netherlands
8. Mexico
9. China
10. Italy
The report is with the data received from BCD Travel and American Express Global Business Travel, As reported by Skift FridayShow that negative travel feelings fluctuating in Canada, Western Europe and some parts of Asia do not affect institutional interests in the United States.
“Business travel to the United States seems to be a business as usual,” he said. “In the first half of 2025, we saw a 1% increase in the volume of business travel to the US compared to the first half of 2024.”
In the report, this slight increase is less than an annual increase in global business travel volume, which decreased from 4.5% to 0.6% in the first quarter. However, according to Concur’s report, Trump’s tariff policies continue to break the global economies, the decline is united with normal seasonal travel patterns and “not surprising”.
“We really began to see that business trip was returned in 2024. In 2024, domestic trips increased by about 3% and international trips grew globally.” “We waited for the tendency to continue with this kind of acceleration. And that’s what we’ve ever seen.”
A decline in the US business trip
However, while business travel may show several slowdowns to the US, the same cannot be said for reservations made by American business travelers.
According to the report, international business travel from the United States fell 2.3% annually in the first half of 2025.
The first quarter saw a modest decrease of 1% annually and saw a 3.8% decrease in the second quarter.
But still, “Consistent with seasonal tendencies,” he said.
In January, the US Travel Union will be “slower than other sectors” in 2025 It is not expected to return to pandemic levels until after 2028.
Stabilized flight tickets
According to SAP Concur, despite increasing demand, it remained constant in the first half of 2025 in the first half of 2025 despite increasing demand.
American business travelers paid the most for international flights and with average tickets of $ 2,675 compared to $ 1,950 in Japan and $ 719 in Italy.
According to the report, the aircraft between the United States and Canada also returned to 2024 levels this summer. The average fees fell to $ 997 in the first quarter before returning to $ 1,100 until June.
– Kaela Ling from CNBC contributed to this report.
