Leisure journey to the US is down this 12 months, however enterprise journey to the nation stays steady, based on a report from SAP Concur.
The USA was the highest vacation spot for international enterprise vacationers within the first half of 2025, based on the report.
Some 15% of all enterprise air journey bookings had been to locations within the U.S., it confirmed. That is twice the variety of enterprise bookings to Germany (7.7%) and United Kingdom (7.6%), which ranked second and third, respectively, within the report.
Enterprise journey between Canada and the U.S. additionally held regular, with the U.S. accounting for practically 80% of outbound enterprise journeys made by Canadians, based on the info.
Regardless of crumbling relations between the 2 nations, worldwide enterprise reserving quantity rose barely (0.18%) in Canada within the first half of 2025 from the identical interval final 12 months, it confirmed.
The report confirmed the highest worldwide locations for enterprise vacationers within the first half of 2025 had been:
1. U.S.
2. Germany
3. U.Okay.
4. Canada
5. France
6. Spain
7. Netherlands
8. Mexico
9. China
10. Italy
The report mixed with information from BCD Journey and American Categorical World Enterprise Journey, as reported by Skift Friday, present that the destructive journey sentiment rippling by Canada, Western Europe and a few components of Asia is not affecting these with company pursuits in the US.
“Enterprise journey to the U.S. appears to be enterprise as normal,” stated Charlie Sultan, president of Concur Journey at SAP Concur. “Within the first half of 2025, we noticed a 1% enhance in inbound enterprise journey quantity to the U.S. in comparison with the primary half of 2024.”
This slight enhance is decrease than the two.6% year-on-year rise in international enterprise journey quantity, which dropped from 4.5% within the first quarter to 0.6% within the second quarter, the report confirmed. Nevertheless, the decline — which got here as Trump’s tariff insurance policies continued to rile international economies — comports with regular seasonal journey patterns and is “not stunning,” based on Concur’s report.
“In 2024, we actually began to see enterprise journey come again. Home journeys had been up about 3%, and worldwide journeys grew practically 6% globally,” Sultan advised CNBC Journey. “With that sort of momentum, we anticipated the pattern to proceed into 2025. And to date, that is what we’re seeing.”
A drop in outbound U.S. enterprise journey
Nevertheless, whereas enterprise journey to the U.S. could present few indicators of slowing down, the identical can’t be stated of outbound bookings by American enterprise vacationers.
Worldwide enterprise journey from the U.S. dropped 2.3% 12 months on 12 months within the first half of 2025, based on the report.
The primary quarter noticed a modest year-on-year drop of 1%, adopted by a bigger 3.8% drop within the second quarter, it confirmed.
However once more, that “is in line with seasonal tendencies,” the report stated.
In January, the U.S. Journey Affiliation projected enterprise journey can be “slower than different verticals” in 2025, with spending not anticipated to return to pre-pandemic ranges till after 2028.
Stabilizing airfares
Worldwide airfares for enterprise vacationers held regular within the first half of 2025 regardless of rising demand, with tickets averaging round $1,682, based on SAP Concur.
American enterprise vacationers paid probably the most for worldwide flights, with tickets averaging $2,675, in contrast with $1,950 in Japan and $719 in Italy, the info confirmed.
Airfares between U.S. and Canada additionally returned to 2024 ranges this summer time, based on the report. Common fares fell to $997 within the first quarter, earlier than returning to $1,100 by June, it confirmed.
— CNBC’s Kaela Ling contributed to this report.
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