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Lockdown to delay business travel recovery

Business
Rob Gill
8 January 2021

The latest lockdowns across the UK are likely to further delay any real recovery in business travel until late 2021.

Clive Wratten, chief executive of the Business Travel Association (BTA)

Clive Wratten, chief executive of the Business Travel Association (BTA), told the Elman Wall webinar that bookings for its members remained 90% down year-on-year.

“We’ve not seen any change in two months,” he added. “Our members have had no cash coming through the till potentially for 18 months. Business travel has consistently been down by 90%.

“Because of lockdown 3.0, the indications are that the restart we were hoping for in Q3 has been pushed back another quarter. But it’s early days and the vaccine could change things.