7th Annual Global Business Travel Research Report
Insights from 5,000 Voices: Travelers, Travel Managers, and CFOs (new this year)
Now in its seventh year, the Global Business Travel Survey—conducted in partnership with Wakefield Research—offers a comprehensive look at the trends, challenges, and perceptions shaping business travel today.
This year’s survey captures insights from over 5,000 travel stakeholders across 29 countries, including:
• 3,750 business travelers
• 700 travel managers
• 600 CFOs — included for the first time in 2025
These diverse perspectives provide a 360-degree v...
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CFO Insights: Finance moves to the center of digital risk
How finance leaders are navigating cybersecurity, AI ROI, data quality, and talent gaps in 2026
Finance leaders are facing a pivotal shift. Cybersecurity has overtaken economic uncertainty as the top external risk for CFOs, while AI adoption accelerates faster than organizations can prove return on investment. At the same time, poor data quality and growing skills gaps are undermining cost control, growth ambitions, and trust in financial insight.
This CFO Insights research report explores how the CFO role is evolving—and the concrete acti...
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The Finance Leader's Guide to AI-driven T&E
The Finance Leader's Guide to AI-driven T&E
Travel and expense (T&E) has become a real-time driver of business activity, yet many finance teams still rely on systems built for after-the-fact reporting. These legacy approaches leave organizations reacting to spend issues instead of shaping them as they happen. Fragmented data across disconnected tools limits visibility, manual processes slow operations, and delayed insights make it difficult to forecast accurately, enforce policy, or manage risk effectively.
Forward-looking finance leaders ...
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Strategies for CFOs to Navigate Tariffs and Global Disruptions
In today’s landscape, the phrase “unprecedented times” has become a cliché, yet the reality remains: the World Uncertainty Index has been steadily rising since 1990. Recent global events—such as COVID-19, the Ukraine war, inflation, and tariffs—have left CFOs grappling with heightened uncertainty about the impact of external pressures on their organizations.
Many executives describe this era as “the end of predictability,” where established trends give way to sudden disruptions in an increasingly complex environment. Alarmingly, two in five...
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8 Questions to Ask About the Impact of AI on Business Travel
Wondering When Robots Will Take Over Your Job?
Relax—AI isn't here to replace you; it’s here to help you. AI is set to transform our lives, both personally and professionally, in remarkable ways.
One thing many of us can relate to is that it’s difficult to find clear facts about AI. However, one thing is certain: AI has the potential to make business travel easier, faster, safer, more cost-effective, compliant, and sustainable.
In fact, based on our latest 6th Annual Global Business Travelers Research Report, 95% of business travelers are...
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