BUSINESS TRAVEL – AUSTRALIA

Corporate fans boost ticket sales for Open

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Original article by Ayesha de Kretser
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 8 : 10-Jan-24

The organisers of the Australian Open are hoping for another record attendance at the first grand slam tournament of the year, after the 2023 event attracted a total crowd of 839,192. Tennis Australia’s chief commercial officer Cedric Cornelis says that ticket sales to date have been significantly stronger than in 2023. Meanwhile, Corporate Traveller’s MD Tom Walley notes a post-pandemic trend for business travellers to combine their trip with leisure activities such as attending sports events, in order to justify the cost of travel. The company expects the number of business travellers attending the Australian Open to be 21 per cent higher than in 2023.

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AUSTRALIAN OPEN TENNIS, TENNIS AUSTRALIA, CORPORATE TRAVELLER

Delays to business travel likely

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Original article by Hannah Wootton
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 7 : 11-Jan-23

Australia China Business Council president David Olsson does not expect a significant upturn in business travel to China until March. He notes that airline and rail tickets in China are scarce in the lead-up to the Lunar New Year, so many business leaders are not planning to travel to China until February or March. He adds that there a number of challenges in gaining business visas for China, as it is taking longer than usual to process visa applications and China is not yet issuing multiple-visit visas.

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AUSTRALIA CHINA BUSINESS COUNCIL

Who’s making travel and accommodation decisions for business: 810,000 Australians

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 25-Jun-18

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey shows that 810,000 Australians aged 14+ are involved in making decisions that relate to business travel and accommodation in an average 12-month period. The survey, which was carried out via face-to-face interviews in the year to March 2018, also shows that 75.2% of business travel or accommodation decision makers were full time workers, well above their population proportion of 37.9%, while 69.9% had a diploma or degree (population 45.2%). Other over-represented segments among these decision makers were men with 57.9% (population 49.2%), and the A/B socio-economic quintile 50.2% (population 20.0%).

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Business travel down after mining boom

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Original article by Roy Morgan
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 5-Feb-18

A Roy Morgan Single Source shows that 2.2 million Australians aged 14+ travelled by air for business purposes in 2017 (equivalent to 11 per cent of the population); however, this was down 1.3 percentage points since the height of the mining boom in 2010. This might seem a surprise in an economy that has experienced strong economic growth over the past seven years; however, deeper analysis by State reveals that a substantial part of this fall has been concentrated in the mining states of WA (in which 11.6 per cent of the population were business air travellers in 2017 – down 4.1 percentage points since 2010) and Queensland (in which business air travel is down 3.9 percentage points to 10.2 per cent). The prevalence of so-called Fly-In-Fly-Out workers in the mining industry has clearly fallen significantly over the last few years as big mining projects have been completed and the workforce required to maintain operations is invariably lower than required to "kick-start" a new project to begin with.

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ROY MORGAN LIMITED

Airbnb, Flight Centre book travel deal

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Original article by Yolanda Redrup
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 31 : 27-Jun-17

Flight Centre and Airbnb have released details of a new partnership, under which business customers will be able to book Airbnb accommodation through the Flight Centre website. Airbnb executive David Holyoke notes that it is generating a growing proportion of its revenue from business travellers, while Flight Centre’s Andrew Flannery says corporate clients who are staying overseas for extended periods find the idea of living "like a local" appealing.

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FLIGHT CENTRE TRAVEL GROUP LIMITED – ASX FLT, AIRBNB AUSTRALIA PTY LTD, QANTAS AIRWAYS LIMITED – ASX QAN, AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, CARLSON WAGONLIT TRAVEL, BCD TRAVEL, MARRIOTT CORPORATION

And Australia’s busiest business travel destination is…

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Original article by Roy Morgan Research
Market Research Update – Page: Online : 3-May-16

A Roy Morgan Single Source survey has found that 2.1 million Australians aged 14+ reported flying for business purposes on their last domestic flight. The survey also shows that 27.9 per cent of business air-travellers flew to (or within) New South Wales, ahead of Queensland (22.7 per cent) and Victoria (22.3 per cent). The Northern Territory (2.8 per cent) and Tasmania (2.4 per cent) were the least trafficked domestic business destinations.

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ROY MORGAN RESEARCH LIMITED