The Global Business Travel Association conducted
two straw polls of travel managers last week to gauge how President Trump's
executive orders on immigration will affect their companies.
BTN wrote
about GBTA's poll of 58 U.S. travel managers, and now that the association
has released the responses from 68 European travel managers, the results are
worth comparing side by side.
Travel Managers Who Expect a Reduction in Their
Companies' Business Travel
| | | | | Europe | | | | U.S. |
| Over the First 3 Months | | | | 49% | | | | 31% |
| 3 to 6 Months Out | | | | 46% | | | | 29% |
| 6 Months Out & Beyond | | | | 33% | | | | 28% |
Meanwhile, 38 percent of European travel managers say their
companies have directed employees who are nationals of the countries named in Trump's executive order—Iran, Iraq, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen—to cancel or delay travel. More than half, 53 percent, have employees traveling abroad who are or
might be affected. Another 21 percent don't know whether there are employees
traveling abroad who might be affected.
Some respondents reported no effect on business travel,
while one indicated a decline in travelers' desire to go to the U.S. Another
said, "We are considering moving
events to outside of the U.S."
BTN also wrote about an ACTE survey of 250 travel managers
worldwide.