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Global Business Travel Association Predicts China’s Business Travel Spending to reach $245 billion by 2013
The Global Business Travel Association (“GBTA”), the world’s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization, announces the results of its inaugural GBTA BTI™ Outlook – China, sponsored by Visa Inc. The GBTA BTI™ Outlook – China includes the GBTA Business Travel Index™ (GBTA BTI™). The GBTA BTI™ provides a way to distill market performance and the outlook for business travel into a single metric that can be tracked over time.
Highlights
- Business travel spending in China is forecast to increase by 17 percent in 2012 and 21 percent in 2013, to US$202 billion and US$245 billion respectively
- Growth in international outbound travel spending is expected to be particularly strong, rising by 27 percent in 2013 The Chinese investment in infrastructure is vital as they must have the infrastructure in place to keep up with the explosion in demand. As such, in the past 10 years, the 4 largest airports have doubled in size and there are plans in place for over 100 new hotels in the next decade :