Bleisure, Wi-Fi, stress: the daily life of the business traveller according to Egencia

On Thursday, at the Business Travel Show, Egencia published its first Business and Technology Travel Study. The aim was to explore some of the new trends in business travel by interviewing a thousand business people in the UK, Germany and France. 
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"Wi-Fi is the business traveller's new breakfast" is how the first Business and Technology Travel Study published by Egencia on 26 February begins. An effective introduction, which has the merit of highlighting the new priorities expressed by business travellers. The TMC reveals that wireless connectivity is twice as popular (67%) as free breakfast (32%) among business travellers.

Another lesson from the study, already mentioned recently in a report published by Bridgestreet The growing importance of bleisure in travel habits. According to the Business and Technology Travel Study, a majority of respondents (54%) mixed business and leisure travel in 2014, by extending their business trips into holidays. This is a trend that should help to improve the daily lives of business travellers, according to whom a business trip is most often associated with stress in 48% of cases and fatigue (41%)...