Business travel to see stable increase

Thursday, 16 February 2012 19:48

Volume of business travel worldwide is expected to increase this year despite the fast price rise of air travel and uncertainty of the world's economic growth, a research report from a global commercial-trip service company said on Thursday.

The increased volume of China's business travel in 2011 was the fastest among all the 60 countries that AirPlus International, a German business-travel management solution provider, has business in.

"Last year, global business flights were 6 percent higher than a year earlier, although the European debt crisis is worsening," said Patrick Diemer, Chairman of the Executive Board of AirPlus.

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