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The volume of business travel continues to fall

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23.5.2025

The German hotel industry's bread-and-butter business continues to decline: While the VDR business travel analysis counted around 40% fewer business trips in Germany in 2024 than in 2019, the figure is now even 45% lower. Travel expenditure, on the other hand, has doubled - partly because companies are acting more strategically, more efficiently and are more willing to invest in business trips.

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