Thursday, 14 June 2012

GBTA report predicts business travel spend increase across all ...

June 13, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

The new report found that economic growth across Europe will be constrained in 2012 with weakness in the first half giving way to improving prospects later in the year. Increasing economic growth in Germany, France and the UK will be offset by declines in many Southern European economies.

The Global Business Travel Association (GBTA), the world?s premier business travel and corporate meetings organization, announces the results of its inaugural ?GBTA Business Travel Index (BTI) Outlook ? Western Europe? economic analysis, sponsored by Visa Inc.

This semi-annual series includes the GBTA BTI which provides a method for distilling market performance and the outlook for business travel into a single metric to be tracked over time. ?GBTA BTI Outlook ? Western Europe? includes an analysis of the five most critical business travel markets in Europe: Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Spain.

Highlights

- Growth in business travel spending (?BTS?) in the three major European economies: Germany, the UK and France will be nearly flat in 2012: UK is forecast to grow BTS by 0.7% , Germany is forecast to grow BTS by 0.6%, French BTS is forecast to decline by 0.6%

- Forecast levels of 2012 BTS in Germany, UK and France all exhibit growth in domestic travel, but declines in international outbound spending (?IOB?): UK domestic BTS is forecast to grow by 2.7% but IOB is forecast to fall by 2.8%, German domestic BTS is forecast to grow by 1.1% but IOB is forecast to fall by 1.4%, French domestic BTS is forecast to grow by 0.7% but IOB is forecast to fall by 2.7%

- Growth levels in 2013 BTS in Germany, the UK and France will be much stronger with both domestic BTS and IOB showing increases: Germany is forecast to grow overall BTS by 5.4%, France is forecast to grow overall BTS by 5.1%, The UK is forecast to grow overall BTS by 4.0%

- Southern European countries, Spain and Italy will experience even steeper declines in BTS due to slower economic growth rates and austerity measures. 2012 is forecast to see declines of 4.1% and 5.0% for Spain and Italy, respectively

- Overall, the European economic situation will weigh heavily on countries? economic growth levels. In 2012, GDP in Germany, France and the UK are forecast to grow by 0.5%, 0.6% and 0.7% respectively. This will be due more to the indirect impact of Southern Europe rather than domestic weaknesses

- Sovereign debt crises in Italy and Spain will lead to 1.8% and 1.9% declines in 2012 GDP, respectively

Get the full story at GBTA

Latest Industry News

Why travel marketers need to embrace brand value exchange
14 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Sabre partners with China?s TravelSky to boost hotel bookings
14 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

The changing face of all-inclusive hotels
14 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Choosing a hotel dominated by emotional drivers
14 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

How to use the new Google Analytics social reporting tool
14 Jun, 2012 | Online Marketing

The key to success on the Google Display Network
14 Jun, 2012 | Online Marketing

GBTA report predicts business travel spend increase across all Europe in 2013
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

TripAdvisor?s Tingo says travelers are paying to much for hotels
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Hipmunk raises $15M to go big or go home
13 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

iPads account for 86% of Four Seasons mobile revenue
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Chinese tourists poised to transform global travel industry
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

How Starbucks is turning itself into a tech company
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Hotel Social Media Marketing 2.0
12 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Apple Passbook: The first step towards the iTravel era?
12 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

Women travelers influence trends
12 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Most Popular Articles

Hotel Social Media Marketing 2.0
12 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Direct hotel booking strategy: How to convert callers who shop online
11 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

How to use Yelp for your hotel?s direct booking strategy
08 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Apple Passbook: The first step towards the iTravel era?
12 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

New report predicts online bookings will grow travel
08 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

More on Google Promoted Hotel Ads
11 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

TripAdvisor?s Tingo says travelers are paying to much for hotels
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Digital travel outlook: What the digital revolution means for travel marketers
11 Jun, 2012 | Online Travel

The Facebook fallacy
08 Jun, 2012 | Online Marketing

Daily deal sites in travel are, like, so 2011
11 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Latest Company News

Santika Hotels & Resorts maximizes the billboard effect through RateGain
14 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Global Hotel Exchange launches
13 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Lodging Interactive giving hoteliers control over hotel website content
12 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

O?Rourke on how hotel website speed impacts SEO
12 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

MICROS eCommerce launches new website for Global Hotel Alliance
11 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

India?s biggest travel site - Make My Trip - partners with SiteMinder
10 Jun, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Availpro launches its new Direct Click Manager service
11 May, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

SiteMinder receives $5 Million investment to fund global expansion
10 May, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

RateGain awarded qualified vendor status with Choice Hotels International
10 May, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

eRevMax expands its India presence with new office in Bengaluru
10 May, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Lodging Interactive launches website analytics & social tool
10 May, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Pegasus launches RezView Intelligence
26 Apr, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

HSMAI Revenue optimization conference to focus on RM evolution
27 Mar, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

De Vere partners with SiteMinder
27 Mar, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

Lodging Interactive launches website analytics & social tool
27 Mar, 2012 | Hotel Marketing

ron artest gladys knight private practice deion sanders dancing with the stars aapl creutzfeldt jakob disease

No comments:

Post a Comment