April 2021
115
New research by global travel services expert Collinson has found that more than four-fifths of business travellers in the UAE and Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) have seen their job affected in some way by a lack of cross-border business travel, and around one third specifically said that they feel unable to do their job effectively.
It is commonly thought that business travel recovery will be slower to pick-up than leisure travel, due to businesses continuing to function during the pandemic without travel. Yet, as a further one third of business travellers in the UAE and KSA say that not being able to travel for business has made them less productive, these new findings demonstrate the economic importance of cross-border business travel for the GCC.