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Expectations of business travel for 2013, with more than 2,000 travel buyers worldwide surveyed. The study shows an increasing gap between expected numbers and spend, and a slight downward trend.


GLOBAL EXPECTATIONS IN % Travel spend 25


2010 23


34 34


2011 EUROPEAN EXPECTATIONS IN % Travel spend will increase Numbers will increase 32 38 26 EUROPE 32 30 26 FLIGHT HOTEL Source: Preview of Airplus International Travel Management Study, Outlook 2013 21 Travel numbers 40 35 32 2012 2013


The chart below shows, by sector, the gap between expected traveller numbers and spend for Europe during 2013.


AMERICAN EXPRESS POLLED 200 FINANCE DIRECTORS IN UK COMPANIES:


19 FAIRS & EVENTS


81% expect an increase in revenues in 2013


78% expect an increase in profitability in 2013


72% plan to expand into international markets


GTMC: TOP 10 ROUTES FOR GROWTH


The GTMC combined members' transaction data with polling business travellers to compile this list of priority targets for extra Heathrow capacity.


DESTINATION


Bogota (Columbia) Brasilia (Brazil)


Chengdu (China)


SERVED BY (weekly) Paris (6)


Frankfurt (10) Schiphol (3) Dammam (Saudi Arabia) Schiphol (3) Douala (Cameroon) Lima (Peru) 24 Phuket (Thailand) Santiago (Chile) Shenzhen (China) Source: GTMC Schiphol (5) , Paris (14) Schiphol (7)


GROWTH INDUSTRIES 4.9%


2.7% 7.4% 5.51% 4.1% 6.1% Panama City (Panama) Schiphol (7), Frankfurt (6) 10.4% Schiphol (4), Frankfurt (2) 1.2% Paris (7) 5.7% 7.4% Oil, meat, gold, steel


Oil, agriculture, steel, consumer durables, service sector


Automobiles, IT, defence, energy


Petroleum-based, diversifying service sector


Petroleum, cocoa, timber, agriculture


Precious metals


Offshore banking, commerce, tourism, trading


Manufacturing, computers, rubber


Copper, coltan, precious metals, chemicals and offshore mining


Heavy engineering, pharma, manufacturing


China Brazil Chile


Russia India Other


Priorty destinations by country: 300 business travellers surveyed.


39 AIRPLUS: OUTLOOK 2013 47%


The percentage of Conservative MPs who either “strongly support” (22 per cent) or “tend to support” (25 per cent) expansion at Heathrow


Source: Ipsos MORI opinion poll


JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013


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