Business travelers: Who spends the most?
Other findings from the Accor Business Traveler Survey 2011: Hong Kong has most female business travelers and Indians like to get their money's worth
Australian business travelers are the most lavish hotel spenders while their Indian counterparts are the most likely to use hotel gyms, a report on business travelers shows.
“The Accor Business Traveler Survey 2011,” a joint effort by Accor, operator of Novotel hotels, and Cimigo Limited, a research consultancy firm based in Hong Kong, surveyed more than 10,000 business travelers across the Asia Pacific region from June 28 to July 7 2011.
It gauged three areas of interest: business travel in 2011 (completed and planned), business trip planning and usage of hotel facilities.
Spending and entertainment
Daily hotel allowances average at US$121 with Australian business travelers leading the pack at US$158 per night. Singaporean and Hong Kongers spend US$134 and US$132 respectively.
Spending US$99 a night, Chinese business travelers are more frugal, though 38 percent of them said their hotel budgets increase when traveling with a boss.
Indian business travelers make sure they get the most value our of their hotel nights, claiming in the survey that they are more likely to use both fitness (85 percent) and spa facilities (64 percent) in hotels than any other nationalities.
Evan Lewis, vice president of communications in Accor APAC, said, “Indian travelers very much consume the hotel. They stay in it, they eat in it, and they use the fitness facilities and spa. So they experience the entire hotel.”
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Who travels the most, and to where?
The report shows that business travelers in APAC are predominantly matriculated men working as managers.
Almost 75 percent of the respondents identified themselves as male. Managers made up 44 percent of the survey respondents while one third were at director level or above.
Hong Kong has the largest percentage of female business travelers -- 36 percent -- followed by Thailand with 33 percent. Only 7 percent of the Indian respondents were women.
Singapore and Hong Kong tie for the most visited destination by APAC business travelers in the first half of 2011. Thailand and China come in third and fourth respectively.
Being green
Nine out of 10 Chinese business travelers surveyed said they would choose a hotel simply because it is more environmentally conscious.
They also said they would be willing to pay extra for a hotel’s superior environmental commitment.
The difference in gender, although small, shows that female business travelers are more likely than male to stay in an environmentally-conscious hotel at a cost of paying 10 percent extra.
