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Business travelers on the platform with ICE trains
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Together with the marketing association of Magic Cities Leipzig Tourismus und Marketing GmbH collects the travel behavior of business travelers. The majority of the data can broken down into the Magic Cities and the MICE segment .

As business trips Travel will be with at least one Accommodation understood that caused by work or training are and their cocosts are mostly not borne privately by the traveler This does not include: regular journeys between home and one's own place of work or training (e.g. so-called weekend commuters), assembly work, mobile work (e.g. flight attendants, truck drivers, etc.).

The survey was conducted in cooperation with the Research Association for Vacation and Travel (FUR).

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Facts about business travel

49  %

of the business trips to the Magic Cities were MICE trips.

122  

are spent on private matters during a business trip to a Magic City.

550  

are spent on business expenses during a business trip to a Magic City.

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Facts about 
Arrival and Sustainability

  • 29% of business travelers whose companies have guidelines on transportation use the train. Where no such guidelines exist, this figure drops to 22%. (RA business 2024)

  • Sustainability plays a role in planning for 46% of respondents. This level remains constant.

  • 31% of business travelers paid attention to a sustainability label when choosing accommodation. Another 31% of respondents did not know whether a label was present.

AI use in business travel

34  %

have already used generative AI tools for travel planning.

28  %

have already used chatbots.

12  %

We are not planning any reduction in the use of AI tools.