Vacations and Travel - Combining Business And Pleasure Trips

According to the TIA, business travel volume in 2003 was 210.5 million person trips, a drop of 2% from 2002. Business travel comprised 18% of total U.S. domestic person trips. The most common purposes for business trips were general business (meetings/consultations/presentations/sales), which accounted for 44% of trips, and conventions/conferences/seminars (22%). One-third (34%) of business trips were made for combined business and pleasure purposes. One in ten business/convention/seminar trips included multiple adults from the same household, and 5% included children.

According to the 2001 TIA report Business and Convention Travelers, half of trips that combined business and pleasure were taken by solo travelers, one-third were taken by multiple adults from a household, and one in five included a child. Baby boomers were the most likely to take combined business and pleasure trips, and households with at least one college degree took two-thirds of combined trips. About half of these travelers were professionals or employed in managerial capacities. One-third of combined business and pleasure trips were taken by households with children who lived at home.