In June, Choose Chicago said the city had 30.7 million domestic and international visitors in 2021, an 86% increase from 2020. But the 2021 total is still half what Chicago was seeing before the pandemic.
Business travel was frequently an excuse to get out of the office and goof off and everybody knew it! Team Building and other pre-woke nonsense! As discretionary funds dry up, so does business travel! The best one was an industry meeting that was a really a shopping trip to Singapore. Not me, I preferred trips where you carried golf clubs instead of a boring presentation portfolio.
Lion's Choice
3 years ago
There’s this new thing — called Zoom — and it has killed business travel for good.
And those who do travel for business won’t be coming to the unflushed crime toilet that is Chicago.
A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Business travel was frequently an excuse to get out of the office and goof off and everybody knew it! Team Building and other pre-woke nonsense! As discretionary funds dry up, so does business travel! The best one was an industry meeting that was a really a shopping trip to Singapore. Not me, I preferred trips where you carried golf clubs instead of a boring presentation portfolio.
There’s this new thing — called Zoom — and it has killed business travel for good.
And those who do travel for business won’t be coming to the unflushed crime toilet that is Chicago.