From conference ticket to last-mile taxi: building an events travel policy that pays for itself

Corporate events travel is one of the fastest-growing and most logistically complex slices of business travel — yet most company policies still treat a twelve-person delegation like a single salesperson catching a Tuesday flight. Here is what the numbers actually say, and what a policy built for events covers.

Global business travel spending hit a record $1.57 trillion in 2025 and is on track to pass $2 trillion by 2029, according to GBTA’s Business Travel Index. Within that total, the average...