What is included in a business trip?

A business trip is a visit made for work purposes, not including a typical commute. This includes client visits, business conferences, site inspections, and other necessary corporate travel. Americans are estimated to take more than 405 million work-trips per year.



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Deductible travel expenses include: Using a personally owned car for business. Lodging and meals. Dry cleaning and laundry. Business calls and communication.

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What are the different types of business travel?
  • Event and conference travel. Many companies send their employees to corporate events and conferences. ...
  • Internal meetings and visiting offices. ...
  • Company retreats. ...
  • Client meetings. ...
  • Trade fairs. ...
  • Transfers and offshore work. ...
  • Bleisure travel.


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We often use another synonym for business travel in our everyday language: business trip. A business trip is carried out within the framework of one's work; it counts therefore as business travel, with the only difference being the duration: we talk about a business trip only when it lasts for several days.

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Bleisure in the business travel market Annually corporate travelers spend 22 days on average traveling for work. The average business trip lasts 3.8 days (SavvySleeper). Pre-pandemic, 57% of businesses had travel policies allowing employees to add leisure time to their business trips (Forbes).

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The IRS allows business travelers to deduct business-related meals and hotel costs, as long as they are reasonable considering the circumstances—not lavish or extravagant. You would have to eat if you were home, so this might explain why the IRS limits meal deductions to 50% of either the: Actual cost of the meal.

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Why is business travel still important? A business trip can serve various purposes, but it mainly focuses on the retention and development of the organization's internal and external customers. Several studies and surveys establish the importance of real-life meetings that are more impactful than online interactions.

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After grinding to a near halt during the COVID-19 pandemic, business trips—and profits for hotels and airlines catering to higher-paying corporate clients—are bouncing back even beyond pre-pandemic levels, per a recent survey from Morgan Stanley Research.

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Can employers require employees to share a hotel room while on business travel to reduce costs? There is no law prohibiting employers from requiring employees on business travel to share a hotel room.

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Single-day business trips must be paid to the employee at her current rate of pay, according to NOLO. An employer can deduct the time it takes for his employee to arrive at the airport, but he must pay her for all hours during the trip that is work-related, notes the U.S. Department of Labor.

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