Did COVID-19 kill business travel?
Conferences and business gatherings have been slow to return to pre-pandemic numbers, travel and lodging experts say. (Lance Murphey/Daily Memphian file)
Business travel hasn’t resumed its pre-pandemic pace, even with vaccination rates rising and COVID-19 restrictions being lifted. Some are questioning if it ever will.
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Blake Fontenay
Blake Fontenay’s 27-year journalism career has taken him to many newspapers in four states. However, he had never returned to work in any of the other cities where he had been before until the opportunity to report for the Daily Memphian presented itself. He covers business for the Daily Memphian.
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