Reports & Guides
Triniti Fisher
December 8, 2025
The line between business and leisure travel continues to blur. Recent surveys show that over 60% of business travelers now extend at least some trips for personal time — a trend commonly called 'bleisure' travel. For corporate travel managers, this presents both an opportunity and a policy challenge.
Companies that embrace bleisure see measurable benefits: higher traveler satisfaction, improved retention, and in many cases, lower costs. When a traveler extends a trip over a Saturday night, airfares are often significantly cheaper than midweek roundtrips.
Your travel policy should clearly define where business travel ends and personal travel begins. Key areas to address include: liability and duty of care during personal extensions, expense delineation (which costs the company covers vs. the traveler), insurance coverage during personal days, and approval workflows for trip extensions.
Allow bleisure by default and require approval only for extensions beyond a set number of days. Clearly communicate that the company's duty of care and travel insurance may not cover personal portions of trips. Use your TMC platform to separate business and personal segments for clean reporting.
ITS's booking platform allows travelers to flag trip extensions and automatically separates business and personal expenses. Our reporting tools give travel managers visibility into bleisure patterns without creating administrative burden.
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