43% Indian travellers ready to accept a lower paying job

New Delhi: 43 percent of business travelers in India are ready to accept a lower paying job if it meant they could travel more for work as compared to 30 percent globally.

It was found in research carried out by Booking.com for Business, the global leader in connecting business travelers with the widest choice of places to stay.

The research shows that company bosses are potentially undervaluing business travel as a staff remuneration “bargaining chip” as well as a workforce motivation and retention tool, said the research.

More than half of Indian business travelers (67 percent) have extended their business trips, to a different city or country in the past 12 months. The statistics indicate that this trend in India is higher as compared to the global findings (49 per cent).

Where nearly one-third of Indian business travelers (48 percent) are claiming that they intend to do the same in 2017, only 27 per cent claim the same globally.

Additionally, 69 percent of Indian travelers surveyed, believe that they will travel more for business in 2017 than they did in 2016, as versus a global finding of 46 percent.