How Gen Z is Turning Work Journeys into Life Upgrades

New analysis from Accommodations.com exhibits Gen Z and Millennial enterprise travellers are remodeling work journeys into private experiences — from self-funded lodge upgrades and superb eating to social-media documentation and prolonged “bleisure” stays

Enterprise journey is quick changing into a life-style selection for youthful professionals, in line with new analysis from Accommodations.com.

Its Enterprise Journey Report 2025, based mostly on a survey of two,000 U.S adults who journey for work, discovered that 85 per cent of Gen Z and 88 per cent of Millennials view work journeys as alternatives to enhance their on a regular basis lives relatively than obligations of the job.

The findings counsel that many in these generations use enterprise journey to entry higher-end lodging, safe restaurant reservations, and accumulate rewards factors — all whereas sharing their experiences on-line.

Accommodations.com stated the analysis highlights a generational shift in attitudes in the direction of skilled journey, mixing work and leisure — or what the business now calls “bleisure” — into what it phrases the “upgraded life”.

Melanie Fish, Vice-President of International Public Relations at Accommodations.com, stated: “Our analysis discovered that the primary motive Gen Z professionals like work journeys is that it advantages their careers, however that doesn’t imply they shouldn’t get pleasure from them, too.”

Amongst these surveyed, 73 per cent of Gen Z and 77 per cent of Millennial travellers stated that they had personally paid to improve to a greater lodge, in contrast with 48 per cent of older colleagues.

Youthful contributors additionally put up three to 5 instances extra regularly on social media whereas travelling for work, with 75 per cent saying they’d fund luxurious eating or leisure for higher content material.

Millennials are most certainly to increase their stays, with 40 per cent taking in a single day flights to realize private time and 54 per cent expressing curiosity in solo exploration after enterprise ends.

Accommodations.com reported that 58 per cent of all enterprise travellers make journey choices to maximise rewards, and virtually half have used these factors for leisure journeys.

The report additionally discovered that Gen Z travellers are greater than twice as doubtless as older colleagues to pay for flight upgrades (62 per cent versus 25 per cent) and to spend on premium eating or leisure (73 per cent versus 38 per cent).

1 / 4 stated they’d expense spa therapies if firm coverage allowed, and one in 5 would come with train courses. Millennials are likely to expense journey or room upgrades, whereas older employees prioritise transport.

Gen Z respondents have been additionally probably the most inclined to deliver a companion on work journeys (50 per cent) or prolong their stick with colleagues (45 per cent). Almost half of Millennials stated they’d not journey for enterprise if unable to doc the expertise on-line, in contrast with a 3rd of Gen Z.

Throughout all age teams, 57 per cent of enterprise travellers stated the possibility to go to locations they won’t in any other case see was among the many fundamental sights of labor journeys, with most wishing to spend an extra three to 4 days within the location.

Youthful travellers favoured Tokyo, Paris and New York, whereas older contributors most popular London.

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