With Daniel Lippman
MONKEY SEE, MONKEY DO?: A coalition of travel and business groups is urging the Biden administration to nudge the federal workforce back into their offices, and to jump-start business travel among federal workers as well, as business travel continues to rebound more slowly than the broader travel industry following the pandemic.
— In a letter to President Joe Biden, Airlines for America, the American Hotel and Lodging Association, the Global Business Travel Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the U.S. Travel Association argued that by encouraging the resumption of in-office work and business travel among government employees, “the federal workforce would serve as a model for the rest of the country.”
— The coalition praised Biden’s emphasis on returning workers to offices in his State of the Union address earlier this year. But the groups pointed out that business travel has struggled to…
