1. A horseback-riding experience is dictated by ability, the size of the travel budget and the amount of vacation time you have. 2. As the economy slowed, businesses cut their travel budgets and the airline industry suffered. 3. A travel budget is almost as necessary as uniforms. 4. Business counterparts will admire your taste as well as your travel budget. 5. Business travel budgets, which softened in the fourth quarter, particularly on Wall Street, are back to normal. 6. Businesses contribute a percentage of their travel budgets to an account and withdraw from it only for travel on AirTran. 7. But a larger economic slowdown, particularly in the United States, tightened corporate travel budgets, the company said. 8. Businesses based there are less likely to trim travel budgets than businesses based in other parts of the country. 9. But given the large percentage of travel budgets spent on meals and entertainment, corporations are still paying close attention. 10. But the recent recession prodded many companies to scrutinize their travel budgets, typically the third-largest controllable expense after salaries and data processing. |