The Global Business Travel Association, a travel industry trade group, predicts business in the corporate travel sector will have increased between six and seven percent by 2019 and 2020.
Using data compiled from Business Travel News’ Corporate Travel Index, Expert Market, a business-to-business office equipment marketer, has concluded that three American cities take the top spots.
The typical business traveler spends about $549 per day in New York, compared to $534 in San Francisco and $511 in Boston. Tokyo and Zurich round out the top five. Washington and Chicago are also in the top 10.
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s recommendations for the safest 2018 cars is comprised of very few American made, while Korean, German and Japanese made the top of the 69 chosen vehicles.
Ford’s Lincoln Continental was the only car in the Top Safety Pick Plus category, and the only vehicle included in the Top Safety Pick class was the Chevy Volt. The Buick Envision made the grade in the midsize luxury SUV group, as did the Chrysler Pacifica among the minivans.
IIHS President Adrian Lund said his organization notified automakers early in 2017 that this year’s ratings would include new tests for improved headlights and passenger-side frontal overlap crash protection. “We have raised the bar and so the number is reduced.”
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The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has raised the bar for new vehicles to earn its highest “Top Safety Pick+” designation and most models have to be specially equipped, adding as mush as $11,000 to the base price.
In addition to scoring top “good” marks in full frontal, driver’s-side small overlap, side-impact, roof strength, and head-restraint performance tests, a vehicle has to offer a forward auto-braking system, along with meeting stricter headlamp performance ratings, and a new-for-2018 passenger’s-side version of its small overlap crash test that replicates hitting a tree or pole.
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