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Egencia Study: Brits Work Hard on Business Trips,but Play IT Safe With Hotel Choice

Published by Gbaf News

Posted on October 10, 2015

3 min read

Last updated: January 22, 2026

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Business hotel booking form illustrating preferences of British travellers - Global Banking & Finance Review — Image of a hotel booking form emphasizing the preferences of British business travellers. Highlights include loyalty to hotel brands and the importance of Wi-Fi, reflecting insights from the Egencia study.

Over one-half of British travellers stick to what they know and claim to feel the frustrations of travel according to the Egencia Global Traveller Survey

Business travellers from the United Kingdom are very consistent when choosing a hotel for a business trip with 54 percent saying they always stay at the same hotel brand when traveling on business and 52 percent saying they will stay at their favourite hotel brand even if the property isn’t conveniently located. This is a full 10 points higher than the global average. Further, more than half (53%) of British workers will even choose to stay at their favourite hotel when attending a conference or event, regardless of organiser recommendations. These figures come from the 2015 Egencia® Global Traveller Survey.

The importance of free Wi-Fi is also a major hotel feature for British business travellers, with 53 percent citing having to pay for Wi-Fi as their greatest frustration. What’s more, in what appears to be a desire to have access to work around the clock, a 24-hour full service business centre being available is important to 29 percent of British workers. This is considerably higher than European counterparts in France (17%), Germany (13%), Norway (11%) and Sweden (11%).

According to the survey results, British people’s reputation for being patient when queuing is in fact a fallacy. At almost one-fifth (18%), British business travellers are actually the second most frustrated nationality by queues at hotel front desks, with only Norwegians (22%) being more annoyed by queuing. However, rather than complain when on their trip, the famous British stiff upper lip seems to prevail.

When they do share feedback on a hotel stay, almost half of British workers will take to the Internet to leave an online review about a hotel. British business travellers are keyboard warriors when it comes to complaining about dirty rooms (57%) and unfriendly customer service (44%). The love of online has made British travellers the most thorough researchers in Europe, with 93 percent visiting more than one website before booking their hotel.

For hotels, providing an enjoyable online booking experience is essential to attracting British business travellers. For British workers, the inability to book a room on the required date (36%), too many search results / choices (26%) and not being able to view the location of a hotel in relation to their destination (25%) are the biggest frustrations amid the booking process.

Graham Kingsmill, managing director, Egencia UK comments: “Travelling for business, especially for frequent travellers, can be more hassle than it needs to be, so it’s no surprise that British travellers enjoy the familiarity of the same hotel or hotel brand. It’s therefore to be expected that substandard services create a wave of frustration amongst workers. This is something that Egencia understands and incorporates in its technology and services for business travellers and their companies. We feel it is our role to help business travellers, not just search for what they’re looking for, but find it.”