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it’s saturday One of you, or perhaps many of you reading this, is likely doing a mix of business and leisure travel right now. Mixed travel seems real.

Tom Rowley

The work-from-anywhere movement that took hold during the pandemic shows no signs of abating, giving way to a growing travel sector, the rise of so-called mixed travel. What does that mean anyway? If you have no idea, it probably means you’ve already booked a trip for work and tagged in a few days for yourself and your family.

In fact, the Skift Research team included the topic in their recent “State of Travel 2022” report as one of the biggest trends of the year and beyond.

Here are three charts that make the trend clear.

not to mention …

And finally …

Perhaps American Airlines Chief Commercial Officer Vasu Raja said at the Skift Global Forum in New York City in September, “What the pandemic has really unleashed and the recovery from it is a great merger. “People don’t have to work five days, stay private two days, and take two weeks off a year.”