Hotel operators are also worried about decreases in business travel.

酒店经营者也担心商务旅行的减少。

China is now the biggest business travel market in the world.

中国如今是世界上最大的旅游市场。

Globalization has increased opportunities in many areas, including business, travel and education.

全球化在许多领域增加了机会，包括商业，旅行和教育。

Finally this week two players in the commercial space travel business saw success.

本周，商业太空旅行业务的两位参与者终于取得了成功。

Kaplan noted that a lot of business travel has stopped, and most people are visiting friends and relatives.

卡普兰指出，许多商务旅行已经停止，大多数人都是走亲访友。

The crisis has also affected business travel.

这场危机也影响了商务旅行。

But fancy business travel has not.

但豪华商务旅行却没有。

It's certainly having an impact on business travel.

这肯定会对商务旅行产生影响。

What does this heavy reliance on business travel mean for non-business travelers?

这种对商务旅行的严重依赖对于非商务旅行者意味着什么？

Let's say business travel never returns to pre-pandemic levels.

假设商务旅行永远不会恢复到大流行前的水平。

The topic for today's Ask an American is traveling in the United States, especially business travel.

今天Ask an American的话题是美国旅游，尤其是商务旅行。

But consider just one pandemic change: the massive drop in business travel.

但只考虑一个流行病变化：商务旅行的大幅减少。

And the other thing I would note is the smaller business travel is coming back even more quickly.

我要注意的另一件事是，小型商务旅行的回归速度更快。

The car-hire company, which also owns the Dollar and Thrifty brands, saw its sales collapse when business travel and tourism came to a virtual halt.

当商务旅行和旅游业实际上陷入停顿时，这家拥有美元和节俭品牌的汽车租赁公司的销售急剧下滑。

Domestic business travel in the U.S. is only around 67 percent of what it was before Covid; international business travel is only at 54 percent.

美国国内商务旅行仅为新冠疫情爆发前的 67% 左右；国际商务旅行仅占 54%。

How can anyone justify business travel in a world when we went remote so easily and now we're waking up to the climate emergency?

当我们如此轻松地去偏远地区并且现在我们正在意识到气候紧急情况时，任何人都可以证明世界上的商务旅行是合理的吗？

Mr. Samuels says tourism has increased in the country, helping the family's travel business, Myanmar Shalom. The business permits them to pay the cost of repairs.

Samuels 先生说，该国的旅游业有所增加，这有助于家族的旅游业务 Myanmar Shalom。企业允许他们支付维修费用。

But some travelers are concerned about rising nightly rates, and some analysts believe that hotel chains and competitors like Expedia Group, stand to gain as business travel picks up this year.

但一些旅行者对每晚房价的上涨感到担忧，一些分析师认为，随着今年商务旅行的增长，连锁酒店和 Expedia Group 等竞争对手将有望获利。

Those in the business travel industry maintain that these serviced apartment dispense with all the unwanted and expensive hotel services that business travelers don't want, while maximising the facilities they do want.

一些商业旅行业认为这些酒店式公寓去掉了所有商务旅客不想要且昂贵的服务，最大化了他们需要的设施。

So I think that's a reasonable thing to do in order to keep business travel up and running, even as we're all trying to deal with controlling the virus.

因此，我认为为了保持商务旅行的正常运行，这是一个合理的做法，即使我们都在努力控制病毒。