If it wasn’t one thing, it was another one. For almost four years, the travel world
was turned upside down and once-peripatetic business travelers were chained to
41 their desks. But as the economy picks up and that the general business climate
42 improves for this year, corporate travelers are heading back to airports and hotels
43 around the world. What they’ll find is a vastly different environment for business
44 travel. After years of retrenchment, major airlines are growing up again,
45 resuming with service on important business-travel, mutes and rebuilding
46 in-flight services. Alternate carriers are stronger than ever and hurriedly adding
47 business-class services to appeal to the corporate traveler. New hotels are
48 opening in major business centers around the world and hoteliers who
49 are tweaking their properties with better spas, better beds, better food and
50 crisper, more being focused service. And miraculously, prices are down, too. If a
51 chorus of "Happy Days Are Here Again" isn’t quite appropriate, at least other
52 business travelers can hit the road in coming months confident that is, finally, things are getting a little better all the time.

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