New York, Washington, D.C., Boston and Detroit are the most
expensive major U.S. cities for business travel, according to Business Travel News' 2010 Corporate
Travel Index, the annual examination of the daily costs to stay in a hotel, eat
three meals and rent a car in 100 business travel destinations in the United
States.
Outlying areas of New York, including White Plains, N.Y.,
and Newark, N.J., also became comparatively more expensive than other cities,
while several destinations with large leisure and group contingencies fell
significantly.
This year, as in the past, hotels represent the single
largest component of U.S. non-air expenses, which account for about 42 percent
of the travel dollar, while dining expenses, which represent 30 percent of the
daily cost to do business, take a larger bite out of daily travel spending than
rental car pricing.
Meanwhile, this year's International Corporate Travel Index
shows the rise of cities with ties to the petroleum industry in the list of the
world's most expensive cities for business travel.