The State of Corporate Travel and Expense 2022 38 SKIFT + TRIPACTIONS making significant strides to adapt to the new reality. Airline seats, hotel beds, and convention floors are on course to return to and then exceed pre-pandemic levels. Confidence in health protocol and vaccination measures is one driver. Another is the growing demand and desire to travel. And as the sector looks to flourish anew, companies, travel managers, and employees will go forth equipped with an emerging set of dynamic new travel solutions. Spend management in particular is emerging in a more agile, intelligent, and resilient state, offering f inance teams enhanced all-in-one visibility into and control over the process. More streamlined, unified, efficient, and easy to use than before, travel and expense platforms may be the pandemic’s ultimate silver lining as we move into the future.