A quick survey by the Association of Corporate Travel Executives, conducted three days after the executive order was issued, found that the repercussions in the business travel community were swift. Nearly four in 10 executives said the travel ban would curtail their company’s business travel. “People like certainty, travelers like certainty, companies like certainty,” said Greeley Koch, the group’s executive director. Michael W. McCormick, executive director and chief operating officer of the Global Business Travel Association, offered a similar prediction. “If we can have a ban on seven countries now,” Mr. Baker said, “what can happen in the future?”

Source: New York Times February 06, 2017 21:15 UTC