As the saying goes: With great corporate travel opportunities come great leisure travel moments. Well, something like that anyway. In any case, that's the story the data is telling right now — work trips are on the rise, and with that, bleisure travel.

Ble-what?

While the term hasn't taken hold yet in the vernacular (one of our colleagues asked if "bleisure" was a typo when we pitched this story), you're probably already doing it if you travel for work.

Bleisure travel — or blended travel, as it's sometimes called — is the combination of work and play in one trip, whether you're adding personal vacation time to an overseas work conference, or integrating work into a holiday (though it's mostly used to refer to the former).

Business + leisure = bleisure, get it?

The rise of bleisure travel

According to a recent YouGov survey, more than 51 per cent of professionals in Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and India have taken work trips in the past two years, and seven out of 10 business travellers in the Asia-Pacific region are in the habit of extending these trips for leisure.

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