The Brex Benchmark is a monthly snapshot of the top software and AI vendors by dollar spend using Brex. With 30,000+ customers spending billions of dollars on Brex, we have an inside look at the top tools driving modern business. This edition explores 2025 travel trends among Brex customers.

The state of business travel, 2025

The solo‑traveling salesperson has been replaced by squad travel. Companies are flying in pods for revenue moments and splurging on offsites that look straight out of “White Lotus.” The center of gravity has shifted from lone wolves to coordinated teams, and it’s changing budgets, bookings, and business outcomes.

From lone wolves to wolf packs

Solo business trips fell from 70% (2019) to 50% (2022) and are now just 35% (2025) of all trips. Trips with 2+ travelers rose to 65% of all travel, with 10+ person itineraries growing from <5% (2022) to 15% (2025).

Offsites are more regular — and more global

About 25% of traveling customers also run a 10+ person offsite every quarter (vs 5% pre‑pandemic). And more of them are international trips.

What employee experience leads should know

For employee experience leads out there, larger offsites signal larger ambitions. And don’t sweat finding the right hotel space. Airbnbs offer plenty of amenities and flexibility to turn group travel into a strategic lever.

• Revenue: Teams are tackling clients with bigger teams — multi‑threading accounts and compressing sales cycles.
• Culture ROI: Quarterly offsites institutionalize strategy resets and cross‑functional trust in ways Zoom can’t.
• Supplier leverage shifts: Destinations with an “offsite‑only” profile command premium average daily rates and group blocks; secondary cities with high Airbnb indices offer budget relief without sacrificing space.

The Offsite Index: Top offsite-only destinations

To inspire the travel planners, we took a look at the top offsite-only cities. These locales had the highest share of 10+ person trips out of all the business trips they had, and many are hot spots for incentive trips, team-building events, and corporate retreats.

Team resets with a beach-to-boardroom flow

From Brex’s data, we have some hotspots for each of the top-3 offsite destinations.

24 hours in the Bahamas

• Stay at Rosewood Baha Mar, Grand Hyatt Baha Mar, or Atlantis.
• Team dinner at Twin Brothers. Conch, grilled fish; set the tone with wins and roadblocks.
• Nightcaps at The Swimming Pig. Light agenda: recognition round.

24 hours in the Dominican Republic

• Stay at El Embajador, a Royal Hideaway, or Marriott in‑city options; resort‑inclined leaders consider a separate Casa de Campo block.
• Dinner at Adrian Tropical (waterfront). Leadership Q&A and recognize frontline stories.
• Drinks at Don Pepe. Celebrate around the cocktail tables.

24 hours in Cancun

• Stay at Kempinski Cancún, Garza Blanca Cancún, or Azul Beach Resort Riviera.
• Dinner at El Caribeño for Caribbean bites with a view.
• Drinks and a rooftop debrief at Mumma.

The Airbnb Index: Where houses beat hotels for business travel

In a handful of US metros, business travelers are booking more rooms with living rooms. Brex data shows 11 cities where teams choose Airbnbs over hotels more than anywhere else, turning houses into “war rooms” for offsites, sprints, and revenue runs.

If your party size ≥ 8 and ≥ 60% of your agenda is internal work, book a team house in these cities. In the right markets, the most productive “conference room” has a fridge, a whiteboard, and a front door code. Plan accordingly.

Sumeet Marwaha is the Senior Manager of Data Science at Brex, supporting the Go-To-Market team in understanding how Brex customers spend, adopt tools, and grow their businesses.

All analysis conducted for this report that uses Brex internal customer data is anonymized and aggregated for privacy. To learn more about how we use data in anonymized or aggregated form for these trend reports, email us at privacy@brex.com.