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From Hotels to Airports: Our 2015 Business Travel Award Winners

Check out the best of the best in business travel this year.
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From yoga at the airport to flexible check-out times at hotels, the world of business travel suddenly seems friendlier. Glitches are givens for constant travelers (hello, weather delay) but technology is helping today’s traveling ’treps vault hurdles like being stranded without an office or convenient parking. 

Here we salute the innovations that are making business travel more interesting, comfortable and—dare we say?—inspiring.


Best Hotel Category

The lobby/living room at Marriott's Moxy property at Milan's Malpensa Airport.
Image Credit: Marriott

Lifestyle

Say goodbye to room service, bellmen and sit-down restaurants. An entire new category of hotels has emerged in the past year. These properties excise empty amenities—did you really need that BLT delivered at midnight?—in favor of affordable rates in nonetheless stylish surroundings. Sometimes called “lifestyle brands,” they aim to appeal to Millennials and others who value thrift, creativity and community. 

Among them are newcomers from some of the world’s biggest hotel companies—Marriott’s Moxy, which debuted last fall in Milan; Hyatt’s Centric, which opened in April; and Hilton’s Canopy,

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