ORLANDO, FL— About one in five business travelers still say their future business travel plans will be affected by the terrorist events of Sept. 11th, almost the same percentage recorded in October and November, in a survey conducted by Yesawich, Pepperdine & Brown (YP&B). “It appears that demand for business travel services is recovering more slowly than that for leisure travel services, said Peter Yesawich, CEO/president of YP&B. “This is presumably because the tragic events of Sept. 11th served as the catalyst for many CEOs and CFOs to finally make a decision they had been contemplating for several months prior: to reduce expenses for business travel.” The results of YP&B’s new national business travel intentions survey show 18% of business travelers planning to take a business trip during the next 12 months say their travel plans are affected, compared with 19% in October and November. The comparable percentage right after the attacks on September 11th was 33%. Among business travelers who said their business travel plans would continue to be affected by the terrorist events, about six out of 10 (57%) said they would drive rather than fly whenever they could, a decline from the November survey; four out of ten (41%) would take fewer international business trips or cancel a future international business trip (37%). One out of four (24%) said they would cancel a future domestic business trip. These percentages were comparable to those recorded on the same measures in a November survey conducted by YP&B. When asked about their reasons for changing or canceling their future business travel plans, the most frequently cited response was company concerns about the safety of travel (32%) followed by personal concerns about the safety of flying (28%). The nationally representative survey was taken with 800 qualified U.S. adult travelers during the week of January 14, 2002.