The Global Business Travel Association reports that despite the effects of the ongoing government shutdown on corporate travel, growth in business-traveler numbers next year is expected to help raise overall spending by 7.2 percent, to $288.8 billion. The number of business trips taken is predicted to rise 1.6 percent, to 459.2 million. Spending on international corporate travel next year is predicted to grow by 12.4 percent, to $36.6 billion. Read the USA Today story here.

