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Boilerplate
One line: The Sales Traveler is an independent editorial desk that scores business-travel and sales-technology companies on their published commitments.
Short (50 words): The Sales Traveler is an independent, reader-funded editorial desk covering revenue travel — business trips that exist to move revenue. It publishes 13 ranked market indexes scoring 175+ companies on published commitments only, first-party benchmark research, and a public corrections ledger. Every score carries a documented right of reply.
Editor: Rachel Julian, founder and editor. Bio and headshot on request: rachel@thesalestraveler.com · LinkedIn.
Citation-ready findings
Hotels · The US50
0 of 50 major US hotel brands publish a quiet-room commitment; the category averages 54/100 on the 15-check Sales-Ready instrument. Crowne Plaza leads at 80.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s The US50 (https://thesalestraveler.com/sales-ready-index/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
Airlines · Deal-Day Index
American and Delta lead at 93/100 on published deal-day commitments; Frontier scores 20. Only 2 of 10 US carriers publish a seat-power commitment.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s Deal-Day Index (https://thesalestraveler.com/deal-day-airline-index/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
Roaming
T-Mobile leads business roaming at 93/100 — the rare winner that publishes its limits rather than hiding them.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s Roaming (https://thesalestraveler.com/roaming-index/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
Expense & T&E
Navan and Ramp lead travel-expense platforms at 87/100 on published commitments.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s Expense & T&E (https://thesalestraveler.com/expense-velocity-index/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
Workspaces
WeWork leads road-workspace providers at 87/100.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s Workspaces (https://thesalestraveler.com/road-office-index/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
2026 Sales Travel Survey (Wave 1)
74% of revenue leaders say in-person presence is decisive in late-stage deals — yet only 48% of trips carry a written objective, and fewer than 20% of teams require formal trip justification.
Cite as: “According to The Sales Traveler’s 2026 Sales Travel Survey (Wave 1) (https://thesalestraveler.com/research/), 2026 edition.” Link required.
Usage rules
Findings, single statistics, and score references: free with attribution and a link to the source page. Republishing full tables requires a syndication license; quoting up to three rows in coverage does not. Charts and share cards on index pages may be embedded unmodified with the credit intact. Citation never implies endorsement in either direction — we score the companies we cover, including advertisers, on the same instrument.
Fact-checking & corrections
Every score is editorial opinion applied to the public record, dated, with a changelog — the full method is at /governance/. If you're checking a figure before publication, email rachel@thesalestraveler.com; replies land inside one business day. If we got something wrong, the public ledger shows how corrections work — it opened with our own mistake.
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