{"id":630826,"date":"2026-03-18T23:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630826\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:22:16","slug":"miami-sees-surge-in-business-travelers-during-world-baseball-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630826\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami sees surge in business travelers during World Baseball Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Business travel booked to Miami International Airport during the five days of the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/manfred-marvels-at-rapid-growth-of-world-baseball-classic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/manfred-marvels-at-rapid-growth-of-world-baseball-classic\">World Baseball Classic<\/a> (Friday-Tuesday) more than quadrupled compared to the same period last year, according to FCM and Corporate Traveler USA, soaring 2,520% compared to what the city saw comparable period during the 2023 WBC, also held at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/japanese-brands-seize-opportunity-for-reach-through-wbc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2026\/03\/18\/japanese-brands-seize-opportunity-for-reach-through-wbc\">LoanDepot Park<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Boston, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco were the top cities of origin, according to the data. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Corporate Traveler is the small and medium enterprise division of Flight Centre Travel Group, one of the world\u2019s largest travel groups. It has deals with the Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Mets and Houston Rockets, in addition to being a provider to a number of other teams across each major professional sports league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">On the consumer side, STH Group and Japan-based JTB Corp were MLB\u2019s exclusive providers of premium hospitality and travel packages for the WBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Business travel booked to Miami International Airport during the five days of the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,5885,4],"class_list":["post-630826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-baseball","tag-loandepot-park","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116252753798073976","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}