Four Points study shows business traveler mobile habits

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By Nathan Greenhalgh on 8/20/2012

A new study commissioned by the Four Points by Sheraton brand of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Stamford, Connecticut, reveals the mobile phone habits of global business travelers.

The survey polled a total of 6,000 business travelers globally, – 1,000 each from the United States, the United Kingdom, China, India, Germany and Brazil.

The survey’s findings included:

• Across all nationalities, 55% of respondents bring three or four devices with them on the road
• Smartphones are the most-used mobile device at 74%, followed by tablets at 65%, music players at 43% and laptops at 32% 
• Business travelers are glued to those smartphones — after landing, 54% turn on their smartphone while the plane is still taxiing on the tarmac, while 12% never turn it off in the first place while the remaining respondents wait until they’re in the terminal or settle into their taxi/car at 17% each
• Tablets beat laptops as 68% use their tablet more often than their laptop
• 90% use mobile devices is to keep up with email on the road, followed by Internet browsing and social networking at 75% and maintaining communication with the office at 73%
• Most respondents report they use emoticons 72%) and shorthand (77%) in their daily texts and emails