What Happens When Government Per Diems Change?

the Authors | November 19, 2019

By Bram Gallagher Ph.D. and Aman Patel Because federal government employees purchase a significant quantity of hotel rooms, the General Services Administration (GSA) has partnered with Federal Travel Regulation (FTR) compliant accommodations to provide federal travelers with per diem hotel room rates for select high-volume travel destinations in and outside of the Continental United States. These federal guidelines frequently serve to determine the hotel per diem allowances for state and local government travelers as well. Using the federal government per diem as guidance, individual properties and hotel chains set special room rates to...