Business travel is an instrumental activity through which people engage in order to further their own goals or those of the organization they represent. Business travellers rely on various modes of transportation across geographies, time zones, and cultures. This research sought to understand why business travellers, specifically executive leadership, continue to travel for business in the digital age using a qualitative, inductive approach seeking to understand patterns and relationships matching the underlying precept of coding and thematic analysis to understand travel for the purpose of conducting business. This research aimed to contribute to a gap in the literature regarding thought processes that take place when senior executives consider travel for the purpose of conducting business. Social capital theory and its subset, relational capital, was used as a reference to further develop the interview guide regarding the purpose of senior executive travel.