Bleisure travel, or combining travel for business and leisure, is becoming more popular.Martin Barraud/Getty ImagesBleisure travel is rising as employees extend work trips to add on leisure activities.One bleisure traveler said he views it as a supplement to his dedicated vacation time.AllFly, which helps book corporate group travel, said demand for bleisure trips keeps growing.When 25-year-old Josh Nichols had a short work trip to Hamburg, Germany, he and a coworker decided to add a couple extra days to stop by Belgium and France, two places he'd never been."I was already in Europe," Nichols, who works as an analyst for United Airlines, told Business Insider, "so I'm like, 'Let me just hop down and see these other countries.'"The combination of business and leisure travel has become so popular that it has a name: bleisure travel, also referred to as blended travel.While the trend has been growing for years, it got an extra boost during the pandemic when travel restrictions were lifted and business travel picked up again.