Green Shoots of Recovery?

I was reminded by the article link below of when I was doing a lot of travelling in Spain about 3 or 4 years ago and I would straw poll taxi drivers on how well their business was going.

 Around that time they'd noticed a drop off in business and sure enough after the lag effect the crisis hit.  I know the "taxi-driver" experiment is only anecdotal but I saw this article and it made me think that maybe this is a good sign for the future.....

 http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/news/2011/4/25/business_travel_spending_rebounds.htm