Jul 26th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Business travel isn't easy. In order to make the most of the money you're spending, you wind up sacrificing sleep, cramming in as many meetings as possible and adopting a pace of life that you'd never be able to maintain at home. It's severe, it's unpleasant and it's a simple fact of life on the road. Your personal well-being tends to be the first casualty. Diet and exercise are cast aside, as you ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Five good business habits that suffer when you travel
Jul 26th, 2011 at 9:00AM: Business travel isn't easy. In order to make the most of the money you're spending, you wind up sacrificing sleep, cramming in as many meetings as possible and adopting a pace of life that you'd never be able to maintain at home. It's severe, it's unpleasant and it's a simple fact of life on the road. Your personal well-being tends to be the first casualty. Diet and exercise are cast aside, as you ...Three good reasons why Monday-morning business travel is best
May 12th, 2011 at 2:00PM: I just stepped through airport security on a Monday morning for the first time in a few years. I used to dread Mondays when I was a hard-core road warrior, because they came to represent the first step in a marathon, and I knew that agony was just around the corner. Also, it didn't help that I had only been home for 48 hours, was still exhausted and had to get up at 4 AM to start the insanity all ...Five ways to improve business travel with your family
May 11th, 2011 at 2:00PM: It usually seems easy to mix a business trip and a family vacation. You're already on the road, and your company has picked up the tab for your flight. So, a good chunk of expense has been taken out of the equation from the start! Especially if you go to a great destination, extending a business trip into a vacation can be a smart move. You may even get to absorb some of your hotel costs into your ...The advantages to one-day business trips
May 10th, 2011 at 1:00PM:
I prefer to keep my trips as short as possible – that's how I've always felt about business travel. I Not only does it get me home sooner – to be with the people with whom I'd rather spend my time – but it also results in lower expenses. So, if I need to take an extra trip, want to test out a new marketing idea or such, I'm more likely to have at least some of the cash I need ...Conference and Meeting Travel: Pack for the one-night trip
May 9th, 2011 at 2:00PM: One-day (or even one-evening) events can be fast and tiring, but it's usually worth pushing for a fast turnaround so you can get home sooner and be back in the office with less disruption. I just took a short-burn business trip two weeks ago to Boston, and I found that it sure beats planning for a few days on the road. For a trip that's few days long, I need to tote along a carry-on. For ...Conference and Meeting Travel: Five ways it differs from other business travel
May 5th, 2011 at 2:00PM: As I write this, I'm en route to Chicago from New York, the first leg of a trip that will bring me to Vancouver where I'll be when this story runs. For the first time in a few years, I'm headed to a professional conference, and the preparation process, it has occurred to me, is different from other forms of business travel. From the packing list to the mindset, it's unlike the other business trips ...Five good reasons to screw up your frequent flier mile strategy
Feb 2nd, 2011 at 11:00AM: There isn't much that's precious to a business traveler (except time off the road) - at least not that you can touch. Maybe that's why road warriors find frequent flier miles to be so important. They are at once a visible reward for suffering the slings and arrows of business travel, an indicator of class in an implicitly hierarchical community and a ticket to leisure travel later. If they ...Road warriors delivered last year, business travel coming back
Jan 18th, 2011 at 8:00AM: Last year is closed, but we're still sorting out what it all means, especially as the data continues to come in. For business travel, 2010 was expected to be a turning point, as corporations shook off the aguish associated with the global financial crisis and started to send employees back out on the road again. Following a 14.1 percent nosedive in business travel in 2009, 2010 appears to have ...Five ways holiday travelers annoy business travelers
Dec 24th, 2010 at 3:00PM: On December 23, 1999, I was trying to get from Madison, Wisconsin to Boston Massachusetts. On paper, it didn't look hard. I had to catch a short fight from Madison to Chicago and another flight from Chicago to Boston. Unsurprisingly, it was snowing in Madison. It was also snowing in Chicago. Flights were canceled quickly and routinely, and crowds backed up in the gate areas. I was starting to ...Hotels gearing up for battle over the business traveler's wallet
Dec 20th, 2010 at 12:00PM: Now that business travelers are coming back into the travel market, everyone can't stop talking about it. Of course, this is great news for airlines and hotels, as business travelers tend to spend more time on the road, have more financial flexibility and are willing to pay more for exactly the flights and locations they need. The occasional leisure traveler who hunts around for bargains, quite ...Five real reasons behind business traveler hotel choices
Dec 9th, 2010 at 8:00AM: It's not just flights – business travelers are easing up on cost when it comes to hotels, too. Rather than try to stretch their dollars until they squeal, road warriors are finally looking for ways they can be a little happier when sleeping in beds that aren't their own (unless, of course, they're sharing a bed with ... well, you know).
Hotels tend to love business travelers, because they ...Five perks business travelers MUST have
Dec 8th, 2010 at 8:00AM: If you've ever been a road warrior, you know that the following is true. Spending hours upon hours on a plane several times a week, every week of the year, even the smallest benefits can make a profound difference. It's sad but true that happiness is measured in on-time arrivals and exit rows, but such is the nature of frequent business travel.
According to the latest Orbitz for Business / ...Hotels and spas use corporate retreats for sweet financial revenge
Oct 21st, 2010 at 4:30PM: It's hard to tell who wants a business travel rebound: business travelers or the hospitality companies that cater to them. Routine road warrior jaunts suck, but there are executive retreats, training programs and other opportunities that do appeal even to the most jaded of the white collar folks.
So, the hotels are fighting to get business travelers back, according to Business Insider, and ...The top factors that influence blended travel opportunities
Sep 15th, 2010 at 8:00AM: Vacations are getting squeezed out, either because of personal financial pressures or a fear of looking like you aren't crucial in your cubicle. We keep cutting out the time we need for ourselves and our families, which can make the strain of recession-era employment even worse. You don't need any more pressure ... so why are you creating it? You need to get out on the road, and not just for the ...White Collar Travel: Stupid things business travelers have done
Jun 24th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Sometimes you lose your mind when you're on the road. You either develop a highly inappropriate sense of entitlement (this is my seat on my plane) or decide that nothing matters, giving you a blank check to behave like an asshole. The combination of professional pressures – in my day, it was the collapse of the dotcom bubble ... a bump in the road compared to the 2008 financial crisis ...White Collar Travel: Five step to healthier road warrior diets
Jun 17th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Sometimes, it seems like the road warrior's diet is relegated to the extremes. When a company executive is in town for a meeting – you're taking your clients out – it's hefty steaks, heavy cabernets and always more appetizers than a third-world country could consume in a lifetime. When there's no occasion to shape the meal, on the other hand, you're looking at suburban Chinese food ...White Collar Travel: Five embarrassing confessions of a business traveler
May 20th, 2010 at 2:00PM:
Business travelers love to look poised, in control and too important for mere words, but there's a dark side to the lifestyle that can be downright comical. Sure, some of it will come across as sad, depressing or simply stupid. When you step back from it, though, it's hard not to let out a chuckle. The trivial becomes incredibly serious, and almost every situation seems like an opportunity to ...White Collar Travel: Hotel Behavior Honed by Habit
Apr 15th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Spend enough time on the road, and your instinct takes over. Soldiers would liken it to their training kicking in. unlike the warriors who protect our way of life, the business traveler's reflex isn't intentional. Rather, it evolves from experience and is honed by habit. After a while, you're "always on" ... which is what you want. When a networking opportunity arises – or you get the chance ...White Collar Travel: Don't judge a business traveler by his mileage account
Apr 8th, 2010 at 2:00PM: There is something incredible about mileage balances that stretch to six digits. The travelers who have them, you suspect, must be the real deal, living entirely on the road. There's another class of business traveler, however, who is both quite valuable to the airline and is frequently overlooked. They fly domestic, but usually less than 2,000 miles a week. They'll get short breaks of a few weeks ...White Collar Travel: Monday morning mayhem: A business traveler starts the week
Mar 4th, 2010 at 2:00PM: Thomas Hobbes, the British philosopher, unknowingly described the life of the business traveler several centuries in advance: brutish, poor and short. Long hours, inconsistent diet and exercise and extended periods of emotional isolation virtually assure that many will burn out. This state of affairs is at its worst on Mondays, quite possibly the most miserable day of the week for the ...
