Sometimes the destination is fixed — the client is where the client is. But plenty of business travel involves a genuine choice: where to hold a conference, which market to enter first, where to base a regional meeting, or which of three interested prospects to visit. Getting that choice right affects cost, outcomes, and how … Read more
Travel is one of the few large business expenses where the same trip can cost wildly different amounts depending on when it’s booked and who’s booking it. Large companies negotiate that gap away with corporate rates. Small businesses usually just absorb it. They don’t have to. Most of the savings come from policy and process, … Read more
The idea has a clumsy name — bleisure — but the logic is sound. You’re already in the city, the flight is already paid for, and the difference between leaving Friday morning and Sunday evening is often a couple of hotel nights. For travelers and employers both, extending a work trip is one of the … Read more
Work travel breaks the conditions productivity depends on — your desk, your routine, your uninterrupted hours. What replaces them is fragmented time: an hour in a lounge, forty minutes in a taxi, an evening in a hotel room after a long day. The people who work well on the road aren’t more disciplined. They’ve matched … Read more
A business trip has a narrow definition of success: you arrive functional, the meetings go well, and nothing logistical steals your attention. Most trips that go badly do so for boring reasons — a tight connection, a dead laptop, a hotel forty minutes from where you needed to be. Planning removes almost all of it. … Read more
Video calls made travel optional for a lot of business. What they didn’t replace is the specific thing that happens when people share time in the same room — the tangents, the meals, the unplanned twenty minutes in a taxi. Relationships built in person tend to survive difficulty better. Understanding why helps you get more … Read more