POST CATEGORY : Travel

A Short Guide to CEO’s Business Travel: Enhancing Connections through Face-to-Face Travel

As we inch further away from that memorable first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, it feels like much of daily life has gone “back to normal”. But it’s undeniable that the business world has changed. While norms were pretty much standardized before, many companies have now carved out their own set of working practices.

Face to face meeting

As a busy CEO, you probably have established opinions about how you decide whether to attend a meeting in person or on a video call.

Why F2F interactions can cultivate meaningful interactions

Flying out to a meeting in person helps you cultivate relationships in a way that simply wouldn’t be made possible by a video call.…

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Maximize Your Business Trip: 3 Tips for Productivity and Efficiency

Everybody understands that time is money. Being unproductive with time means that money is lost or future earnings are not earned. This is why it’s so important for a business trip to be as productive as possible to help your company manage expenses.

Taking business flight

Traveling can be quite challenging and making the most of the time on the road is not easy. It takes having a strategy that works to make sure that you are able to work efficiently and effectively. In this article, we will cover some tips to help you achieve this.

1. Stay in a short-term apartment

Where you stay will have a big impact on your productivity.…

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5 Tips To Improve Business Trips For Your Employees

When employees go on business trips, you want the experience to be straightforward so they can achieve what needs to be done. You want to ensure they’re able to accomplish their work and also uphold a good reputation for the business.

Co-workers on a business trip

Both of these goals are easier to achieve if your employees feel they can focus less on the travel aspect and more on the business aspect of the trip. If they don’t have to worry about many of the small travel details, they’ll enjoy the process more and likely be more productive.

If your company is often sending employees on business trips, you might be looking for an easy way to improve the process.…

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Common Mistakes Companies Make With Business Travel

There are a lot of people who are excited to return to the business travel world once again. Even though it is great news that a lot of places are opening up, it is also true that many people are unfamiliar with business travel.

Business travel

You need to make sure that you put your employees in a position to be successful, and everything flows from the top down. That is why you need to think carefully about how you can avoid a few common mistakes companies make with business travel.

What are some of the most common examples of mistakes, and how can you avoid them?…

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What I Pack For Travels: Your Guide to Packing

Besides researching best hotels and attractions, packing is perhaps the most challenging task when you’re preparing for a trip abroad. And sometimes you might realise that you’ve packed absolutely nothing useful only when you’ve arrived at your hotel.

Business trip

All sorts of packing mishaps are quite common among both veteran travellers and newbies. Things can go from inconvenient (forgetting to pack your goggles for a ski trip) to really bad (realising you didn’t bring your wallet only after you’ve landed.) So it is crucial that you plan out how and what to pack in your suitcase beforehand.

In addition, you may also make the mistake of packing too much or too little.…

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Five Cities to Start Your Small Business in Around the World & Why

Business is dynamic no matter where you’re based. Each place has its own regulations, rent, and target markets. Whether you want to open a café or a small tech start-up, there are plenty of factors that go into opening and running a successful business. Even still, there are some metropolises that offer the right context, space, and location for specific businesses.

City of London, London, United Kingdom

Every city has its own flavor and personality. It has its own economy. Below are five cities around the world where you should start your small business and why.…

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How to Operate a Well-Run Business While Traveling the World

Most of us humans want the same things.

We all want to travel the world and see beautiful sights and meet beautiful people. We all also want to work and make money to fund the travel. Some of us even want to make a difference in the world with our new business ideas.

Digital nomad

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There are also some things none of us want.

None of us want to make a 45-minute commute to work anymore. None of us want to be forced to buy $5 coffees in the office lobby. And absolutely none of us want to stop waking up just 10 minutes before the start of a Zoom call.…

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7 Essential Packing Tips for a Business Trip

Business trips are exciting and fun. They allow you to experience different cultures and places while sharpening your mind with new ideas and experiences.

Business travel

However, there’s one aspect of business trips that many people hate – packing. Sometimes it’s simple, but other times it can feel like an impossible task. The items you choose should allow you to achieve maximum efficiency in whatever you plan to do on the trip.

Here are seven essential packing tips for making sure your business trip is a success:

1. Start Packing Early

It’s never early to pack for a trip. Packing early for your trip can give you a chance to sort through what you need and what you don’t.…

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What You Should Know About Buy Now, Pay Later For Travel

The concept of “buy now, pay later” for travel is interesting. The basic idea is just as it sounds: purchase travel now, such as a flight or hotel stay, and pay for it over time. In essence, you’re securing a loan that a lending entity might call a point-of-sale loan.

Buy now, pay later loan for travel

We’ll talk about this concept in detail in the following article. We’ll also go over whether it’s a sensible idea if you’re thinking about traveling this year.

Why Consider a Point-of-Sale Loan?

Let’s say you’re at a financially stable point right now. Maybe you figured out the best way to consolidate credit card debt, and you’re making enough money to cover your regular expenses.…

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6 Must-Haves for the Serial Business Traveler

Traveling for business means that you are making connections all over the place and hopefully landing big accounts for your company. Meeting face to face with clients and potential clients has a lot of rewards. That personal touch can make or break a sale.

Serial business traveler

For the serial business traveler, hotel hopping will wear you down after a while. But these travelers know that there are critical things that make the traveling smoother and simpler no matter where you go. Going from airplanes to rental cars to hotels to business meetings and back again becomes a process that with the right apps and tools becomes much simpler.…

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