10 Tips for Business Travel, Analyze It

If you're a road warrior, these travel tips will help reduce the stress of your journeys,10 Tips for Business Travel
10 Tips for Business Travel, Analyze It
10 Tips for Business Travel, Analyze It

1. Choose your Travel Modality Wisely

Planes, trains or automobiles: what's the choice to be? While air travel is clearly the only way to go for long journeys, shorter trips of a couple of hundred miles might be faster via train, bus, or auto. While making choice, consider the time spent traveling to and from airports, in addition, time spent arranging for check-in, security, and departure. Also, consider the effects inclement weather can have on your travel choice. It's no fun hearing the announcement that your plane can't land due to poor visibility and you'll be returning to your departure airport.

2. Consider Alternative Airports

If you're flying, consider alternative airports that are outside the city you're going to visit. As a rule, these air terminals have fewer flights, less overbooking, and fewer delays than their larger counterparts.

3. Obtain an International Drivers License

If traveling outside your own country, an international driver's license will be more readily recognized than your locally issued driver's license. The expense isn't restrictive and in many areas, the licenses are easily obtained by showing your local driver's license. Ask at your nearby Automobile Association.

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4. Get Your Maps Before You Leave Home

Travel is less stressful if you know how to get around. Before leaving home, get guides for your objective city. One approach is to visit websites such as City Search (http://www.citysearch.com/) and print out maps. Place your printed maps in plastic folders for protection against the elements. Trying to read a road map while standing on a rainy street corner has its obvious disadvantages.

5. Carry Electronic Documents Rather than Hard Copy

Rather than carry heavy stacks of brochures or sales letters, take electronic documents on diskettes and have them printed at a local printing service. Similarly, if you are working a booth in trade the show, it's a good idea to carry electronic documents in case you run out of the stack you shipped from the office.

6. Find Hotels that Cater to Business Travelers

Hotels that cater to business travelers will have Internet capabilities and offer access to business machines such as faxes and photocopiers.

7. Remember Adaptors and Converters

If you're traveling to a foreign country, remember that you might need special voltage adaptors for electricity. You might also need plug adapters to accommodate both electrical plugs and telephone jacks. A good travel store will be able to help you decide what's needed.

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8. Use Calling Cards

When you're staying at a hotel, the phone bill can be a major expense. The expense of calling your family, checking your voice mail, and checking your email is best handled by using a telephone calling card or a corporate credit card.

9. Check your Cellular Service

Cellular phone companies regularly offer new rates. Check to be sure you're getting the best deal -- some now include long-distance charges in the monthly fee. If your business travel will take you to small, out-of-the-way towns, your advanced telephone probably won't work. You will need an analog or dual digital/analog phone for such trips.

10. Protect Yourself Against Theft

Before leaving home, make duplicates of your movement records (passport, airline tickets, travel insurance, credit cards, and itinerary).

Take duplicates with you and leave a duplicate with a contact at home. Take special precautions for your electronics. See what your local travel store has to offer in terms of protective luggage. You can purchase laptop cases that disguise the fact that they're used for laptops, or laptop cases that look old and battered. And of course, find the Article, you already know how fast and savvy a pickpocket can be. Avoid carrying important documents in your purse or hip pocket.

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CONCLUSION:

If traveling outside your own country, an international driver's license will be more readily recognized than your locally issued driver's license. Rather than carry heavy stacks of brochures or sales letters, take electronic documents on diskettes and have them printed at a local printing service. Before leaving home, make duplicates of your movement records (passport, airline tickets, travel insurance, credit cards, and itinerary).

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