Financial Times Guide to Business Travel: The Smart Companion for Hassle-Free and Productive Tips - Softcover

Crainer, Stuart; Dearlove, Des

9780273654391: Financial Times Guide to Business Travel: The Smart Companion for Hassle-Free and Productive Tips

Softcover

ISBN 10: 027365439X ISBN 13: 9780273654391

Publisher: Financial Times Management, 2001

Craner and Dearlove, both of whom are business owners, present this guide for executives, offering advice on traveling quickly, efficiently, and in comfort. They provides guidance for dealing with airlines, ground transport, illness, hotels, delays, and uncooperative modems and laptops. Matters of etiquette are also discussed. Other sources of information are listed, and a destination-by-destination guide is included. Anecdotes highlight major points. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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From the Back Cover:

Business travel can be one of the most stressful or stimulating aspects of executive life; it all depends on how well prepared you are. After the early jetsetting buzz has worn off, business trips can quickly become hard work, long-haul drudgery. Constant travel is demanding and exhausting, but it can also be enriching and endlessly stimulating.So how can you maximize the value of business travel for yourself and your business? What can you do to make the experience less draining, ease some of the frustration and generally improve its effectiveness?It's all about knowing: how to travel in comfort how to get an upgrade the quickest route from the airport to your destination what to do if you fall ill while abroad how to find the right hotel how to make the best use of your time away (including delays) how to make your hotel room work for you how to avoid those frustrating experiences with laptops and modemsA collection of tips, tricks of the trade, and anecdotes from the travel-wise, this guide aims to help make life easier, richer and more enlightening for road warriors everywhere.From planning a stress-free business trip to making the best use of all your time away, The Financial Times Guide to Business Travel is the definitive travel companion for the global executive.

About the Author:

Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove are the founders of the business contentcompany, Suntop Media. Their books include Generation Entrepreneur,Firestarter!, and Gravy Training. They regularly contribute articles tomagazines to newspapers worldwide, including Industry Standard, Business2.0, and The Times.

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