101 Tips for Business Travel

by Richard Brenner

Fed up with business travel? Are your business trips long chains of stressful misadventures? Have you ever wondered if there's a better way to get from here to there relaxed and refreshed? First class travel is one alternative, but you can do almost as well (without the high costs) if you know the tricks of the masters of modern travel…

Skip to the Details: How To Orderetting from here to there can be wearing, stressful and an out-and-out waste of time — if you keep doing what you've been doing. If you're like most of us, you know some of the little tricks that can make a difference in the common travel situations that most of us discover. But there's a lot more to know, and if you follow the trails already blazed by others, you can avoid the traps that trapped them.

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Read 101 Tips for Business Travel to learn the secrets the travel pros already know. This tips booklet is packed with tricks and techniques that let you fly through security, or get the best available rental car, or the safest hotel room, and much more. For instance, you'll learn how to configure your email so that if your address ever changes, all you have to do is tell one organization, instead of dozens of frequent-flyer, hotel, and car rental loyalty programs.

And it's all packaged in a single, compact e-booklet. Load it onto your Acrobat-enabled PDA or laptop and carry it with you on your next trip.

Some sample tips

Be clever about seat selection: Before you reserve your seat, or before you change your seat, visit SeatGuru.com for seat information. If you want a quiet seat, if you need some extra legroom, or if you want to be sure that your seat reclines, this site is a great reference. You'll need to know the type of equipment you're flying. Incomplete coverage of US domestic airlines, and only a few international.
Ask for a change of gloves: If you or your carry-on bags are searched at airport security, ask the agent to please change to fresh latex gloves. You have no idea (and you don't want to know) where those gloves have already been.
Carry photos of your luggage: Carrying a hardcopy photo of each item of checked baggage in your carry-on could be very helpful if your checked baggage is lost. You can snap the photo once and use it for many trips — until the bag is lost for good, that is.

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