Entries by JoelV

Risk in Travel: Is Your Company Even Considering These?

Are you overlooking travel risks intimately linked not only to today’s polarized social and political climate, but environmental issues such as floods, fires, earthquakes, and other natural disasters as well? Trends show, while travelers frequenting business travel services worldwide are becoming increasingly aware of travel dangers, business owners and managers are living in ignorance of or simply […]

Do You Need Travel Vaccinations? A Guide.

Think being up-to-date on routine vaccinations means you’re a go for travel? If you’re visiting a foreign country, you may be in for a nasty surprise. Seasoned global event travel agencies know those traveling abroad can be exposed to illnesses rarely encountered in the U.S. Luckily, it is not difficult to get the protection you need with […]

8 Essential Passport Safety Tips

Passports open the door to a world of opportunities. Without one, however, the door to those opportunities could be closed in your face. If you lose this all-important document, you maymiss out on a travel event, or have great difficulty returning home. How can you keep your passport safe? 8 Essential Passport Safety Tips Treat […]

Top 10 Destinations on the US Travel Advisory List

With a new year of business, comes a new year of business travel planning, and your business has a moral and legal responsibility to ensure the safety of traveling employees. Before planning work endeavors for employees abroad, it is essential to always verify the safety of travel destinations, especially when travel is to a foreign country. How […]

Things that will Revolutionize Travel beyond 2020

Tired of listening to complaints from employees burned out on lugging heavy baggage through the airport as they rush to make connecting flights? For those wishing for a better travel management solution, the future holds promise. Thanks to the invention of self-driving car technology, ‘autonomous travel suites’ may soon follow on the horizon. These self-driving […]

How to Prevent Falling Victim to Travel Scams

In light of Australia’s Bestjet fiasco, which left thousands of consumers with empty pockets after plane tickets previously booked went up in a puff of smoke alongside refund dollars following the company’s collapse, travelers are increasingly wary of travel scams. In a world where even seemingly legit businesses leave travelers bereft, is there any way […]

This is how frequent Business Travel affect the Travelers’ health

Do certain segments of your employees travel extensively? These individuals, often the face of your company, may be at increased risk of a host of physical, behavioral, and mental health issues. Medical Claims Reveal a High Concentration of these Health Issues in Frequent Travelers Business travel planners frequently book plans for those away from their […]

Some Creative Meeting Venues Travelers are using in the new Sharing Economy

Looking for a cure for monotonous meetings? Event travel planners are seeing an uptick in the booking of ‘unique’ meeting venues sourced from the sharing economy. Creative industries such as those in technology, fashion, and media have long booked non-traditional spaces, however, the trend of turning to more nontraditional meeting venues is spreading like wildfire […]

Why many Executives like to Book their own Travel

Instead of using a travel agency for business travel, studies show about half of today’s travelers are making their own travel arrangements. Why are executives going through the headache of booking their own flight tickets, transportation, and hotel reservations? Reasons Employees Make Their Own Travel Arrangements: Convenience People prefer convenience. Today’s business travelers are used […]