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Complete Travel GuideHave new technologies improved solo business travels?
by:
Stephane Vergnaud
In the last 10 to 20 years, advance in technology has changed
many a aspects of business travel; from the way we book our edifice
rooms to staying in touch with relatives left at home.
However it seems that it has not changed one aspect of it: the feeling of loneliness featured by a majority of business folk patch travelling and in particular, patch feeding
and drinking in the evening at hotels.
The latest Barclaycard Business Travel Survey (www.barclaycard.co.uk) shows that, whereas 95% of businessmen and women travel solo, 45% of them have felt lonely during their business trips.
Technology has only help to reduce the time spent travelling. The survey tells us that nights way from house have attenuate to 4.1 nights per month from 4.4 last year. Technology such as video-conferencing has reduced the need for face-to-face meetings. It has not ready-made it easier staying alone in far away cities.
Women seem to be even as more affected by the negative aspects of solo travel. Up to 61% of women have aforementioned feeling uncomfortable drinking at bars on their own and 34% didn’t like feeding
on their own.
So are business travellers doomed to feel lonely, depressed or uncomfortable once
away from home? Well, there are several tips one can follow to try improve this situation:
Try to talk to folk who are waiting to be sitting
at the restaurant. If they are alone, they wish probably be really happy to share their table with you, and enjoy a more much relaxed evening.
Try to arrange to meet with being you cognize in town, or being you have met the same day at activity or elsewhere.
Ask for a table near a people-watching window. If you eat alone, at least you can look at what is going on outside.
Go to the building early. Really often, restaurants have a more romantic setting at later times, thing
you want to avoid if you are alone!
Finally use networking clubs to contact different folk who live locally. You may then meet with them (important: always do so in a public place)
New technologies have improved the way we can plan and organise business travels. However, once
it comes to it, only old-fashioned tips wish do your solo journeys a better experience.
Just about the Author
Stephane Vergnaud is the Founder and MD of Bird of passage Business Club, the 1st business club to offer you the possibility to meet and network with different members, where
and whenever you travel at www.nomadbusinessclub.net.
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