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Spending eight-plus hours in the air? Don’t let that valuable time go to waste. Here’s how to stay productive during long flights. A long-haul flight provides business Travelers with long stretches of uninterrupted time. No one can pop into your office to say ‘hello.’ The distractions of working from home are gone. You literally can’tRead more

With Valentine’s Day 2025 falling on a Friday, you might think it’s the perfect opportunity to whisk your sweetheart away for a bleisure trip. Here’s how to manage business travel during Valentine’s Day to strike that ideal balance.  It’s become incredibly common for business Travelers to combine business and leisure in what’s known as “bleisure”Read more

No one’s expecting travel expenses to decrease in the year ahead. What’s a Traveler or Travel Manager to do? Here’s how to streamline travel expenses in 2025. If you’ve been clued in to travel experts’ predictions for 2025, you’ve probably noticed one key, possibly worrying trend. Business travel prices are not going down. While someRead more

When you’re traveling a long distance or taking a long-haul flight, don’t make the mistake of overestimating what you’ll actually need. Use these 7 tips for packing light, and you could get by with nothing more than a carry-on.  Traveling long distances and taking long-haul flights comes with some unique stressors. You’re on a planeRead more

The REAL ID initiative has been in the works for nearly two decades. But it’s still not entirely rolled out. Is 2025 the year we finally adopt REAL IDs? And will you be impacted? Here’s what you need to know about REAL ID Act requirements and deadlines. The REAL ID Act was passed in 2005.Read more

Planning your budget around global per diem rates in 2025? Here’s what you can expect based on the latest government per diem rate guidelines and recent international travel cost data. While, yes — at least in the United States — private companies can set their own per diem rates, many choose to follow the U.S.Read more

The last thing you need during a business trip? To find yourself stranded at the airport. Here’s what to do and how to get back on the road faster. You’ve carefully prepped, prepared and planned for your upcoming business trip. You’ve followed all your company’s travel policies to a T. You show up at theRead more

Checking into your hotel — How hard could it be? It’s not as straightforward as you might think. These are some of the biggest mistakes you might be making at hotel check-in (or check-out). If you’ve been on your fair share of business trips, then you likely have a routine. Maybe you arrive in yourRead more

Business travel is all too often associated with negatives — climate change, stressed workers — but can it contribute to a better world? Taking a cultural travel approach when you travel for work could make all the difference. When you think of business travel, what do you imagine? Packing up at the office, heading toRead more

Here’s how one JTB Business Travel team member is finding success and serving clients in what she calls an unprecedented and ever-changing industry. Noriko Fujihara was bitten by the travel bug early in life, after her first international trip as a teenager. The experience was one that she says “changed her life.” She immediately jumpedRead more