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Business Travel in Asheville, North Carolina: How to Choose the Right Corporate Travel Planner
Article by Sarah Benoit
Business travel is a growing industry in America. As corporations and companies expand into the global market the demand for services tailored to traveling executives and entrepreneurs increases every year. Technology plays an important role in the development of business travel services and there are many options for companies to choose from including online services such as Expedia, Travelocity or Orbitz and traditional travel-management companies. Technology, however, will never replace the need for a travel concierge or business travel planner. The expertise and service provided by professionals of this nature can make a business trip more efficient, profitable and fun.
Why Choose a Corporate Travel Planner?
Asheville Citizen-Times writer Diana Kostigen explains in her recent January 27, 2008 article “Follow These Tips to Make Business Travel More Tolerable†that oftentimes business travelers need assistance in planning, organizing and time managing their trips to various cities. Kostigen quotes Bob Lambert, senior vice president of commercial sales at Avis Budget Group: “Most business travelers don’t have the time or means to familiarize themselves with leisure activities and opportunities once they arrive at their destination,†Lambert says, “In fact, 23 percent of business travelers surveyed said they often wasted free time because they lacked the time and resources to plan in advance.†Asheville, NC has become a hot destination for business travelers of all kinds. It is essential that trained, experienced corporate and business travel planners are available to help manage the myriad of duties required to make business trips simple, efficient and effective. Tips for Choosing the Right Corporate Travel Planner in Asheville, NC
Whether you are coming or going from Asheville and the beautiful mountains of North Carolina, there are basic characteristics you will want in your business travel manager or planner. Here are some tips for making the right choice to suit your personal and business travel needs:
1. Find a corporate travel planner that knows about the location where you will be staying. The key to time management when traveling for business is all about getting around your location efficiently and easily. Make sure you are lodging somewhere centrally located with easy access to highways, airports and entertainment. 2. Choose a business travel planner that understands the importance of having the creature comforts of home on the road. Most executives and business travelers are on the road throughout the year. It is important that when personal needs arise contacting your travel concierge for assistance is trouble-free.3. Hire a corporate travel planner that can help organize your schedule with professionalism and impeccable service. Many business travel planners can help manage and entertain prospective clients and business associates. Your travel concierge can manage your trip itinerary, purchase tickets for special events, make dinner reservations, plan city tours or golf outings, supervise package delivery, reserve office equipment rentals and more.
Asheville Hotels: Where Business Travel Planning Meets Pleasure and Comfort
Many Asheville hotels now offer business travel services to help executives and entrepreneurs make the most out of their trip to the North Carolina Mountains. Hotel chains such as the Courtyard by Marriott and the Holiday Inn Express offer a variety of basic business travel services such as Internet access, meeting rooms and business centers. Asheville also offers a variety of unique, lodging options that cater more specifically to your individual, professional needs. If you are a business traveler that prefers a combination of luxury and practicality, one exceptional Asheville hotel is the Residences at Biltmore. A beautiful condo hotel located near Biltmore Village, the Residences at Biltmore offers comprehensive business travel concierge services in an atmosphere created to make you feel like you’re at home. The Grove Park Inn Resort and Spa is one of Asheville’s oldest hotels. Known for its all-inclusive nature, The Grove Park Inn is almost a city itself. Business travelers can expect to have every luxury at their fingertips. In the heart of downtown Asheville, the Haywood Park Hotel is another great choice. Although the Haywood Park Hotel does not have many on-site business amenities, its location is in the heart of downtown Asheville.Business Travelers Are Going Places
Travel concierges and business trip planners who cater to the corporate, professional market will always be needed in Asheville, North Carolina and in every city across the U.S. Remember to choose a travel planner who is experienced and will pay close attention to detail to ensure a successful and stress-free business trip.
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WTTC Study Calculates Global Business Travel ROI Of 10:1
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A recent report from the World Travel & Tourism Council presented evidence of a “strong connection between spending on business travel and corporate performance” and a positive influence on international trade. Researchers also found that reducing business travel “poses significant business risks,” including losing customers to the competition.
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Change your attitude and travel powerful, May 16, 2009
By Rocco Stats (Michigan USA) –
This review is from: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact (Paperback)
The author is clearly knowledgeable and is succinct & engaging. This small book has two major stories to tell about traveling well. The first is how and why bad things happen, despite your best planning. We are all traveling in an uncertain environment, orchestrated by overworked people and often frustrating fellow travelers. The author explains why many of these difficulties occur and how to handle them; this is expected and welcome. We all become smarter travelers. The second and perhaps the more important message is how to change your attitude to enjoy travel more, and effectively cope with bad surprises and even find opportunity for extra, fun, pleasure and pampering when available. We can’t control the many disasters big & small, but we can switch to clever mode and put ourselves into the best position to get whatever redress is possible; sort of switching to ninja recovery mode. Highly recommended, especially if you tend to blow your top when inevitable messes occur and “service” personnel drop the ball. Mini handbook to become calibrated travelers: smart and in control.
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Packed with useful suggestions that will make trips easier for both novice and veteran travelers., November 1, 2009
By Blaine Greenfield “eclectic reader” (Belle Meade, NJ) –
This review is from: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact (Paperback)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL GUIDE TO POWER TRAVEL by Scott McCartney, the paper’s Middle Seat columnist, is packed with useful suggestions that will make trips easier for both novice and veteran travelers. For example, when it comes to improving your bags’ chances for arriving at your destination, the author recommends: * Always mark your bags distinctly, but not with long ribbons that could get caught in machinery. Use tape, or tightly tied package ribbon, directly on the bag. And don’t rely on big luggage tags-they can get torn off. Baggage has become uniformly boring black these days, and there’s nothing worse than seeing fifty similar black bags on a carousel. Colorful identifying marks not only make it easier for you to spot your bag, but also keep other people from picking up the wrong bag-unless, of course, eight people on your flight all had black bags with yellow ribbons. Yet when it comes to what luggage you should actually buy, even McCartney is confused: * Even the size limits vary among airlines. At American, United, and Delta, the maximum size of carry-on baggage is forty-five linear inches-the length, width, and height dimensions added together. At US Airways and Continental, the maximum is fifty-one inches- 13 percent more. I have a Travelpro roll-abroad bag that I’ve taken all over the world, and every time I’ve raised it to slide it into an overhead bin, it has fit (sometimes snugly in older bins). The bag is twenty-three inches tall, fifteen inches wide, and twelve inches deep, when I don’t unzip the expanders. At its standard size, its measurements total fifty inches-exceeding the rules at the three biggest airlines in the United States, while legal on Continental and US Airways. And airlines wonder why their rules confound travelers? So what’s a traveler to do? Assuming you get on the flight, there’s always this option: * Another jet lag strategy is melatonin to “reset” your body clock when you arrive in a new time zone. Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland in the brain that helps control the body’s internal clock. It’s released by our bodies based on sunlight-nighttime yields the release of more melatonin. If you cheat yourself out of a night, you lose melatonin and your circadian rhythm is disrupted. Taking a small supplemental dose-doctors usually recommend 0.5 mg-about an hour before you go to sleep after arrival, and perhaps a day or two into your trip, helps some people recover quickly. Medical studies on melatonin supplements for jet leg have been inconclusive. It’s worth a try, but your mileage may vary, as they say. POWER TRAVEL does its best job in covering plane trips . . . in addition, there are some good tips for booking both hotel stays and cruises . . . my only disappointment was that there’s not coverage on car rentals.
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11 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
OK, but…, December 21, 2009
By M. Yanovich (Los Angeles, CA USA) –
This review is from: The Wall Street Journal Guide to Power Travel: How to Arrive with Your Dignity, Sanity, and Wallet Intact (Paperback)
The tips in this book are ok, but far from amazing. But my biggest issue with the book is the poor layout. Every single section heading is preceded by the word “Power”… so “bargains” becomes “power bargains” and “Packing” becomes “power packing”. The titles get old fast, but also make it harder to skim the book for information you need quickly. I know it’s just one extra word, but when flipping through at high speed, it’s much easier to find “packing” than “power packing.” Currently, I want information on weather cancellation policies, as I’m stuck in just that situation. I have yet to find the section in the book because the appendix is non-existant (well, they have an appendix, but for resource information, not to give you a detailed breakdown on what’s where in the book), and the chapter headings are too difficult to scan through. I’m sure I’ll find what I need eventually, but for a resource book, this is far less resourceful than its name would imply. That said, there are some good tips in here. It’s just not what I’d hoped for.
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