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Who are the business travelers and how do they behave?

Since the earliest trade routes between cities, there have been business travelers. For millennia, there has been a steady change in business travel behavior and some of the most rapid change has occurred within the last 16 years. From web-based researching tools being little better than hit or miss to advanced booking options that have dramatically changed the world of travel, to travel agencies that moved online and self-booking tools plus a slew of other advancements, the world for corporate travelers has changed forever. 

So who are the business travelers of the 21st century?

Modern business travelers span all age ranges but one of the largest segments of corporate travelers are the Millennials . For Millennials who barely can remember a day without the internet and who became adults during the advent of online travel agencies, self-booking tools, and smartphones, their concept of business travel is helping to shape the future of travel.

Something that spans all generations is the culture of business travelers and that culture is changing in surprising new ways.

One of the ways that the future of corporate travelers has changed is with the use of technology . Online booking tools have taken the world by storm and have supplanted some travel agents as the primary agent by which people find their flights. However, travel agents are not without their purpose anymore. One of the drawbacks of a near infinite amount of information is that it can begin to clutter your options. This is just as true for individuals as it is for corporate travel.

Many businesses to spare themselves the hassle of paying an employee to book their own flights and accommodations will either act as the employee’s agent or pay an agency to set everything up. This allows for the corporate executives to have a professional level of care for each step of their business travel.

Another way that technology has changed corporate travel behavior is in its ubiquity . It is truly everywhere and because of that , its benefits can be applied at every stage of travel. For instance, you can book a flight and hotel on your phone, scan a digital plane ticket on your tablet, read emails and draft business plans with in-flight  Wi-Fi, use Wi-Fi calling or texting on location to have your ground transportation ready, use a smartphone app to work out the exchange rates, translate languages, plan your schedule, automatically update you on any changes, and even pay for portions of your trip digitally. At every step , there is either a device or an app to assist you along the way.

But what does the future of this kind of life – with travel and technology syncing – look like?

It could look a lot like an app concept that was brought up at a recent interview between Marriott International’s global brand officer Brian King and Skift. In the interview , Brian King described a possible future app that would be like an intelligent automated assistant for people coming to a Marriott hotel or any of their other organizations. The idea is that you have a file open with them once you book, and the app begins to chart your progress. If your plane gets delayed or is arriving early, the app automatically updates your ground transportation so you are not waiting between exiting the airport and getting picked up.

If you come in late, the app lets the hotel know and if a room better suited to your preferences becomes available due to the delay, you may get an upgrade to something more reflective of your corporate stature. Going to be really late? This app could note that the driver is coming directly to your hotel so hotel staff could automatically be sent to make sure your room has a treat for you or even contact you if you would like room service to have a meal in your room ready for your arrival.

Although this kind of app does not yet exist, each of its core elements does and it will not be long before every corporate traveler has their own unique travel profile updated with preferences of food and lodging saved. The app will also be able to keep track of his or her travel progress to ensure a perfect trip every time.

Another common trait of the 21st-century  travelers is that they make extraordinary use of the shared economy . Companies that cater to travelers like Airbnb and Uber have seen nearly double growth in the summer and they are just an indication of a much wider concept that business travelers like the auto booking tools but ultimately they also enjoy the human experience and would rather have a home and a private driver than a hotel or a taxi.

This idea of the shared economy, which has become very popular with younger corporate travelers, is changing the face of the industry. This is partly because it allows for greater convenience , which is one of the single greatest driving forces behind all business travel behavior.

So who are the business  travelers?

They are the most technologically savvy, socially driven, shared economy smart travelers in the world today. They can go anywhere in the world utilizing apps and smartphones, no longer limited to places they have been before or languages they know already. The modern corporate traveler is truly a man or woman of the world.

Read also  Corporate Travel Planners: who are they and how can they help you .

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• 1 High-travel jobs
• 2 Get around
• 4.1 Data security
• 4.2 Before you travel
• 4.3 On the road
• 5 Stay safe
• 6 Stay healthy

Travel for secular "pleasurable" purposes is a fairly recent concept. For most of human history, people either traveled for religious reasons or out of economic necessity, hence business travel may well be the oldest form of travel. This article deals with this concept.

High-travel jobs [ edit ]

This list contains jobs which intend the employee to be based in their home country, in contrast to working abroad (e.g. digital nomads who work outside their home country, may periodically relocate, but the job itself doesn't entail a lot of travelling)

• Sales is the classic high-travel occupation, so much so that "traveling salesman" has become a bit of a cliché. Consulting can also mean high travel, but on a somewhat less intense scale, as individual consulting gigs can sometimes last weeks or months and can easily turn into long-distance commuting. In general, any very specialized job, where customers are few but can afford to (or have no choice but to) fly in experts will tend to mean high travel.
• Transportation workers such as truck drivers, bus drivers, locomotive engineers and ship crews see many places through work. The airline industry also offers good travel opportunities. Aside from the obvious pilots and cabin staff, maintenance crew and sales & marketing people may also fly extensively, and even desk job employees can often fly for free or very cheaply using space-available seats. The quality of accommodation varies a lot, and free time on a destination might be short.
• Academia , including research, studies and teaching, also offers international travel. Some academic subjects that naturally contain travel for field research , are aerospace engineering, anthropology, astronomy , archaeology , biology (including ornithology ), civil engineering, geology, geography, linguistics and meteorology. Scientists are usually the only people who go to next-to-impossible destinations , such as exclusion zones . In addition, researchers also occasionally travel to attend academic conferences . See studying abroad and science tourism .
• Language experts can often get temporary jobs or assignments abroad, as interpreters, translators and teachers (but they may also be stationed abroad for long periods, and not effectively travel much). See teaching English .
• Military personnel may get to work abroad, though this depends on the country and your position. "Join the Navy, See the World" is a classic slogan. Going abroad in uniform does not necessarily mean going to war ; many missions abroad are for training, observation, logistics, or peacekeeping.
• Religious personnel such as chaplains and missionaries typically travel to places far from home. The assignment is usually combined with humanitarian work and proselytizing.
• Journalism (especially foreign correspondence and photojournalism ) and writing might include travel. This is however a high-competition business with poor job security.
• Doctors and nurses , and other health personnel can work on board ships, or in isolated communities. In some countries a mandatory stint in some far-off region is actually a required part of your job-training.
• Domestic work is a common migrant job; while no formal skills are required, it is usually poorly paid. While some domestic workers are hired locally, others are recruited internationally, and yet others follow their employer around. Au pair service is an interesting way for young people to see a foreign country; usually without a proper wage.
• Entertainers frequently travel for work, such as actors traveling to movie sets on location or to attend film festivals, as well as touring musicians.

Get around [ edit ]

Business travellers can in many cases afford high-cost options, for a speedy and comfortable journey. See transportation for comparison between vehicles.

• For a VIP in a hurry, general aviation such as a business jet or a helicopter might save some time.
• Rail travel gives a fast and comfortable ride on distances up to 1,000 km (620 mi), if available. First class (or in some cases even a specially named class "above first") is often aimed at business travelers. Level of first-class standard varies between operators, but usually allows better dining and paperwork on board than the airlines. Furthermore Wifi service on trains is becoming more and more common among major long distance operators. This means you can get more work done in the same travel time than on a plane. Many rail operators offer silent compartments, which is good if you want to work concentrated and in silence. However, do keep in mind that talking on your phone is a major no-no in silent compartments. High speed trains tend to beat planes in market share if their travel time is 3:30 h or less. DB (among others) has recognized this and offers an "ICE Sprinter" – aimed at business travellers – on select routes that makes limited or no intermediate stops to reach or beat this time.
• Public transportation rarely guarantees good comfort, but can be practical and affordable in a big city.
• Driving makes a traveller independent, but also tired. Usually the only practical option in the countryside, and if you don't bring your own, renting a car can be an option. Driving and parking in an unfamiliar city can however be difficult. In addition, things like disorderly traffic or inability to read street signs in the local script may make hiring a car with a driver the best alternative.
• Taxis and rideshares provide door-to-door service, in the best case with a helpful and well-informed driver. Can be everything from a tuk-tuk to a stretch limousine, depending on budget.
• Bus travel is not always the fastest road transport; some long-range buses are however fast and comfortable enough to appeal also to those with a good budget. They can be a good option in some countries such as Japan, Mexico and Sweden, where good quality buses from airports stop directly at major hotels, or for onward travel to another city or town from the airport. If your business operates on the proverbial shoestring (or if you are subject to the oft-quoted sadistic expense account manager) you might find yourself on a bus more often than not.

Sleep [ edit ]

While business travellers tend to stay at hotels , some organizations offer private accommodation in different sizes and comfort levels. Workers who spend much time at a destination might consider renting or buying a second home .

Cope [ edit ]

Business travellers might often find themselves on their own. See travelling alone .

Data security [ edit ]

If your laptop, smartphone or usb drive is stolen or your phone calls or data connections are monitored, you may leak business secrets or confidential information (human rights activists may be targeted). As the risks may be bigger when travelling, and certainly are more difficult to control abroad, you should check what procedures to follow with the relevant department of your employer. If you do not have such resources, make sure you understand the most important risks yourself.

The worst problems may not come from criminals but from authorities (unless you trust they are not involved in industrial espionage, and that they do not use confidential information they recover). To lessen the problem of border authorities possibly wanting to get access to your devices, you might want to travel with a "clean" laptop, downloading any secret documents you need afterwards, via a secure connection (VPN, SSH or similar). You may still need your keys (e.g. to check there is no man-in-the-middle when making secure connections), but at least some of them are public, and they are smaller anyway, easier to hide in innocent looking places. You might have to check that the computer has not been tampered with (a bootable read-only medium can confirm integrity unless also the BIOS is "upgraded"). If your destination country does not allow secure connections across the border, you have a problem. Before you return, upload and delete the sensitive information. Make sure the files are truly deleted, not only deleted from your view.

If your devices may be stolen by people interested in your secrets, any such information should be encrypted, so that it cannot be recovered without your passwords or keys (encrypted keys can be kept elsewhere so that you do not lose the information by forgetting your password). Check also the risk for unencrypted temporary files and paging areas. Encryption works best when your laptop or smartphone is turned entirely off (used content will be in cleartext in memory, and may be copied as such to the disk at hibernation).

If you are traveling with sensitive information, consider keeping your computers and any sensitive documents with you at all times. Locking them in a hotel safe provides only protection against thefts of opportunity. The hotel staff have master keys or master codes to open all the hotel safes in all the rooms. This is necessary for normal operations, in case a guest accidentally forgets the code or departs without remembering to empty the safe, but it means that your computers and other documents could be removed from the safe, copied, and returned there without your knowledge.

Few people know what information a smartphone keeps, so cleaning it for travel and restoring it across the border or when returning home might not be feasible. Instead bring a clean phone bought for the purpose, and copy just the information you need and are ready to leak from your ordinary phone.

Before you travel [ edit ]

• Find a good travel agent . Booking online can be cheap and easy, but making changes later can be difficult and expensive. A good travel agent or your company's travel provider can be worth their weight in gold when you need to react to changes.
• If you are a frequent business visitor of an APEC-participating country, consider apply for an APEC Business Travel Card , in which card holders are able to travel without visa to specified countries on your card and enjoy expedited border crossing.
• Have a packing routine . Invest in a good carry-on bag and learn to pack enough to survive a week with it. Figure out the optimal way to pack it, because when everything has its place, it's easy and fast to pack. If you often travel on short notice, consider keeping the bag packed and ready to go.
• Mileage, mileage, mileage . You probably know you can get miles from flying — but you can also get them from staying at hotels and renting cars, and if you pay by credit card, you can get more miles yet again. Familiarize yourself with the programs at places you visit regularly and work out how to maximize your benefit. Dedicated sites like FlyerTalk are useful for working out the loopholes and finding the latest promotions.

On the road [ edit ]

• Learn the language . Even a few words will smooth your way and you can pick up the survival-level basics of most languages in a few weeks if you take some time to study.
• Work out . Most business-level hotels have a gym and any hotel's front desk will be happy to advise you of a good jogging route nearby. In some places, Wikivoyage do have mentions about different parks that may be near your hotel, which can make for a good place to go jogging in. It's listed under "Do" or "See" in the destination article. If you are a member of a gym at home they may be part of a chain with multiple locations (24 Hour/California Fitness, Planet Fitness, LA Fitness/Esporta, Orange Theory, YMCA, YWCA etc) or affiliations (Gold's, etc) with other gyms in different locales. You may be able access an affiliated gym for free or for a low cost with your current gym membership. Ask before leaving home.
• Get out of the hotel . It's all too easy to sit in your hotel room, order overpriced room service, and grumble about how miserable the dump you're in is. Ask a local (or check Wikivoyage!) for a recommendation and go for dinner or a drink elsewhere (which may be less expensive than the hotel dining room, bar or room service) and sightsee.
• Find a local friend . The Internet is full of friend-finding and online dating services, and many people will gladly take a visitor for a tour of the sights, even if you're only in town for a day or two — just offer to return the favor when they come your way.

Stay safe [ edit ]

Business travellers may visit places that the average tourist could find dangerous. The general advice in Staying safe and Arriving in a new city still applies, only it's much more important for business travel: a scruffy backpacker may draw interest because he probably has a wad of cash stashed somewhere, but a guy in a suit toting a laptop case, speaking into his late-model cellphone while signing bills with his platinum credit card is a far more enticing target . Consider the following precautions:

• Pre-arrange your transportation . From the airport, hotel pickup services are safe and can often be expensed. Follow hotel or partner recommendations for local transportation.
• Meet-and-greet services can be worthwhile when traveling to dodgy locales, especially for the first time, so enquire discreetly at your hotel. For fees starting from US$50 or so, you'll be met at the plane door and whisked through immigration and customs with a minimum of hassle.
• Backup all your data. Before leaving, and frequently while on the road. Applies both to laptop and mobile/iPads/other gadgets with user data. Buying a replacement for hardware is frequently much easier than dealing with lost data.
• Be careful about sensitive data . It is an old truism, but true nonetheless: The weakest link in any security is a human being. If you happen to travel around with any type of storage device/paper with sensitive information on it – or a device with which you can access such information – this is most likely worth more than all your other possessions. Guard it accordingly. A cavalier attitude towards data security can get you fired or worse.

Stay healthy [ edit ]

Check your travel and health insurance before you go. It can cover travel-related illnesses, including treatment in other countries and medical evacuation. Many companies provide this to their employees as standard, but check nevertheless.

Visiting a new region or country may cause dietary reactions , either from different levels of sanitation or just your body adjusting to a new diet. Try getting accustomed to new food slowly over time, and avoid tap water as well as washed salads, especially in low-income countries.

Jet lag is a common side effect of business travel over different time zones. Allow some days to get used to the new time zone if possible (i.e. arrive Saturday morning for working on Monday). Avoid activities such as driving until you are well and fit.

Each country has different regulations regarding pharmacy drugs . For example it is very difficult to buy full-strength paracetamol (acetaminophen) or other pain killers from a pharmacy in China, requiring a time-consuming and expensive visit to a medical facility. German pharmacies will refuse an asthma inhaler without a prescription, even if you are gasping for breath. You can usually bring the basics in with you. Where Cannabis is legal for recreational or medicinal use, it is almost always not allowed for foreigners to partake, at least in theory.

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It's time for companies to rethink their approach to business travel.

The business landscape has rapidly changed since the pandemic, with remote work and hybrid models becoming more prominent. Despite these workforce shifts, one aspect remains constant: business travel.

Business travel is back in full force following an expected dip during the pandemic. Corporate travel budgets are returning to pre-pandemic levels, and more companies are planning budget expansions. A Morgan Stanley survey revealed that over two-thirds of companies with under $1 billion in annual revenue anticipated increased travel budgets in the coming year.

The Impact of Frequently Flying

Frequent travel can significantly impact an individual's physical, emotional, and mental well-being . While companies prioritize conventional risk management areas, they often overlook the personal well-being of their travelers. From maintaining a healthy diet to proper sleep and various emotional components such as loneliness and separation, business travelers encounter numerous potential long-term health disruptions that non-traveling employees don't face.

Business travelers had higher claims than non-travelers for all health conditions across the board, along with a higher likelihood of stress-related disorders, as reported in the Harvard Business Review . Lastly, as shared in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine , frequent business travel adversely affects overall body composition, leading to risks of obesity and various other ailments if left unmanaged, such as heart disease and diabetes.

More and more companies are prioritizing workplace wellness due to factors such as obesity's $400 billion impact on companies . Corporate travel wellness programs are a necessary part of the equation as well. As you look to implement a modern and more robust travel wellness program, start with these two areas:

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When attracting and retaining the best people, more and more employees choose lifestyle over salary . It's not out of laziness. It's out of a desire for work-life integration. With this in mind, organizations can embrace employees' desires through bleisure . Organizations can promote work-life integration and rejuvenation by allowing employees to combine business trips with leisure activities.

Implementing flexible travel policies that enable team members to extend their trips on the back end is a way to improve employee satisfaction, productivity, and retention rates. Research shows that 89% of business travelers wanted to add a private holiday to their business trips. Traveling for work is energetically demanding, physically and mentally. A few extra days for leisure allow team members to process their trip, recharge, and return at total capacity.

Treat Your Employees Like Athletes

Just as professional athletes require careful management of their physical, emotional, and mental well-being , so do business travelers. Business travel is a stressor with a high burnout rate and decreased performance across the board. As you revamp your corporate wellness travel program, consider your approach to business travel as a sports team thinks of traveling to play an away game.

As you prepare the company playbook for healthier and more productive business traveling, consider the following:

• Providing support for handling jet lag
• Offering advice on maintaining healthy sleep and nutritional habits away from home
• Investing in business class and non-stop flights
• Providing hotels that have conducive amenities for optimal well-being
• Ensuring team members reside in centrally located hotels or apartment hotels

Business travel isn't going anywhere anytime soon, as the average business traveler takes roughly 6.8 trips per year, with business travel in the U.S. from domestic and international travelers also accounting for $387 billion in annual revenue, according to research shared over at Zippia . Incorporating travel wellness initiatives isn't merely an expense; it's an investment in employees' health and performance.

As organizations revamp their corporate travel programs, prioritizing their travelers' well-being is paramount. By implementing strategies to support travel wellness, companies can ensure that their employees remain healthy, engaged, and effective representatives of their companies.

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An international team of researchers found that heavy rains had intensified in the region, though they couldn’t say for sure how much climate change was responsible.

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Scenes of flood-ravaged neighborhoods in one of the planet’s driest regions stunned the world this month. Heavy rains in the United Arab Emirates and Oman submerged cars, clogged highways and killed at least 21 people. Flights out of Dubai’s airport, a major global hub, were severely disrupted.

The downpours weren’t a total surprise — forecasters had anticipated the storms several days earlier and issued warnings. But they were certainly unusual.

Here’s what to know.

Heavy rain there is rare, but not unheard-of.

On average, the Arabian Peninsula receives a scant few inches of rain a year, although scientists have found that a sizable chunk of that precipitation falls in infrequent but severe bursts, not as periodic showers. These rains often come during El Niño conditions like the ones the world is experiencing now.

U.A.E. officials said the 24-hour rain total on April 16 was the country’s largest since records there began in 1949 . And parts of the nation had already experienced an earlier round of thunderstorms in March.

Oman, with its coastline on the Arabian Sea, is also vulnerable to tropical cyclones. Past storms there have brought torrential rain, powerful winds and mudslides, causing extensive damage.

Global warming is projected to intensify downpours.

Stronger storms are a key consequence of human-caused global warming. As the atmosphere gets hotter, it can hold more moisture, which can eventually make its way down to the earth as rain or snow.

But that doesn’t mean rainfall patterns are changing in precisely the same way across every part of the globe.

In their latest assessment of climate research , scientists convened by the United Nations found there wasn’t enough data to have firm conclusions about rainfall trends in the Arabian Peninsula and how climate change was affecting them. The researchers said, however, that if global warming were to be allowed to continue worsening in the coming decades, extreme downpours in the region would quite likely become more intense and more frequent.

Hot oceans are a big factor.

An international team of scientists has made a first attempt at estimating the extent to which climate change may have contributed to April’s storms. The researchers didn’t manage to pin down the connection precisely, though in their analysis, they did highlight one known driver of heavy rain in the region: above-normal ocean temperatures.

Large parts of the Indian, Pacific and Atlantic Oceans have been hotter than usual recently, in part because of El Niño and other natural weather cycles, and in part because of human-induced warming .

When looking only at El Niño years, the scientists estimated that storm events as infrequent as this month’s delivered 10 percent to 40 percent more rain to the region than they would in a world that hadn’t been warmed by human activities. They cautioned, however, that these estimates were highly uncertain.

“Rainfall, in general, is getting more extreme,” said Mansour Almazroui, a climate scientist at King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and one of the researchers who contributed to the analysis.

The analysis was conducted by scientists affiliated with World Weather Attribution, a research collaboration that studies extreme weather events shortly after they occur. Their findings about this month’s rains haven’t yet been peer reviewed, but are based on standardized methods .

The role of cloud seeding isn’t clear.

The U.A.E. has for decades worked to increase rainfall and boost water supplies by seeding clouds. Essentially, this involves shooting particles into clouds to encourage the moisture to gather into larger, heavier droplets, ones that are more likely to fall as rain or snow.

Cloud seeding and other rain-enhancement methods have been tried around the world, including in Australia, China, India, Israel, South Africa and the United States. Studies have found that these operations can, at best, affect precipitation modestly — enough to turn a downpour into a bigger downpour, but probably not a drizzle into a deluge.

Still, experts said pinning down how much seeding might have contributed to this month’s storms would require detailed study.

“In general, it is quite a challenge to assess the impact of seeding,” said Luca Delle Monache, a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, Calif. Dr. Delle Monache has been leading efforts to use artificial intelligence to improve the U.A.E.’s rain-enhancement program.

An official with the U.A.E.’s National Center of Meteorology, Omar Al Yazeedi, told news outlets that the agency didn’t conduct any seeding during the latest storms. His statements didn’t make clear, however, whether that was also true in the hours or days before.

Mr. Al Yazeedi didn’t respond to emailed questions from The New York Times, and Adel Kamal, a spokesman for the center, didn’t have further comment.

Cities in dry places just aren’t designed for floods.

Wherever it happens, flooding isn’t just a matter of how much rain comes down. It’s also about what happens to all that water once it’s on the ground — most critically, in the places people live.

Cities in arid regions often aren’t designed to drain very effectively. In these areas, paved surfaces block rain from seeping into the earth below, forcing it into drainage systems that can easily become overwhelmed.

One recent study of Sharjah , the capital of the third-largest emirate in the U.A.E., found that the city’s rapid growth over the past half-century had made it vulnerable to flooding at far lower levels of rain than before.

Omnia Al Desoukie contributed reporting.

Raymond Zhong reports on climate and environmental issues for The Times. More about Raymond Zhong