Whether you are travelling to a conference, to meet newly generated leads, to negotiate an agreement, for a company’s internal meeting or to work remotely for a while, you can relax and enrich your cultural experiences, reinforce bonds with your business acquaintances and expand your business network by adding enjoyable activities to your business trips.

 

Rather than checking e-mails, going for solitary walks, eat on the go or watching TV, you can include cultural and leisure activities after your working day has finished and, if you so choose, share them with friends and family or the people you have met during your trip.

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Depending on the length and destination of your business trip you can:

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   -Enjoy leisure activities during your business trip

   -Increase the length of your business trip and add leisure time before or after

   -Add time to work remotely before or after your business trip

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If you can work remotely, you can also plan trips away at different locations to include your leisure interests and even consider co-working spaces to be able to meet new people during your stay.

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Adding leisure to your business trips (also known as “bleisure”) can benefit both employee and employer and contribute to:

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• Wellbeing and a better work-life balance.

• Having a positive impact on work by making people happier and more relaxed.

• Reducing the amount and frequency of time off.

• A more refreshed and positive outlook on return to the usual working-place.

• Higher productivity and better ideas.

• Increasing job satisfaction.

• Visiting busy locations when they are least crowded.

• Maximise the cost-effectiveness of business trips.

• Making business travelling more sustainable and having less environmental impact.