Tips For Business Travellers In India

By Author: Aliasgar Merchant
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Be it chasing flight schedules, arranging for hotel accommodations, navigating your way to an entirely new location or getting acclimatized to the local culture and lingo – business travel can surely turn out to be a hectic affair.

While business travellers need to focus on the tasks at hand, i.e., to attend to matters related to business, planning the travel in an organized manner can help one avoid a lot of heartburn.

Here are some useful tips for business travellers that would help them focus more on business and worry less about travel.

Make a Checklist

This might sound basic but again the most complex of problems can be solved by the simplest of solutions. Get a basic checklist ready a day before your scheduled departure. The checklist should ideally include all that you would need to take care of plus the stuff you need to carry before you travel.

Travel Schedule

Arranging for the respective travel options (by rail, road or air) is without doubt the most important aspect of your travel planning. Most business travellers prefer an early morning departure for their respective ...
... destinations and late evening arrival back home if it happens to be a one-day business trip. An early start gives one the entire day to finish the task at hand before they return back home. One doesn’t need to stress too much over this if it happens to be an extended trip that would last a couple of days.

Accommodation

The next big item on any business traveller’s itinerary. While it’s easy to book yourself a place to stay amongst a host of plush business hotels in Bangalore or cost efficient business hotels in Mumbai and other major metros, you might still need to spend some time zeroing down on the best possible business hotel based on your budget, your personal preference, the hotel’s proximity to the nearest airport or railhead and last but not the least the kind of service you can expect from the hotel. Do a bit of research on your own or ask around for recommendations from friends or associates.

Travel Related Documents

Always keep your travel related documents and other important credentials such as your passport and ID proof some place handy and easily accessible. Also if you happen to be one of those forgetful or preoccupied lots, it would help if you keep these somewhere secure so that you don’t misplace them.

Local Information

Depending on your familiarity with the location and the nature of your trip, it would definitely be worthwhile to know more about the place where you are heading to and the regions lingo and culture.

Do keep an eye on regional news to check for any political or local unrest that might potentially jeopardize your travel plans.

Get yourself a local guide or a point of contact if possible who can help you with local travel and communicate with locals if you have a language issue.