Business Voyages


Book Description

Business Voyages is not a business fairy tale. Much of it really happened. Don't read this book if you are looking for simple answers and magic formulas. Although the book includes some concepts and techniques anyone should know about people and business, it does not promise success. Business Voyages is problem-oriented, presenting some of the problems encountered by the author and others on their business voyages, while explaining tools and processes anyone can use for analyzing and dealing with inevitable problems that will be encountered in any business world. Business Voyages is also opportunity-oriented, showing the reader how one might embark on a business venture at the right time and place and enjoy the winnings of a successful voyage.




Business and Corporate Travel: Achieve Efficiency and Minimize Stress with The Essential Guide to Business and Corporate Travel - Access Strategies for Maximum Productivity


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For business travelers feeling the pressure from their job and finding it difficult to juggle efficiency and productivity while away, The Essential Guide to Business and Corporate Travel is an absolute must-have. This guide provides you with all the resources you need for successful corporate trips! Whether you are a frequent or occasional business traveler, this guide has everything you need to make the most of your trips. Experienced travelers have compiled invaluable advice on packing efficiently and navigating airports with ease, as well as how to select suitable hotels and manage expenses while away from home. With practical tips designed to minimize stress and maximize productivity during travel days, this book will help streamline your business travels for ultimate success! The Essential Guide to Business and Corporate Travel is the definitive source for tips on how to maximize your efficiency while traveling, such as how best to plan an itinerary, stay connected with important contacts, and sustain vitality during trips. Through this guidebook, you can gain invaluable advice that will have you running a successful business trip in no time! For experienced business travelers and newcomers alike, this book provides everything you need to maximize efficiency and reduce stress during corporate trips. Its practical advice is easy-to-follow, making it the essential guide for anyone looking to excel in the art of business travel. With its comprehensive instruction, this book will be sure to help any reader become a master of navigating corporate journeys with ease!




The Business Voyage


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Successful entrepreneur and adventurer, Jonathan Blain, outlines and explains the actions business leaders and entrepreneurs need to take to achieve business success and personal fulfillment.




Start Your Own Travel Business


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Pack Your Bags…Full of Profits! At over a billion dollars, the travel industry is evolving, creating new trends and new opportunities for eager entrepreneurs like you. Our experts take you step-by-step as you embark on your most exciting adventure—starting a business. Discover success as an independent travel or specialty tour professional offering unique opportunities—in both geography and market niche—that even online discount travel sites can’t compete with. From exotic getaways to adrenaline-pumping extreme tours and time-saving technology to important regulations, learn how to conduct business by land, air, or sea. Plus, access an abundance of resources including important associations, travel-specific software, mailing lists, and in-the-trenches tips from successful travel specialists and tour operators. Covers: Hot travel markets including: business, leisure, adventure, honeymoons, family, men only, women only, seniors, and more Designing and pricing your services and packages Managing your finances Using efficient software systems and mobile technology for daily operations Complying with security regulations for domestic and foreign travel Advertising and promoting online and in print Growing your business From finding your clients to delivering a trip of a lifetime and everything in between, learn what you need to know to become a high-flying success!




A Dictionary of Travel and Tourism Terminology


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This fully revised and updated second edition provides over 7,000 definitions of travel and tourism terminology used throughout the world, highlighting the many differences between US and European usage. It covers all aspects of the tourism industry, including hospitality, transport, and ancillary services. It explains the operating language of the travel industry, acronyms and abbreviations of organizations, associations and trade bodies, IT terms and brand names, and provides website addresses. Entries vary from one-line definitions to 500 word articles, and references are provided for further reading. This new edition contains over 500 new entries and the unique cross referencing system has been extended; for example accessing any entry about business travel leads to over 70 others. It is an essential reference tool for anyone involved in tourism research, and everyone in the travel industry.




Design and Launch an Online Travel Business in a Week


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Love travel? Do you enjoy discovering new adventures, finding the best deals, and making plans? Would you like to work with people around the world from the comfort of home? In the trillion-dollar, worldwide travel and tourism industry, it’s easier than ever to tap into your enthusiasm for travel and turn it into your next paycheck. In just one week, discover how to establish your business, create an attractive and functional website, master online marketing tools, partner with qualified providers, and more! • Design an attractive, multi-functional website using inexpensive, turnkey solutions that require no programming knowledge • Tap into the newest travel trends, and choose your specialty and services • Set policies and procedures that satisfy your and your clients’ needs • Use easy, automated solutions that work 24/7 to handle requests and payments • Drive traffic using search engine optimization, social marketing, and other online marketing techniques • Boost profits by expanding your offerings




Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World


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Trading Companies and Travel Knowledge in the Early Modern World explores the links between trade, empire, exploration, and global information trans>fer during the early modern period. By charting how the leaders, members, employees, and supporters of different trading companies gathered, pro>cessed, employed, protected, and divulged intelligence about foreign lands, peoples, and markets, this book throws new light on the internal uses of information by corporate actors and the ways they engaged with, relied on, and supplied various external publics. This ranged from using secret knowl>edge to beat competitors, to shaping debates about empire, and to forcing Europeans to reassess their understandings of specific environments due to contacts with non-European peoples. Reframing our understanding of trading companies through the lens of travel literature, this volume brings together thirteen experts in the field to facilitate a new understanding of how European corporations and empires were shaped by global webs of information exchange




Plunkett's E-commerce & Internet Business Almanac 2006


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A ready-reference guide to the E-Commerce & Internet Business! Complete profiles of over 400 of the largest, most successful corporations in all facets of the Internet sector. Our industry analysis covers B2C, B2B, online financial services, online travel and Internet access and usage trends.




Overbooked


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"Travel is no longer a past-time but a colossal industry, arguably one of the biggest in the world and second only to oil in importance for many poor countries. One out of 12 people in the world are employed by the tourism industry which contributes $6.5 trillion to the world's economy. To investigate the size and effect of this new industry, Elizabeth Becker traveled the globe. She speaks to the Minister of Tourism of Zambia who thinks licensing foreigners to kill wild animals is a good way to make money and then to a Zambian travel guide who takes her to see the rare endangered sable antelope. She travels to Venice where community groups are fighting to stop the tourism industry from pushing them out of their homes, to France where officials have made tourism their number one industry to save their cultural heritage; and on cruises speaking to waiters who earn $60 a month--then on to Miami to interview their CEO. Becker's sharp depiction reveals travel as a product; nations as stewards. Seeing the tourism industry from the inside out, the world offers a dizzying range of travel options but very few quiet getaways"--