10 websites to help book great hotels
There are so many hotel websites available for Assistants to use when booking business travel for their Executive. If you don't work with a travel management company, where do you even start? Here are ten websites to help book great hotels. This list covers everything you need to search and [...]
20 tools to help manage your Exec’s travel plans
Just think how much time you spend organising travel for your Executive or your team? It's a lot, right? Maybe 20% of your week? Maybe more? That time will be taken up by meticulously planning trips with the hope that nothing will go wrong while their Executive is away from [...]
Managing a travel crisis
If your Executive travels regularly you will both be used to travel delays and disruptions, sometimes those delays are easy to manage and sometimes they are much bigger than expected and can cause chaos around the world. I was working as an Assistant when the Iceland Volcano erupted back in 2010 [...]
Technology of the week: Foursquare City Guides
Today's technology of the week: Foursquare city guides. Here are all the details... What is Foursquare City Guides? I think most of you would have heard of Foursquare but, if not, it is a website and app that brings together restaurant recommendations, hotel picks, must-see places and loads of other [...]
Tech of the week: Get The Flight Out
Today’s Technology of the week: Get The Flight Out. Here are all the details… […]
Technology of the week: Hipmunk
Today’s Technology of the week: Hipmunk. Here are all the details… What is Hipmunk? Hipmunk is a website and app that helps you plan travel from searching for flights and hotels to airbnb apartments, ground transport and everything in between. What does it do? There are a lot of search engine based [...]
Tech of the week: Packing Pro
What is Packing Pro Packing Pro is, very simply, an app that helps you pack for your next trip. It is £2.29 from the Apple Store. […]
How can you help your Executive with travel delays?
Picture the scene. You’ve planned your Executive’s business trip to a tee. It is perfect. The itinerary is flawless, the hotels are top notch, the ground transport has been planned to whizz your Exec around the city. You are confident your Executive will be able to cope [...]