View original post.A recent survey found that frequent business travelers are working harder than ever to extend their stays for pleasure purposes. According to the La Quinta Means Business national survey, 64 percent of business travelers have extended a trip secretly for personal vacation without telling someone, including their coworkers (32 percent), boss (26 percent) and even their own partner …

View original post.Andrew Kitchell has a long history with Airbnb. A tech entrepreneur in San Francisco, Kitchell listed a couch in his apartment on the nascent site in 2009, when it was still called Air Bed and Breakfast. His was one of the first 100 properties to appear on the platform. More than a decade later, with Airbnb having evolved …

View original post.WHY IT RATES: Two major players in the travel industry have come together in a blockbuster deal.—Donald Wood, Breaking News Senior Writer. BCD Travel announced it has acquired Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Adelman Travel Group. Adelman is one of the largest full-service travel management companies in North America. “We’re very proud to bring a prominent TMC like Adelman into the …

View original post.Los Angeles is the best city in the United States for business travel, according to a new study by Fundera, an online marketplace for small business financial solutions. Los Angeles is the number one city in the United States for Business travel. TheCrimsonRibbon/Getty The study reports: According to research by Expedia, more than 60% of travelers extend business …

View original post.FinTech, HealthTech, Insurtech, AgTech, AdTech, FoodTech…the list goes on. Technology is transforming every industry, without exception and these are not so much buzzwords, but the way we can expect to conduct our business moving forward. Research from Saȉd Business School at the University of Oxford claims that PropTech emerged out of the FinTech movement. Yet, while FinTech dominates …

View original post.As nice as it’d be to have the option of catching up on some reading — or sleep — while an autonomous vehicle drives you to work, the real draw of self-driving cars is the idea that they’ll be safer drivers than whoever just cut you off in the exit lane with inches to spare. After all, if …

View original post.No matter the size of your business, saving on travel is important Even if your business can afford not to be frugal about corporate travel, that still doesn’t mean that your management shouldn’t be smart about it. Give your employees the freedom to choose and spend, and you will quickly go bankrupt – but give them a great …

View original post.This morning, a coalition of 11 companies — Aptiv, Audi, Baidu, BMW, Continental, Daimler, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, Here, Infineon, Intel, and Volkswagen — published a whitepaper (“Safety First For Automated Driving”) describing a framework for the development, testing, and validation of “safe” autonomous vehicles. The members claim it’s the broadest representation across the industry to date, and they …

View original post.Autonomous vehicle technology has seen billions in investment, spectacular advancements, and tragic reminders of how far we still have to go. Not since 3D printing has a technology been so lauded, so predicted to imminently change our everyday lives, and so deeply misunderstood. Currently there are no companies that are able to offer a fully autonomous ride in …

View original post.From figuring out what to pack to scheduling an itinerary,, preparing for a business trip can be more stressful and overwhelming than actually going on the trip itself. Alleviating the pain of business travel begins with your preparation. Experienced business travelers begin preparing for trips days before they leave to ensure they are able to put their best …