12 Little-Known Secrets of Low-Cost Business Travel
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, April, 2000 by Robert Selwitz
Budget-priced travel isn't only for the vacationer; it's a practice adopted by the smartest of those grimly determined, frequent-flying, laptop-toting business travelers. It's a body of wisdom, however, of which a great many road warriors are unaware - to their grave detriment, I'm sorry to say. Show me a reckless spender at airports and hotels, and I'll show you a soon-to-be-surprised executive whose company's quarterly earnings (and stock prices) are about to plunge. That's because inattention to cost in one area often reflects foolish financial policies in others. And conversely, some of the most successful of all companies are those that expect their executives to travel smart and therefore frugally.
So how do you save money on travel when you're often (a) forced to fly on short notice, (b) unable to ...