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10 Gadgets to Help You Travel

by Alison Crabb in Technology, Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Dr. Livingstone cut his way across the jungles of Africa with little more than a shotgun and a shaving kit. You probably ought not to try and sneak a rifle through the airport, but here are some more modern travel gadgets that will come in handy for a boys’ adventure. If you have any other ...

The Ridesharing Economy: Uber and Lyft Business Travel

by Mark Dauner in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

Ridesharing Most everyone, by now, has heard of Uber and Lyft. In theory, the transportation services they provide make total sense from a consumer, employee and employer standpoint. A customer takes out his or her phone, loads the app, requests a ride and within minutes he or she is in a car on the way to the destination. There’s no doubt ...

Qantas Still the World’s Safest Airline

by Theodore Koumelis in Travel. Posted August 4, 2015

AirlineRatings.com the world’s only safety and product rating website has announced its top ten safest airlines for 2013 from the 448 it monitors. Top of the list is Qantas which has a fatality free record in the jet era (since 1951). Making up the top ten with seven stars for safety and in- flight product are ...

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad

by Petra Risk Solutions in Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad: Although kidnapping of Americans abroad gets all the publicity, other risks await business travelers. Here’s what a business manager needs to know before sending an employee overseas. Before Traveling Research. Before a trip abroad, travelers should gain a general understanding of the country’s cultural, economic and political situation. The U.S. State Department issues Consular Information Sheets for every country of the world with ...

Clamping Down on “Apartment-Sharing” Website AirBNB

by Malcolm Seymour in Lodging, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

New York State Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, has made waves in recent months by subpoenaing the popular “apartment-sharing” website AirBNB for information on more than 15,000 of the website’s hosts in New York City. The subpoenas were issued as part of Schneiderman’s campaign to enforce a 2010 New York law that took effect last year, clamping down ...

Cross-Border Telecommuting Checklist

by Don Dowling in Human Resources, Technology, Travel. Posted August 3, 2015

Belgium’s Roger Blanpain, perhaps the world’s preeminent professor of international employment law, once said that “we live in an information society, driven by knowledge in action.…[Services] can be provided via the information highways from anywhere, even from the other side of the globe…We are in a New World. It immediately becomes clear why developments in the globalized, non-material market ...

Helicopters and Evacuations at High Altitude

by admin in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

If you’re responsible for creating your company’s plan to evacuate mobile employees for medical, meteorological, or geopolitical reasons, consider altitude when developing your strategy. You should review a number of factors, but focus especially on your evacuation vehicle of choice—and remember, helicopters don’t fly quite so well at high altitude. Ever since Igor Sikorsky created ...

4 Tips for Travelers in Muslim Countries

by admin in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

Every culture has unique mores and traditions. Travel to a foreign country unaware of these nuances, and you risk inadvertently insulting and/or offending the locals with a word or action that may seem completely innocuous to you. While Islam is the dominant religion in dozens of countries across three distinct continents, most Muslims collectively regard ...

4 Factors to Consider in Nuclear Incidents

by admin in Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

In March 2011, a tsunami crippled Tokyo Electric Power Company’s Fukushima I nuclear power plant. With critical equipment offline, the plant suffered multiple nuclear meltdowns and discharged a substantial amount of radioactive material; this earned it a Level 7 “Major Accident” rating on the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES). After being somewhat contained ...

Reconciling Airbnb with Duty of Care for Corporate Travel

by admin in Lodging, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted July 31, 2015

Worldwide phenomenon Airbnb (and others like VRBO and HomeAway), the website that allows people to rent out lodging spaces (typically privately-owned residences), has established itself as a disruptive force in the hospitality industry. It allows travelers to enjoy unprecedented flexibility at substantially reduced costs, and via a proven profile rating system has earned itself a ...

Travel ( Page 10 )

10 Gadgets to Help You Travel

The Ridesharing Economy: Uber and Lyft Business Travel

Qantas Still the World’s Safest Airline

Ensuring Worker Safety Abroad

Clamping Down on “Apartment-Sharing” Website AirBNB

Cross-Border Telecommuting Checklist

Helicopters and Evacuations at High Altitude

4 Tips for Travelers in Muslim Countries

4 Factors to Consider in Nuclear Incidents

Reconciling Airbnb with Duty of Care for Corporate Travel

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