Your next work trip shouldn't be confined to soulless airports and generic hotels
‘Bleisure’ travel can help improve productivity and staff retention rates. TAKE BUSINESS TRAVEL, add in a dash of leisure and you get the portmanteau of ‘bleisure’ — a rising trend in the travel industry. Work trips, once strictly just for business, are now being blended with extra days to take in sightseeing and downtime. Research from the University of East London (UEL), commissioned by London City Airport, suggested that most people agree that bleisure travel increases their well-being when they return to work, while roughly three in five say such trips contribute to increased productivity. A further survey by the National Car Rental 2019 State of Business Travel, released this month, found that half of millennials leverage bleisure travel as a work perk and book a holiday around a business trip. From my own experience, as both a benefactor and beneficiary of bleisure, it’s a fantastic opportunity for both the employee and employer. If you are considering introducing new travel po