When it comes to business travel, employers and employees both want trips to be seamless. While employers focus on the need for travel and its cost implications, employees have a different set of concerns and responsibilities and concentrate on preparation and execution. “To save time and money, employers should plan ahead, but the reality...
Top Perks Any Hotel Should Offer
While a chocolate on the hotel pillow was enough to make our grandparents happy in their day, we now want more from the hotels we choose… a lot more. Especially for road warriors, the choice of amenities can make or break a hotel. So, what is it we really want from a hotel? Free...
The Top 5 Coolest Airport Lounges
Whether you are a seasoned road warrior or a first-time leisure traveller, air travel can be stressful. Let’s face it: most airports are not exactly an oasis of peace and tranquillity. With long queues of weary travellers, slow Internet, uncomfortable seats and overpriced fast food options, the airport can be a truly nerve-wracking place....
6 Tips To Explore A Destination While On Business
Although the prospect of travelling for business can be frustrating, it doesn’t have to be. It can be unnerving to travel to exciting destinations only to find yourself locked in a boardroom day-in day-out, but even with very limited free time, you can still make the most of your stay and get a true...
How To Make The Most Of Your Frequent Flyer Programme?
One of the few perks business travellers have for being on the road all the time, is that they manage to rack up quite a few miles allowing them to take a family break to an exotic destination for a much more reduced rate than normal. So, it comes as no surprise then that corporate travellers were less...
Corporate Travel Planning: Here’s How We Can Help You
If your travel planning is leading to lost productivity, last-minute expenses and unnecessary stress, you need to partner with a travel management company who will not only take care of all the details surrounding your trip but put your business first. “Without the right attention to detail, unorganised business travel can put the ultimate...
How to Beat Jet Lag
If you are a seasoned road warrior, you have undoubtedly been faced with jet lag at one time or another. Also called desynchronosis and flight fatigue, jet lag is a temporary disorder that causes fatigue and other symptoms as a result of air travel across time zones. It is a circadian rhythm sleep disorder,...
Travel Tech: Our Favourite App for Easy Travel
On the road locally or abroad, business travellers need to stay connected and be able to multitask if they want to remain productive. In a recent study by Amadeus, findings revealed that 87% of travellers use Smartphones while travelling and 61% of business travellers use an app for flight check-in and other travel necessities....
3 Local Venues to Host Your Year-End Function
If your team has been jet-setting all year, racking up their frequent flyer miles and growing ever more creative with their jet lag cures, then it’s safe to assume that when it comes to planning your end-of-year business bash, there’s no place like home. As a proudly South African corporate travel brand, we’re not...
10 Tips to Green Your Conference
Going green is more important today than ever before. As individuals, we have a responsibility to act. As corporates, it’s even more important that we take up the green charge and lead by example. Thompsons Travel strongly encourages and supports the TreadRight Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that promotes sustainable travel. As one of South Africa’s leading corporate...