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Practically Perfect PA
JANUARY 22, 2019
If your Executive travels regularly you will both be used to travel delays and disruptions, sometimes those delays are easy to manage and sometimes they are much bigger than expected and can cause chaos around the world. I was working as an Assistant when the Iceland Volcano erupted back in 2010 causing widespread travel disruptions around […].
Practically Perfect PA
JUNE 4, 2019
Just think how much time you spend organising travel for your Executive or your team? Core Skills Featured Travel admin administrators assistants EA Executive Assistant Key Skills Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual AssistantIt’s a lot, right? Maybe 20% of your week? Maybe more? That time will be taken up by meticulously planning trips with the hope that nothing will go wrong while their Executive is away from the office. But from missed […].
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Practically Perfect PA
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Your boss comes to you and tells you that you need to book the travel for 100 people for a Winter getaway, and it needs to be done by next week… eek! Core Skills Featured Sponsored posts Travel admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual AssistantWhere do you even start? Well, there are two options: 1. Book it yourself. You could always waste several hours searching multiple websites […].
Practically Perfect PA
SEPTEMBER 11, 2018
Core Competencies Featured Sponsored posts Travel admin administrators assistants business travel Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Tasks Virtual AssistantSome of the following scenarios will probably sound all too familiar to you in your current position: Your Executive Team and colleagues take the liberty of booking their flights and accommodation themselves without much thought for the time it takes to get a business trip organised.
Small Business Labs
NOVEMBER 23, 2021
Fora is a new platform that provides full and part-time independent travel agents with the tools needed to run their travel business. Content creators who focus on travel are a large creator economy segment.
Practically Perfect PA
MAY 11, 2016
A few weeks ago I asked you to send in your best travel tips – and well loads of you did! Here are your business travel tips… Travel Apps . Sign yourself and your boss up for “Tripit Pro” travel App. Automated trip sharing ability – great for group/team travel. A single dashboard view of all travel – PA’s can see at a glance all travel plans made for their executive(s). Destination Management .
Practically Perfect PA
FEBRUARY 28, 2018
Business travel can be a stressful experience. Core Skills Featured Travel admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual AssistantUnfamiliar surroundings, time and performance pressures, networking in a second or third language, and a confused body clock all contribute to rising stress levels. We look at simple techniques that help you get the basics right, so you can keep stress to a minimum.
Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 3, 2018
Did you know that business travel is a $1.3 And that in most companies, travel spend is often the second largest expenditure after salaries? Business travel spend in general is massive, but it doesn’t stop there; the amount of time spent organising business travel is substantial too. Core Skills Featured Sponsored posts Travel admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant TravelPerk
Practically Perfect PA
MAY 19, 2015
First up we have Assist Travel taking place on Friday 4th September 2015 from 10am to 4pm in London. Why should you attend Assist Travel? Choosing a supplier for your office is not easy, particuarly when it comes to business travel. Assistants have to navigate their corporate travel policy while ensuring their Executives have a smooth business trip while relying on suppliers to make that happen. Travel best practice. Travel technology. Travel trends.
Practically Perfect PA
JUNE 15, 2016
With Assist Travel just a few month’s away, I thought I would share everything that I have been working on behind the scenes. We really do have world-class speakers talking all thing business travel. Before I go into more detail on all that stuff, I thought I’d firstly refresh your memories and talk a little bit about why I think you should come along to Assist Travel. Why should you attend Assist Travel? The Assist Travel Programme.
Practically Perfect PA
JUNE 27, 2019
Managing travel can be a headache. You might still be writing long emails back and forth to your travel agent, wasting time searching for the best deals yourself, or having to wait for your travellers to send you the booking options they want. Every time they travel! Core Skills Featured Travel admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Key Skills Office manager PA Personal Assistant TravelPerk Virtual Assistant
Practically Perfect PA
JULY 23, 2015
Organising business travel can take up a big chunk of our time with most assistants booking complex travel on numerous occasions throughout the year. Here are my top ten tips for travelling assistants. Remember you are still going to have to look after your manager so make sure your trip is hassle free. You will be spending quite a bit of time with your manager, which you might not be used to so think of a few topics you can use for small talk.
Practically Perfect PA
JULY 15, 2015
With Assist Travel coming up in September in London I wanted to share one of our most popular blogs with you – The Ultimate Travel Itinerary. A well organised travel itinerary is an essential service that assistants can provide for their managers. Think about all the different bits of paper you have to keep with you – tickets, hotel details, travel guides. One of my directors travelled from Sydney to Tokyo on the same trip. Assist Travel.
Practically Perfect PA
APRIL 5, 2016
Business travel was a pretty clear winner. From this Assist Travel was born. We ran our first conference and exhibition for business travel booking assistants last September and I’m very excited to announce that we will be running Assist Travel again this year. The aim of Assist Travel. The aims of Assist Travel are three fold. Firstly, to reduce the amount of money that you guys spend on business travel. Delegates at Assist Travel 2015.
Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 7, 2016
At the recent Assist Travel event we were lucky to have Tae Lee, the founder and CEO of Travo talk to our delegates about the future of business travel and the millennial traveller. I just want to give you a bit more of an introduction to the video.here is what Tae covered in his session: A new generation of business travellers are quickly becoming a force to be reckoned with. So how should Assistants react to their Executives: Travelling more often.
Small Business Labs
DECEMBER 17, 2019
It covers the travel, dining, and wellness industries from a business perspective. The recently released their 10 Business Travel Trends for 2020. Travelers Demand an End-to-End Experience. Bleisure Travel is the New Black. Rethinking Corporate Travel Expenses.
Practically Perfect PA
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
I don’t know about you but I have spent hours arranging and then rearranging travel for my Executives. It takes up a huge amount of time and can be incredibly complex especially if they are travelling to a number of destinations with connecting flights and a host of visa requirements. It is quite common now to have help with travel arrangements as most companies do employ an outside supplier to book flights, hotels and car hire. Which corporate travel agency should you use?
Practically Perfect PA
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
On Friday 9th September we held our second Assist Travel event at The Grange Tower Bridge and from the feedback we received it looks like everyone had a thoroughly good day. After spending quite a bit of time shaping the programme and finding the right speakers I was really pleased with the content which gave lots of practical support for assistants booking business travel. Stress Free Speedy Travel. Lara Morgan, Serial Entrepreneur and extensive business traveller.
Practically Perfect PA
JULY 25, 2018
Travel Counsellors is an award-winning independent travel company that’s seeing increasing growth in its corporate travel division due to clients recognising the benefits of having their own personal travel manager available to them 24/7 when required. The company’s Global Sales Director Jim Eastwood responds to emerging trends in corporate travel and explores what matters to […].
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 29, 2018
We first reported on bleisure travel , which is the the blending of business and leisure travel, back in 2015. A According to the folks at the expense reporting and management firm, SAP Concur, it continues to gain popularity. The Word We Love to Hate is Gaining Popularity Across the Globe : according to new SAP Concur travel and expense data gathered between January 2017 and December 2017.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 17, 2011
A well organised travel itinerary is an essential service that assistants can provide for their managers. Think about all the different bits of paper you have to keep with you – tickets, hotel details, travel guides. Well along with the usual stresses of travelling your boss also has to attend meetings and act professionally when in many cases they are dealing with jet lag and the continuous business activities back in the UK office. Happy travel planning, Nicky x.
Office Dynamics
JULY 21, 2016
For an assistant, travel planning can be a nightmare! The problem of travel planning is massive and it’s plagued our field for decades. You’ll begin to see travel planning as an opportunity, rather than an obstacle, to demonstrate your revolutionary skills. In case you’re not aware, TRAVO is revolutionizing the world of travel planning. How to segment parts of the trip so you can manage the various aspects more effectively and avoid missing any step.
Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 6, 2016
As promised, for those of you that couldn’t make Assist Travel this year, here are the rest of the slides from our wonderful speakers. Assist travel Avoiding Visa Disasters for Practically Perfect PA from Practically Perfect PA. Travel Apps and Technology. Apps and technology at Assist Travel for Practically Perfect PA from Practically Perfect PA. Travel and Accommodation Search Engines. PAs who travel.
Practically Perfect PA
JUNE 28, 2017
Whether travelling domestically or internationally, corporations have a Duty of Care to employees visiting other cities and locations for business. That’s why Roomex have developed an interactive map that can pinpoint business travellers in over 550,000 hotels worldwide, providing instant visibility on your colleagues’ whereabouts. Accounting for the safety and the whereabouts of business travellers has never been of greater importance for international companies.
Practically Perfect PA
APRIL 25, 2016
We are going to make a start today with your top travel tips… it can literally be anything that you have found that works when it comes to arranging travel for your organisation. To give you an example here is my top tip… Ensure that your Executive has two passports, one that they can use for travel and one that you can use for Visas. . The post Top travel tips please!
Practically Perfect PA
JULY 21, 2016
Here are some tips if your Executive does experience a travel delay: Be prepared. It is always, always worth checking the weather in the places that your boss is travelling to. It kinda goes without saying that if there have been any weather warnings or any unusual weather there will be travel delays and you should be prepared for this. You may be able to book them on or get your Travel Management Company to switch the booking asap. Assist Travel.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Core Skills admin administrators assistants business travel EA Executive Assistant Expenses Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual AssistantCollecting and processing expenses is not fun. There I’ve said it – call me controversial if you like but I stand by my statement! In fact, I’ll go further as to say processing expenses can be an absolute time zapper for Assistants. So what can we do to make this tiresome task less of a […].
Practically Perfect PA
MAY 3, 2018
Or maybe you’re managing the annual ski-trip for the entire company? Booking and managing business travel is time consuming, stressful, and let’s be honest, not always that appreciated. Featured Sponsored posts Travel admin administrators assistants business travel EA Employment Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Virtual AssistantBooking a last minute trip to an international company?
Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 21, 2015
We held our first Assist Travel conference and exhibition on Friday 25th September at the Hilton Bankside and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed the day. As with all of our Assist Events we like to make sure that it is a little different and I loved our travel themed registration desk. ’ This was half an hour where everyone called talk about their experiences booking business travel, what goes wrong and how to fix any issues that might crop up.
Practically Perfect PA
JANUARY 27, 2014
Having been established in the incentive travel industry for over a decade now, I can state with confidence that we at First Event have seen it all; events to recognise success, reward achievement, inspire motivation, build relations and give back to communities. What works best; Cash incentives, vouchers, travel, awards or recognition? Incentivising your workforce with travel is the perfect way to promote a passionate, motivated team, willing to work hard for a great reward.
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 23, 2016
Every admin wears many hats: office manager, personal assistant, life coach, travel planner. Every time your manager is heading out of town, it’s time for you to don your travel planner hat, slip into your traveler’s shoes, and equip yourself with your suite of travel planning tools. TRAVO ’s goal is to boil down your arsenal of travel tools, ranging from sticky notes to Excel spreadsheets, to one single booking and planning platform.
Office Dynamics
FEBRUARY 20, 2014
All this information is waiting in the palm of your hand and it has the power to make travel for yourself or your leader so much easier! Best Apps for Travel Recommended by Assistants. Whether you travel often or your executive does these apps will make your lives much easier by increasing your productivity and ease your travel woes. Mobile travel planning made easy. Flight, hotel, cars, flight tracking and itinerary management.
Practically Perfect PA
AUGUST 24, 2015
As I said many times arranging travel for your Executive can be a tricky business. Knowing their preferences, getting them to their destination and then managing them while they are away from the office is a time consuming task. Having recently talked to an assistant who said arranging business travel for her Exec took up a huge amount of her time (over 24 days per year!) Managing your Executive while they are on the road. Assist Travel Featured Travel
Small Business CEO
NOVEMBER 10, 2021
However, with the help of virtual currency, you can control every system and manage your travel. The establishment of Bitcoin is a fantastic source for the travel industry. … The post Why Is Bitcoin So Important For The Travelling Industry?
Practically Perfect PA
AUGUST 21, 2019
When you book travel, currently you have two options: […]. Core Skills Featured Sponsored posts Travel admin administrators assistants blogging EA Executive Assistant Office manager PA Personal Assistant Tasks technologyHow many times have you booked a work trip for you or your colleague, only for them to end up needing to change the date or time, or even cancel altogether? Of course, business trips get amended for endless reasons which are out of your control.
Success
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
This is what we do: My husband monitors travel sites and email subscription services for super-cheap flights or error fares. Sometimes one of us travels for work and the other tags along. With us, travel is always interesting. Traveling also affords space to dream.
Practically Perfect PA
AUGUST 31, 2016
It is a brilliant city and with more and more people coming here for business trips I thought now would be a good time to share with you my top tips for organising business travel to Barcelona. This is the first video I have done for Practically Perfect PA – I much prefer writing than staring at myself on screen – however – with Assist Travel coming up next week I thought I would also highlight one of the great sessions we have at the conference!
Practically Perfect PA
MAY 11, 2016
So, according to recent studies, the amount organizations spend on business travel is increasing year on year. This means that the amount of time assistants spends organising business travel is only going to grow. Throw into the mix the fact that we are seeing the rise of the Millennials (those born roughly between 1980-2000) into managerial positions we can safely say organising business travel is changing! Organising business travel is changing… Are you?
Success
MARCH 12, 2022
In a typical year, Jared Neff, owner of Neff Yacht Sales in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, travels for work a few times a month. Last year, COVID-related international travel bans kept Neff mostly grounded. That being said, they’re still going to evaluate whether travel is necessary.”.
Practically Perfect PA
OCTOBER 14, 2015
In this blog post we have concentrated on the tax implication of travel, as we believe it’s a very relevant issue today. As a company Voyage Manager provides end to end travel tracking and monitoring services, with a historical focus on safety and security. For a lot of jurisdictions the residency threshold is 183 days, which can be quite easy to manage. Voyage Manager visualizes the data in an easy and understandable way. Assist Travel Featured Travel
Practically Perfect PA
NOVEMBER 21, 2013
Booking business travel is a core part of our role so working with a good travel management company can save us so much time and ultimately our organisation money! I’ve asked Travel Professionals to give us a bit more understanding on what we should expect from our business travel provider…. You may book your own travel believing it to be quicker, cheaper and more efficient. So why should you book your travel through a travel management company?
Practically Perfect PA
SEPTEMBER 16, 2015
Over the last few weeks I have been writing about the four steps of business travel, firstly I published waving goodbye to your Exec. The second step was Delivering your Exec to their destination and the third step was managing your Executive while they are on the road. After all they have already managed to complete the outbound journey successfully and it is pretty much the same thing just in reverse! Manage the office.
Practically Perfect PA
AUGUST 12, 2016
We are offering ten lucky readers the chance to attend Assist Travel for free. More information on the programme and the speakers can be found on the Assist Travel website. Planning travel for your team should take minutes, not hours! Compare travel rates across multiple companies to cut costs. Manage multiple travel profiles and preferences at TRAVO.com. Easier to communicate and get trip approvals from your managers.
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