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Here are ten reasons to combine business travel with vacation.

1. You can double your vacation time
2. Your vacations can be partly or wholly tax deductible
3. Use the business travel budget to cover your transport costs (e.g. work flies you to Miami and back, so the cost of your vacation is really just accommodation for the extra days you stay)
4. Split up long period of stressful work with some R&R
5. Split up long period of R&R that can start to feel a little boring, with a little productivity (great for us workaholics)
6. Come back to the office happier, more grounded, and more productive
7. No more long periods out of touch with the office when people are unable to access you
8. Keeps you out of the office more so your assistants can prove they can handle more responsibility
9. Forces you to be more efficient when you’re only allowed to work for 2 hours a day
10. Allows you to get those BIG projects done with no distractions

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When doing a business trip, how can you incorporate vacation?

• Get there early. The simplest and most obvious way is to get to the event a couple of days early and do some sightseeing before it’s time to do business. If you can justify it to the office as important to get grounded and happy before the meeting – especially if it’s an international flight – you might get work to pay for a day or two of the extra hotel cost.

Or – tack on a few days at the end of the project. If the client agrees to stay another day or two, that’s a BIG reason for your boss to fork out for the extra hotel expense.

Example: This month I fly to Australia so the government can audit my company. I’ll be setting speeches up in two towns, meeting with my accountant and production manager who live there, and spending time with my family.

• Stretched financially? Try for a place to crash once the business accommodation budget dries up. Youth Hostels might seem a bit unprofessional or like you’re coming down in the world, but that’s largely the point. You’ll meet colorful people you’ll never even see while insulated at the Park Avenue Hotel. Call as far in advance and you might even secure the private room instead of a dorm.

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• Use your network. Another way to defray the cost is to notify every friend you know, asking if they have a friend in that town who might put you up for a couple of nights. Then, you do such a great job of tidying up and doing the dishes for people that they’re asking you to stay longer.
• Work could not survive without you? I hate to break it to your ego (especially if it’s as big as mine), but I suggest you write down what would happen if you were stuck in a hospital for two weeks unable to communicate. What would happen in your business? Who would pick up the reins? What could your assistant or secretary handle that you’ve never allowed room for?
• Stop ‘on the way’. Is work flying you close to a place you’d like to go? See if you can stop off on the way there (or the way back) for a couple of days, at no extra airfare cost to you.

Example: A few years ago I flew to New Jersey for business. I decided to take a rental car and spend a weekend with my sister who lived in Port Jefferson, NY. The cost of the total trip was less (in time and money) than if I had flown to New Jersey only on this trip, and then done a separate trip to New York. 

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Mariano M. Jauco has been empowering business professionals and individuals by sharing his knowledge to produce a positive change in the world. His personal development techniques and methods will allow you to reach your goals and achieve the success and prosperity you deserve.

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