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What is Bleisure?
‘Bleisure’ is a new travel trend that combines business travel with leisure activities. It generally means adding a few days to the beginning and/or end of a business trip to mix work with pleasure and get the most of your time on the road.
It’s not in the dictionary yet, but bleisure is astronomically rising as a common practice with millennials, currently the biggest working population in the world. And companies are supporting this shift, in fact 57% of companies now have a policy implemented for employees to extend their business trips for vacation time.
This freedom creates a new meaning for work-life balance that allows you to let out your inner adventurer and blur the boundaries of your work and personal life in any place, at any time.
For many of us, being tied to our smartphone or laptop means we can be readily accessible at every moment. As a result, when we travel for work, we are always on. Conference calls, emails, last minute proposals and demanding clients can dominate late nights, early mornings, and everything in-between.
Knowing that we can blend our responsibilities with exploration, entertainment, and relaxation on the road makes the pace of our ever-expanding world a lot more bearable and a lot more enticing. Incorporating leisure to business travel has even been shown to reduce travel-related stress and up overall productivity in the workforce.
Bleisure doesn’t have to be an isolating experience, either. Despite millennial marrying and having children later in life, more than half of bleisure travellers report take their spouses and families along for the ride. Its guilt-free travel that can replace or enhance a group vacation and make it more cost effective to live your holiday dreams.
Your Travel Group can help you expertly plan your next bleisure adventure with personalised, attentive service. Find out more and get started with us today.
Creative Resins has been at the forefront of decorative glass technology for over 30 years. When Louise contacted us to help with a trip to Oman, we discovered that the company had been using an airline’s website to book direct, paying in excess of £5,000 per trip in Business Class. Using our negotiated fares on this one flight YourTravel saved over £1000 per trip. Upon further investigation and a year’s great relationship, we delved into the companies travel policies and booking habits. We found that travel was often booked at the last minute and there was no one in authority to keep a watchful eye over what was being booked and where. We then worked with Louise to create passenger profiles for all of Creative Resins travellers including details such as preferred seat numbers, meals and airlines – we also set in place cabin restrictions (who can and can’t travel in an upgraded travel class). We then looked at the company’s calendar for the coming year, estimating when and where they would need to book travel and agreed that Your Travel would be proactive in trying to get confirmed travel dates from 4 weeks prior to the trip dates. This created a stress-free booking system that took budget and organisational pressure from the senior management, knowing they would always be working with a cost-effective travel budget. This lead to a reduced travel spend of just over 16% without cost-cutting and maintaining a high level of service.
‘’Working with Your Travel Corporate has been an enlightening experience, we were wasting money on travel and working with John and the team was very easy indeed. Everything is taken care of on every trip and we get a level of service that just can’t be achieved by the bigger travel agents, being treated as a valued client and not just another customer is fantastic!’’ Louise Bollom, Director
