Business travel is often anything but glamorous, but by focusing on the potential benefits, like taking your partner along, you can get more out of your time together. Not only will you both have a much more meaningful personal experience, the trip can have the positive effect of building resilience in your relationship.
Make time for both of you in the itinerary for some joint R&R, then maximise it. If you are both foodies, enjoy everything a new place has to offer, including staking out the best restaurants. If history is your passion, taking advantage of time out of a work schedule, could mean having the rare opportunity of exploring museums and historical sites together in an exotic or different location.
Good for Business
Taking your loved one with you on a work trip, can actually be good for business, it can enhance positive social connections and aid business dealings. Inviting your partner out to dinner with a business associate can help the business bonding process – it forces you to push conversation beyond business, and into the realms of life outside of work.
Its a well known fact that communication is key for any relationship, but it doubles in importance when that relationship must stand the test of travel. Its crucial that each person in the relationship bridge the geographical distance, by consistently meeting one another’s emotional needs. By taking your partner on a business trip, instantly turns business travel into pleasure, and for some, it may even be an opportunity to use the end of their trip as the beginning of a holiday together in the same city, with the added benefit of airfare savings that are hard to beat.