Mixing Business and Pleasure
Turning A Business Trip Into A Mini-Vacation
As work is increasingly making inroads into leisure time, many business travelers are finding ways to turn that equation around — combining their travel for work with time for cultural and historical sightseeing. The majority of adult American travelers (81%) have included a cultural or history-related activity while traveling, according to a 2007 report by the Travel Industry Association, while 62% regard learning about other cultures as important when they travel. Almost one in four of all trips in the United States in 2005 included a cultural or historical activity, the survey also found, and those travelers spent considerably more per trip on average, and stayed longer, than those who did not.
