Short and Sweet Travel Advice for the World’s Top Tech Cities

by Neil Woodburn on

If you’re in the tech industry these days, your travel has become increasingly more widespread in the last five years as international competition has started challenging Silicon Valley as the sole place to do business.

With this in mind, Business 2.0 has published a handy little guide in this month’s issue: The Road Warrior’s Guide to Travel.

The guide, which is available online here, or as a pull-out in the print edition, breaks out the travel basics for the planet’s hottest tech cities: Bangalore, Barcelona, Helsinki, Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Stockholm, Tallinn, Tel Aviv, and Tokyo.

Each city section addresses the same six questions; How to get around, where to find free Wi-Fi, where to get a trim, best place to get down to business, best place to celebrate closing the deal, and what you might not know.

Better get a print copy soon, however. I just learned that Business 2.0 (one of my favorite magazines) is going belly-up–perhaps yet another sign that the tech world is migrating out of America?

Conde Nast's Essential Tips for Business Travel

by Karen Walrond on

Back when I was still a practicing
attorney, I flew all over the world for my job.

Didn’t that sentence sound wonderfully glamorous?

Well, trust me, business travel isn’t.  It is gruelling, and oftentimes, you don’t have the luxury of
seeing anything more scenic than a conference room.  Still, in today’s increasingly global economy, business
travel is often a necessary evil, and isn’t likely to go away anytime soon.  So if you’re one of those people who
spend a great percentage of your life in a plane or hotel rather than at home, you might find Conde Nast’s Essential Tips for Business
Travel a godsend.  Included are the obvious bring-your-own-music (via MP3 player) type tips, but there’s also
some lesser known ones:  did you know that lavender water sprinkled on your hotel’s bedclothes will relax you and
help you sleep better?  Or that massaging the centre of your hand with your opposite thumb will help you arrive
refreshed?

Check the article
out.  You never know — you might actually start enjoying the punishing travel as a result.