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16 Golden Rules That Business Travelers Swear By


People who constantly hit the road for work share what they wish they’d known from the jump.

These sources come from many lines of work and walks of life—museum directors who know which gala dresses are easiest to pack, private equity and corporate law guys who prefer boutique hotels, young communications specialists who’ve learned to find the romance in everything, and so on. When Lucie, now a partner at a major management consulting company based in New York, first began traveling a lot for work, she booked whichever airline had the most convenient departure time. While listing off what goes into her toiletry bag, Lucie tells me, “I just feel more like myself when I have my perfume on.” It’s a small aside that gets at something bigger: Traveling a ton for work comes at the cost to your personal life, so it's important to find little ways to get back to yourself.

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