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IDENTITY CARD Area code: +351. Time difference: -1 hour. GETTING THERE TAP, the Portuguese national airline, operates 19 flights a week between Paris and Lisbon. Tel: 0820 319 320 - Internet: www.flytap.com AIR FRANCE offers four flights a day between Paris CDG and the Portuguese capital. Tel: 3654 - Internet: www.airfrance.fr TRANSAVIA, the low-cost subsidiary...

What motivates business travellers to use Airbnb? Emmanuel Marill - First of all, bleisure, with business travellers extending their stay to explore cities. Over 30 % of Airbnb for Work bookings over the past year included at least one weekend night. On the other hand, teams are travelling...

If you've got an hour... Between two meetings, the National Garden is a great place to take a break in the middle of the business district. Further south in the city, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, designed by Renzo Piano, is worth escaping from Syntagma and its austere banks. This new cultural centre, inaugurated in 2016, is now home to the...

Could it be that travel managers are guided solely by the quest for savings? Behind this - purely ironic - question lies perhaps the end of certain prejudices that sometimes weigh on the profession of travel manager, which is in the throes of change, at the crossroads of purchasing, technology and human resources... And it is precisely in...

If you have an hour... Closed for six long years for renovation, the Musée des Beaux-Arts - renamed the Musée d'Arts - was sorely missed by the people of Nantes. When it reopened in June 2017, no fewer than 100,000 visitors flocked there in two months, discovering in particular the Cube, a new space dedicated to contemporary art. A few...

The line between business and leisure travel has never seemed so fine. Concur has analysed its booking data for the whole of 2017, and by identifying stays including Friday night, estimates that the share of bleisure increased by 46% in the EMEA market last year. The increase would reach 20% at...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. If you have an hour... Between two meetings, business travellers can take a cultural break at the monumental Musée des Beaux-Arts, which acquired a new building at the end of 2016, or at the Musée d'Art Contemporain in the entertainment district. Heading towards the St. Lawrence River, the Phi...

For many business travellers, 2008 will be remembered as an annus horribilis, marking a rather abrupt change of direction in the history of business travel. My first business trip was in 2006," recalls this former hotel industry professional. It was a trip to Dubai, in business class and in a five-star hotel. The whole...

If you have... One or two hours Go to the marina and the beach, where you can watch the boats, the birds, the joggers and the matkot (Israeli beach-ball) players. If you want to take your marine experience a step further, several clubs offer diving trips in the...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. If you have an hour... It's hard to resist the call of the sea after a morning of meetings. The seafront is within easy walking distance of the city centre. On this vast promenade lined with palm trees and hotels, you'll soon find yourself strolling along, watching the fishermen, more or less...

 If you have two hours... The Patek Philippe Museum is one of Geneva's most popular museums. Its prestigious collection of watches - those designed by the famous watchmaker of Polish origin, as well as a whole series of models retracing the history of watchmaking - allows visitors to step back in time through...

If you have two hours... Adjacent to the Central Business District, the historic district of The Rocks, the birthplace of Sydney, offers a striking contrast with the modernity of the business district. When the weather is fine, Hyde Park and the Botanic Gardens are the perfect place to relax in the heart of the city, amidst the ibis and...

If you've got an hour to spare? Why not take the opportunity to admire Rotterdam's new market halls, the Markthal, and get an idea of this daring architectural project while filling up on local specialities. Once you've left the market, a tour of the cube-shaped houses is a must:...

There are 100,000 bicycles in Utrecht every day. Exploring the city by bike is of course the most obvious way to get away from it all. But Utrecht is also a city of canals, where drifting away from the tourist centre towards the romantic Wilhelmina Park offers a real break from the daily grind....

One week follows another in business travel news: from surveys to infographics, market players compete to provide data on the current state of bleisure. The latest publication on the subject is by Egencia, and has the advantage of being based on a vast international sample. The study - soberly entitled "Egencia Bleisure Trends"...

For several years now, bleisure has been no longer a secret for business travel professionals. However, not all professionals fully embrace the periods of 'good time' that they indulge in more or less regularly on the fringes of their business trips. This is confirmed by a study published by National Car Rental. This "Overview of the...

Salary is not everything when it comes to recruiting new talent: generation Y places a great deal of importance on their professional mobility. At least, that's what emerges from a study published on 13 November by Booking.com Business. The business arm of the hotel booking giant surveyed more than 17,000 professionals in 24 countries,...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. If you've got an hour... The most energetic business travellers can discover the city at a brisk pace, with a jog along the banks of the Garonne, the loop between the Pont de Pierre and the Chaban Delmas bridge offering a pleasant 7 km route. For the...

Ah, that damned time that stubbornly refuses to suspend its flight... Every day, millions of business travellers battle against all the clocks in the world, running from taxi to plane, from hotel to meeting. As a result, they are forced to find their own little tricks and habits to make their journeys more productive...

Report and photos by Florian Guillemin. If you've got an hour... Given the size of the city and the traffic, it's hard to get away from Mexico City's hyper-centre for any length of time. But that doesn't matter: within a radius of just a few hundred metres are the city's must-see sights, such as the cathedral and the...