bleisure
Bridgestreet study: what role for 'bleisure' in travel?
At the 4thCorporate Travel Network organised by Amadeus at its Sophia Antipolis centre in early October, five professionals 'confessed' to taking advantage of the event and the destination to extend their business trip with a personal stay on the Côte d'Azur. Barely five guests out of an audience of some 120 people, yet at the...
If you have a few hours: Shanghai in a sidecar
By making an appointment with Thomas Chabrières, a Frenchman who a few years ago launched Insiders, an agency offering tours of the city - and of China as a whole - in vintage sidecars. You arrange to meet at the foot of your hotel and take off for an hour or more in the direction of...
Doha: what to do if you have an afternoon or afternoon...
The capital - Qatar's only 'real' city - now offers several entertainment options for passengers on standby. There are four in particular. Firstly, the Waqif souk, an ideal place to collect souvenirs, but also to carry out a few minor repairs at low cost: a shaky sole, a broken watch, a broken smartphone screen....
Berlin Mediaspree: if you have a bit of time
If you have... an hour or two Here the wall went: Kreuzberg to the west, Friedrichshain to the east. From one bank to the other, Mediaspree stretches across two districts that may be neighbours, but have long been divided by history. This bleak post-war period has at least had the merit of bequeathing the district its main tourist attraction: the East Side Gallery,...
