Zurich is the world’s business center, and quite often all the world’s business events do not pass it by. As it has a very good business climate, every year the city welcomes more and more business-oriented people, cool deals are made, new partnerships are formed and brilliant start-ups are born.
This article is a small guide for those business people who have decided to go on a business trip to Zurich. It will help you to plan your business trip more efficiently, and give you tips that will help you spend as little effort as possible and get the best results.
Let’s get started.
Car hire
This point is very important because often a business trip can be urgent, it has specific deadlines, in which you need to be on time for some meeting and so on. Usually, people use a taxi, but it does not give guarantees of performance and does not take into account the situation with some holidays and other events that may prevent you from arriving on time. + In a taxi there is no fixed price and no guarantee of time. Therefore, for business traveling, it is better to take care in advance and being in your country to order Zurich airport transfer in advance.
Firstly, you will know exactly how much money you will pay and where you will arrive (because there is a fixed price). Secondly, you will have a real-time guarantee (which will give you the opportunity not to worry about any important meetings) and thirdly, there is a wider choice of car classes, you can choose the option of a larger car for a business trip and in addition, if you have several transfers planned at once, you can track this option in Atob Transfer’s b2b platform in real-time.
Think about the size of your luggage
Since the purpose of this article is to make your business trip less expensive, we advise you to think about the size of your luggage. After all, if you fly with a large suitcase, you will have to pay more for the ticket + there is a risk of losing luggage, it is minimal, but its presence should not be overlooked. Therefore, we advise you to see what requirements your company provides for the flight, so that you and your luggage fall into the category of “hand luggage”.
Table of income information
In order to effectively control the budget on a business trip and understand how much each employee spends and where (if you have such a scheme). You can create a simple online spreadsheet that has columns with the names of the people who are travelling. And also, there will be the most basic categories where the money is spent and against these categories and names, fill in who spent what amount. In this way you will be able to effectively arrange finances and quickly react if someone decides to spend a lot of money somewhere wrong.
Make a list of things before traveling
This advice is really effective, and it applies not only to personal belongings but also to any valuable work papers. If you have a lot of important documents, which are almost the main reason for your arrival in another country – do not be lazy to give them enough time to understand where they will be during the trip and in what quantity.
It’s the same story with personal belongings, a person is not a robot – so forgetting something is a variant of the norm. Tick off all the important things for you on your list and you’ll be fine!
Not too much of the informal part, but not too little either
This paragraph is so written because there is a blurred line. It is better to have a lot of informal parts than no informal parts at all. Just decide in advance how much time you will give to entertainment, how much to the formal part and how much to just free time. And one more little tip: always take more time to spare, if we are talking about some organisational things, like renting transport, make it half an hour more (so that even if someone is late there will be no problems).
Solve small problems without literally touching them
If you are reading this article and you are a top manager (or something relevant to that) and you need to organize a business trip, we suggest you hire a special person to handle the smaller issues. This will allow you to concentrate on more strategic tasks and not be distracted by the small details of travelling.
Always have a backup plan
Rarely does a business trip to another country go completely without problems. It’s normal to have them, it’s just important to know how to deal with them properly. You have to be strategic because you are organising a trip that will be in the future. So think about what risks there may be specifically during your trip, it can be anything from minor problems when someone is late for the rented car and ending with a drastic change of plans. You should always have a plan “B” for such an eventuality, but to develop it effectively, think about the specifics of your trip and the risks involved.
Blog while traveling
If you take this tip seriously (assuming you already have a +- developed blog) you can quite easily get new customers to your business. All you need to do is just blog while you’re travelling for business matters, plus you’ll be in beautiful Zurich. We’re 100% sure that you’ll be able to find places there to shoot cool content and package everything well. So give some thought to how you can make it all happen.
Bleisure travel
This is a unique item in our article because it deals with an unusual approach to business travelling. But probably this point is more suitable for those people who are travelling for work-related reasons. Bleisure travel is an opportunity to let the employee combine the solution of work issues with a little rest.
This manifests itself in many different ways, you can, for example, allow an employee to take their other half on a business trip to Zurich. Or, allow them to spend a weekend in this city, just relaxing. This is a very popular practice that has proven to work very well recently – and as a result, the work of employees becomes many times more efficient after such trips.
It may even make sense to consider paying for an employee’s mini-vacation, because statistics show that a large percentage of people are ready to receive even less, but still have the opportunity for a bleisure trip (where it will all be paid for) + it should be remembered that your payment will return many times better, in terms of the quality of your employee’s work in the future.
Take photos on a business trip
This tip is very similar to the tip with blogging (it all overlaps somewhere) and many may even ask the question, how can this help you save money. Actually, it can help you earn it. The fact is that photography is an emotion and memory, and for a company, photos from a successful business trip to Zurich – it can have a very reliable reputation among consumers and not only.
If all of this is done properly, then consider that you yourself have made a small positive PR company for your company + photos from the business trip are a pleasant memory for the co-workers of the company.