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Have you ever noticed a business traveler in the airport? Business travelers and other executives are truly in a class of their own. They have special luggage, preferred seating, and an elevated knowledge of the industry that simply makes traveling much easier. The following information will provide you with several traveling secrets that previously were only known by today’s business travelers.

Booking your flight - Relationships and loyalty are the key to taking advantage of exclusive travel offers. Most business travelers and executives are loyal to one airline and often use a travel agent to arrange flight itineraries. It is tempting to utilize one of the many discount online travel websites; however, most travel agents can secure similar airline rates and save you time!

Reserving a hotel room - Similar to the airline industry, many hotel chains reward travelers for remaining loyal to their company. Take advantage of the same offers that most business travelers utilize and start saving money! By the way, you would be amazed by the power of a simple question. Ask and you shall receive (or at least have a better chance of receiving). If you are interested in an upgrade, simply ask the hotel employee during your check-inyou might be surprised what you receive!

Know how and what to pack - Packing is a crucial aspect of traveling and therefore, it is critical that travelers are familiar with what and how to pack. For example, many executives that frequently travel often carry all-inclusive toiletry kits. Packing a travel kit filled with essential toiletry and personal items is a great way to ensure you are prepared for the unexpected challenges of traveling.

Protect your valuables - Business travelers realize that safety is always a concern and therefore take the necessary precautions. For example, carry a limited amount of cash while traveling. Instead of carrying cash, use debit and credit cards and take advantage of the extra protection offered to travelers. In addition to the added security, many credit cards offer reward points for purchases!

Like other things in life, learning from the experts will help make your travels more efficient. Frequent travelers, whether for business or pleasure, have provided the rest of us with a road map that will prepare us for easier travels.

Steve Campanella is the founder and President of Executive Travel Kits. Executive Travel Kits offers a full line of all-inclusive kits designed to assist busy professionals alleviate pressures throughout the day. To view the Executive Travel Kits line of products, along with other ways to show appreciation to those that make a difference in your life, please visit http://www.abernook.com

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When I was in college, in the prehistoric days, I was a veteran bus traveler. I am not talking about the city buses but the kind you would take from city “A” to city “B” three states apart.

You know the kind of which I speak. I am talking about the long-distance ones that smelled not unlike you were stepping into an ashtray on wheels. There was always the peculiar smell of cigarettes, beer, and that nursing home smell that you encountered when you went to visit your 900-year-old aunt.

The seats in those nastiness-on-wheels buses were positively nightmarish. I still dream about them. I think I suffer from (among many things) a post-traumatic bus-seat stress disorder. Those seats were little butt seats. I mean you had to have the butt of a 10-year-old dwarf child to sit comfortably in them! And, if you were lucky, there would be some duct tape covering the hole where someone smuggled drugs or where there was a spring ready to impale one of your butt cheeks.

The floors! My God, the floors! There was always something sticky covering the floors and they were a necrotic-tissue color–black. I am positive they contributed to the assortment of smells that wafted into your nostrils on entering the bus.
The bathrooms in those buses were virtually impossible to use. If you managed to drop your britches to use the toilet and sit down, you were assured of a skull fracture from being propelled off the thing as though someone suddenly jerked the toilet up and forward when the bus driver (probably drunk) accelerated.
Once, I had to take a bus from Clarksville, Arkansas, to York, Pennsylvania, for Christmas break. The trip, boring and tiring as it was, wasn’t that bad and we were making good time. I was going to have to spend three days, count them, three days traveling in a bus.

Well, somewhere in Tennessee, I think, the bus driver decided to stop somewhere in the middle of the night for a bite to eat. It was, as I said, in the middle of the night and while we all slept he took a little extra time to do God only knows what.
His little rest stop put us late getting into somewhere (I forget) which caused me to miss my connection. In addition, it was snowing, delaying the next bus I could have taken.
I had to spend two days in a bus station, with no hotel money, waiting for the worst snowstorm in the history of mankind to clear up so the appropriate bus could get there.

I called my parents and made them swear they would fly me back to Arkansas after Christmas should I survive this ordeal.
That was the last time I ever rode a bus in America.

Now come with me to Mexico: My wife and I went to Puerto Vallarta for Christmas, 2004. We took the ENT bus line. This thing was, and I swear to you, like the first-class section of the most expensive airline only magnified to the power of 1000.
As you got on, they served a lunch and drink. There was a galley for your tea or coffee pleasure. There were two bathrooms in that bus. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT? The seats were big-butt seats, like on a first-class airline, and were actually comfortable to sleep in. There were private headphones for music or for watching the movie. You heard rightthe bus had video screens for a movie!

Get this: They insolated the bus walls because you could hear nothing from outside the bus.

Can you begin to fathom how a so-called third world country can offer this most astounding bus traveling experience while the United Statesdeveloped country?still offers (so I am told) basically the same torture that I suffered in the 70’s?

Doug Bower is a freelance writer and book author. His most recent writing credits include The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Houston Chronicle, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, and Transitions Abroad. He lives with his wife in Guanajuato, Mexico.

His new book Mexican Living: Blogging it from a Third World Country can be seen at http://www.lulu.com/content/126241

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The Bahamas also known as the shallow sea has the most unbelievable waters: warm and nice just like the inhabitants of this part of the world. People her take their time, enjoying life and trying not to become overwhelmed by the every day problems. It’s like the time has frozen for them. The calm and beauty will surely get to you, and in a few days you will become a part of this magnificent place, enjoying the endless sandy beaches and the seashells that cover everything like a divine painter used his brush to paint them.

Even if it’s made of thousands of islands this archipelago is almost two times bigger then France. Diving, fishing, relaxing on the islands, shopping on the street markets, windsurfing or some dancing in the middle of the night, this are just some of the things you can do there with your time. One thing I can promise you: you won’t get bored for one second in this part of the world.

But why do you think rich people are attracted to these places? Well let’s just say Bahamas resorts are for all tastes. Exclusive hotels and resorts are ready to offer anything you can think of but that does not mean they are all over the islands. If you can afford it they will offer you the dream vacation.

The biggest mistake people are making is thinking that the Bahamas is a Caribbean country. This is a common mistake but the truth is that Bahamas is right in the Atlantic Ocean so this classification is really not appropriate.

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