Word: travel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Miller, who grew up in New York, was initially unhappy that his film career forced him to move to Los Angeles, he says he appreciated the opportunity to travel while filming...
...course Paris may yet have to deal with threats from Basque and Corsican insurgents, and even French truckers: In 15 blockades around the country Tuesday ahead of wage talks, more than 300 truckers turned roads into parking lots, implying that labor could threaten travel chaos for next month's tournament. But the unions may struggle to keep its members out on the barricades once television crosses live to France's kickoff against South Africa on June...
...South Korean fabric salesman, knows this all too well. Ahn bemoans the fact that he can't cut back his traveling, because cloth must be "felt and seen." He skips meals, crams more meetings into an already tight schedule and grabs public buses instead of hailing cabs. "When I jokingly told some of my business contacts to pay for meals, they took it seriously," says Ahn, whose belt tightening has worked perhaps too effectively--he claims he lost 8 lbs. with all the extra running around on his last business trip. Other pleasurable business habits are also taking a pounding...
...previous year, while in Seoul the price cutting was even more dramatic: to $70 from $143, according to analysts at PKF Consulting. And although business-class seat prices are holding steady, economy fares are 20% lower than last year's, says Jacko C.F. Yeung, a Hong Kong travel agent. A standard flight from Hong Kong to Singapore costs about $300; last year it was $550. "The trend I see is that more business people are traveling economy class," he says. "It's too expensive otherwise...
Some tips: When hunting for business-travel bargains, remember that all Asian countries are not suffering equally. In Japan, where inbound business travel went up 7.6% last year between January and November, air fares and hotel rates won't show the dramatic declines seen in, say, Malaysia and Indonesia. And no matter how savvy, individual travelers or companies aren't always equipped to negotiate the best deals. "I was attending a conference in Bangkok, and when we called this hotel, we were charged $85 a night," says Helen Peterson, spokeswoman for the Asia division of the Pacific Asia Travel Association...