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How to Plan for a Trade Show
Thinking of going to a trade show? It’s absolutely worth it. The Benefits: Face-to-Face Contact: You’re always at your most convincing when you’re pitching to a person right in front of you. If you’re a bit introverted, well, you might as well bring your best closer...
More Rights for Air Travellers!
At Encore Travel, standing up for travellers has always been a critical part of our mandate. Air travel is particularly prone to disruptions, and delays, cancellations, and lost luggage are unfortunately just a part of the business. That’s why Encore is always...
How Should You Deliver Your Travel Policy?
Even a perfectly-written policy is useless if no one bothers to read it. A travel policy’s distribution can be as relevant as its content. That being said, is email really an effective way of distributing a policy? How can you overcome the natural aversion people have...
Travel Policy Anatomy 101
A travel policy is a daunting thing. Editing an existing one is the sensation you’ve forgotten something from your grocery list to the nth power and writing one from scratch is like plotting out an epic. Let’s dissect the elements of a policy. It’ll lower your stress...
Travel Risks and How to Deal With Them
Sitting in one place is usually safer than moving around. It’s also much more boring. Travelling automatically involves risk at almost every stage. That being said, most of the risks are low, and getting lower, and the value of travel is well worth it. Very few travel...
Travelling for Business? Here’s How to Get Upgraded.
In the bygone days of the mid-Twentieth century, airplanes were basically little flying Ritz’s, what with the fancy ashtrays and wood trim, and everyone dressed for a cotillion and talking like they aren’t British but they aren’t exactly American either. While there’s...
Home-Sharing for Business Travel: What Are the Risks?
Whether it’s from first-hand experience or cultural osmosis, we all have an idea what to expect from a hotel. The room will have certain features: a door that locks, a bed, a bathroom with a functional toilet, sink, and shower, a little desk, maybe a television. The...
The 15 hotels that have stepped-up the wellness travel game
There’s no question about it: wellness travel is a booming industry. Over 17 million travellers identify with being health and wellbeing focused, and around 40% of these people frequently travel. With this hyper-focus on health and wellbeing, it’s no surprise that the...
Getting high in the sky
Believe it or not, weed is legal across Canada. In these first few weeks since the legalization became official, rumours have been swirling about implications and consequences on travel. You’ve probably already engaged in some water cooler talk about it, or sat at a...
Enterprise: the ins and outs from a rental car company
At Encore Travel, we work constantly to fulfill our mission of creating value as our clients trusted advisor. That’s why we work so diligently with our travel vendors. We’re able to stay current with the latest offerings in the industry, which we then bring to our...
