Business Things to Do
Viator.com Tour Listings for Cities Around the Globe
Viator.com offers an interesting service for travelers. The site gives you the ability to research tours and day trips for cities around the globe. It’s a great resource for business travelers who have a free afternoon to see the area, but don’t know much about the city or have time to research all that is available.
So if your business travels land you in Memphis, Tennessee (as mine often have in the past), you can book tours from the Elvis Presley’s Graceland Platinum Tour Package to the Sun Studio Guided …
Date: September 30th, 2007 |
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Omni Chicago Hotel Cathedral District Walking Tour
The Omni Chicago Hotel is always up to something fun in my favorite city in America. The property is now partnering with the Cathedral District Association to offer the new Cathedral District Walking Tour. This kills so many birds with one stone for business travelers - doing something healty, getting out of the hotel bar, learning about the city, getting out of the hotel bar…
From the new-gothic style of the Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary to the first athletic club for women in the United
States — Women’s Athletic Club — the Cathedral District …
Date: September 12th, 2007 |
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Embassy Suites Do Not Distrub Contest
Embassy Suites Hotels has a new online challenge to design the hotel’s newest “Do Not Disturb” sign. From now until the end of October, 2007, users can submit phrases for the new sign. A panel of judges will select the 5 best signs (best design and copy), who will all win stays at select Embassy Suites Hotels. And, of course, the signs will be used on hotel doors around the hemisphere for those who want to be left alone.
Known for its own variation on the Do Not Disturb …
Date: September 8th, 2007 |
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Top 13 Hauted Attractions in the United States
Hauntworld Magazine, the “haunt industry’s leading trade publication,” just put out a list of the Top 13 Professional Haunted Attractions in the country. With Halloween just around the corner, this could provide an interesting diversion during your business travels. Halloween is my FAVORITE holiday, so I’m pretty excited about this list.
Ranging from haunted hotels and prisons to spooky hayrides, the list represents the best haunted attractions the nation has to offer, as selected by the editors at Hauntworld Magazine. In an industry that has reached the multi-billion dollar mark, …
Date: September 6th, 2007 |
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Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport Walking Program
The Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport has teamed with the American Heart Association to bring its nationwide Start! Walking program to the airport. Does that mean lugging your heavy bags around even more?! Pretty much. The route includes a 1.4-mile hike around MSP’s Lindbergh Terminal. The route is marked on overhead way-finding signs with circular green mileage markers for travelers to keep track of their progress. That’s cool. Walkers travel a square circuit that begins near Gate C1, they then proceed down the C concourse, cross the Concourse Skyway Connector, travel down Concourse G, and …
Date: September 1st, 2007 |
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AAA Pet Book Photo Contest
If you are one of those travelers who takes Fido along for the ride, AAA might have a contest for you. Between now and November 30, you can enter AAA’s annual Pet Book photo contest.
Whadda ya get? The winning photo will appear on the cover of the next edition of Traveling With Your Pet: The AAA PetBook to be published in April of next year. In addition, the winning photographer will receive a $250 AAA Visa Gift Card, five complimentary copies of the book and a year’s …
Date: September 30th, 2007 |
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CalorieKing Mobile Calorie Counter
CalorieKing is a website that offers “food awareness tools for weight management.” I love that wording. The website has announced the launch of the new CalorieKing Mobile Web Site, mobile.calorieking.com. This site allows anyone with an web enabled mobile phone or smartphone to search CalorieKing’s 50,000 item food database for details including calories, carbohydrates, fat, protein and more. And the service is free.
Members of CalorieKing Club, CalorieKing’s subscription-based online weight management community, can now access their member account to answer schedule-sensitive questions like: Should I …
Date: September 11th, 2007 |
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Travel Jobs: Adventure Ambassador for Fresh Tracks Travel
Want to travel for work, but you’re just not the savvy business person? Don’t we all. Fresh Tracks Travel has a heck of a “job” for adventurous travelers out there. Okay, it’s more of a free trip than an actual job, but certainly worth looking in to if you have big plans coming up.
Fresh Tracks Travel is based in Vancouver, Canada, and is an independent travel and adventure company. My kinda people. They are looking for people to fill the roll of Adventure Ambassadors, which …
Date: September 6th, 2007 |
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Zen Green Tea Liqueur Photograpy Contest
Need a little side project while you’re on the road. I always do. I’ve taken thousands of photos over the years during my business travels. This could be a fun thing for all you wanna-be photographers, with a great payoff in the end. Between now and December 15, 2007, ZEN Green Tea Liqueur is holding a photography contest (for people 21 and over) to answer in picture the question: “What is Modern Zen?” Green tea liqueur actually sounds pretty gross, but I’ll try anything (with booze …
Date: September 5th, 2007 |
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Book Your Poker Tournament Seat Online
PTseats.com is a spanking new online booking service like no other. You don’t book hotel rooms or car rentals or boring Grey Line tours, you book a slot for your gambling habit - tickets for poker tournaments. Awesome!
The websites first casino partner is the Trump Taj Mahal, located right down the street (kind of) from the Business Travel Logue in beautiful Atlantic City, New Jersey. The on-line booking agency provides “fast, secure and convenient tickets to play poker at tournaments anywhere in the United States.” That sounds handy.
According to Fabricio Schaffrath, the company’s founder, …
Date: August 30th, 2007 |
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