AmTrav Blog
Insights, tricks and tips to help you deliver a great business travel program & traveller experience for your organization.
How Airport Lounges Profoundly Impact Productivity
If you’ve ever sat by the gate awaiting your flight, wishing your portable charger hadn’t run out of juice, balancing your PC on your lap trying to work, absentmindedly leaning back and then forward i...
Rental Car Insurance: To Buy or Not to Buy? What You Need to Know
It is nearly impossible these days to purchase anything without some form of extended warranty or supplemental insurance coverage being offered right at the point of sale. From major appliances on dow...
The Business Travel Glass Ceiling: How Female Travelers Are Impacting Air, Hotel and Car Companies
Of the 488 million business trips taken yearly, women business travelers comprise 46% of them. How does this demographic shift affect the travel industry? Well, in ways that you probably can’t imagine...
The “Smart” Luggage Ban: How to Plan For It
Smart luggage is officially dumb. At this writing, in a rare act of solidarity, all of the major U.S. airlines have joined together in banning all smart luggage without removable batteries. Additional...
The Business Traveler’s New Year’s Resolutions: 2018 Edition
In 2018, our wish for you is that your business travel life becomes less frenetic and more kinetic. To that end, here are five things to consider in reaping the potential joy of business travel for al...
Vegan Business Travelers: Your Guide to Eating In Flight
If there was ever a good time to be vegan, it’s now. Food options–even in New Orleans over Thanksgiving–are plentiful. The same is true for today’s in-flight meals. Virtually every airline offers vega...
Dealing with Serious Hurricane Situations While Running a Nationwide Sales Business
Guest post by our own Dewey Warner – Director, Business Development In early September, a mere weeks after Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas, Hurricane Irma came barrelling towards Florida. For a Ke...
The 5 Haunted Hotel Destinations You’ll Want to Seek Out This Halloween
Although most of us would shudder at the thought of encountering a real, live ghostly apparition, there’s an entire population who relish the idea and travel the country seeking out the country’s most...
The AmTrav 2017 List: Top 15 Business Travel Apps
The clever apps your fellow road warriors are chatting up make business travel easier than ever before. The likelihood you’re using travel apps depends on the year you were born. While one-fifth of Ba...