Hit the Ground Running Author:Mark H. McCormack The Ultimate Travel Guide — This insightful insider's guide to executive travel offers a truly practical portable guide that provides "Street-Smart" advice from one of the world's most successful and traveled businessmen, Mark H. McCormack. — Travel with the most unassuming luggage you can tolerate. The uglier the better. Fancy luggage may comport... more » with your personal sense of style, but it just screams out "steal me!"
Use who you are. Don't underestimate your clout with hotels, airlines and restaurants. As a business traveler you are the very customer they value most, a repeat customer. You really are number one!
Never accept a room if the door next to it doesn't have a number on it. A door without a number usually means your neighbor is a housekeeping closet or the room for ice-making and vending machines.
Don't stay at any hotel where you get the feeling that you could be anywhere or that you could be anyone. The "best hotel in the world" is the hotel you're best known in.
When negotiating a solution to a hotel snafu, do it in public. Hotels and airlines are more accommodating if it will avoid a 'scene'.« less