Where do travel itineraries go wrong?
A key component to the success of an itinerary is the way you envisage possible things could go wrong, such as: • Travel hold ups, even minor ones. • Last minute strikes. • Cancelled flights and trains. Other potential problems include: • Your boss’s personality does he usually leave things to the last minute? • Local events which could affect smooth travel arrangements. • Forgetting changes in time and date zones. • Not being specific enough so your boss wastes valuable minutes working out what to do next. Itineraries fall down when they don’t allow for these eventualities. A successful itinerary not only looks to allow for them, but it looks to save your boss time wherever possible. Take our Travel Itinerary Test! Below, we have an imaginary itinerary for SellitKwik Software’s Finance Director Joanne Moss. Joanne lives an hour’s drive from Heathrow and she is off to Paris. Her PA, Sandra, has prepared the itinerary. Without looking at the second version of this itinerary, print this
