04/30/2018

Is Business Travel the Key to Empathy?

How travel makes you a more effective leader, communicator

Having your members travel all over the country—or possibly, the world—to attend your events does more good than simply letting them check out a bunch of different convention centers.

It could be giving your attendees a better understanding of the world around them.

A recent study from the hotel chain Hyatt, which spoke to the positive benefits of business travel, found that more than three-quarters of those surveyed (77 percent) said they thought business travel made them more successful in communicating with different kinds of people, another 77 percent said that being on the road taught them skills that they could use later and 68 percent said that they felt it made them more empathetic toward others. These numbers were particularly pronounced for business travelers in China and India.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.