Business trips can be an excellent opportunity to catch up on leisure reading. Whether you're on an aeroplane, in a hotel room, or just waiting for an appointment, there's always time to read. And one great way to make sure you're taking care of yourself while on the go is by reading about fingernail care. By learning how to keep your nails healthy and looking their best, you can take advantage of any downtime during a business trip and ensure your nails are in tip-top condition. These days, with plenty of tips and tricks available, it's easy to find information about proper fingernail care that keeps your hands looking beautiful no matter where you are.

Of course, flying can be a great opportunity to break from the everyday life's hustle and bustle. But being stuck on a plane for hours can be tedious and uncomfortable. However, there are plenty of ways to make the most of this time. You can make the experience enjoyable and productive with a little creativity. From reading books to listening to podcasts, there are ways to while away the time on a plane. Whether you're on a long-haul flight or just taking a short hop, there are many ways to maximimize time-use in the air. Yes, if you are on a plane for hours, it can be hard to pass the time. You can relax and watch a movie or play games with your fellow passengers.

You can bring along a laptop or tablet and use the aeroplane's Wi-Fi connection to get some work done, watch movies or TV shows on streaming services such as Netflix or Hulu, or play online games with other passengers. If you don't have any electronic devices with you, there are still plenty of ways to pass the time. Yes, you can read books and magazines, listen to music on your headphones, chat with other passengers and even play board games. But nothing beats some leisure reading on a business trip.

Further, business trips can provide time for yourself and relax. Reading can help you take your mind off the stress of travelling, helping you focus on enjoyable things. As noted, one type of reading that is particularly helpful when travelling is fingernail care books. Such books provide helpful tips and tricks on keeping your nails healthy and looking their best, even on the go. With these, you can learn how to care for your nails while travelling, ensuring that they’re in top condition throughout the trip.

While business trips can be long and tedious, with some planning, you can make the most of your time. Leisure reading is one way to make the most of the trip and ensure you’re refreshed and energized. Whether you're looking for something light-hearted or something more serious, leisure reading on a business trip can provide an escape from the stress and monotony of travel. By taking the time to read during your trip, you’ll come back feeling more productive and inspired by new ideas.

With leisure reading, you have a great opportunity to catch up on your favourite books and explore new authors and genres. With the right selection of books, you can make your trip productive. Further, general reading has been shown to improve cognitive performance; taking time out for leisure reading during business trips can boost your productivity.

So, while business trips are often seen as a chore, they can be ideal for reading. Taking the time to read during a business trip can help you rejuvenate and feel refreshed. Further, leisure reading can provide valuable insights that could be useful in business dealings. Whether you're looking for something entertaining or educational, there's something out there to make your trip enjoyable. Hence, with the right selection of books and magazines, you can make the most of your time.

As we know, business trips can be exciting and exhausting at the same time. While you have the opportunity to explore new places and cultures, it can be draining due to the long hours of work. Nevertheless, leisure reading allows you to learn something new about yourself or your field of work. And you can pick from a variety of books, including novels, biographies, and travel guides-it all depends on your interests and preferences.

Coupa Software (NASDAQ: COUP), a leader in Business Spend Management (BSM), has been positioned in the Leaders Category in both the Enterprise and Midmarket IDC MarketScape for Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Travel and Expense Applications.

This is the third time IDC has recognized Coupa for its Travel and Expense (T&E) solution. IDC named Coupa as a Leader based on its heavy investment in applied AI through Community.ai, strength in tirelessly integrating customer feedback, and steadfast focus on delivering user-centric design.

"We're incredibly proud to be recognized by IDC as a Leader in T&E. Building from the ground up with our customers has allowed us to co-innovate features that were a necessity but also deliver a radically different solution. By harnessing the power of Coupa's platform and trillions of dollars of spending, our T&E solution provides organizations with powerful benchmarking and prescriptive recommendations to help increase efficiency and drive greater savings," said Raja Hammoud, executive vice president of products at Coupa.

The IDC MarketScape found Coupa's open spirit of cooperation and co-innovation with customers to be a key strength. The report states, "Customers often pick Coupa and stay with Coupa over other vendors due to the strong emphasis on ensuring customer success and thoughtfully addressing customer needs and feedback."

Bowery, the largest vertical farming company in the United States, designs and builds smart indoor environments to reimagine the future of food. Through its network of smart indoor farms and proprietary end-to-end technology, Bowery is transforming the entire fresh food supply chain to be simpler, safer, and vastly more sustainable.

"We need a platform that can scale and move forward with us. With Coupa, everything is connected, automated, and streamlined," said David Hose, director of financial systems, Bowery. "Centralized spend visibility is critical to cost management and with Coupa, we're able to enforce end-to-end compliance allowing us to capture all T&E spend — both before and after expenses are incurred — to control costs and reduce spend leakages wherever opportunities exist."

Coupa's solution is distinct from anything else in the industry today because of three key components: User-Centric Experience: User-friendly design accelerates adoption while reducing program management headaches and eliminating the need for travelers to book off-channel. Unified T&E Management: Comprehensive T&E management in a single, seamless solution that eliminates silos and optimizes every dollar spent by integrating across the BSM platform. Community-Driven Insights: AI-powered insights from Coupa's $4T+ of anonymized global community travel and expense data provide intelligent travel recommendations, savings opportunities, and business benchmarks.

Coupa is the cloud-based Business Spend Management (BSM) platform that unifies processes across supply chain, procurement, and finance functions. Coupa empowers organizations around the world to maximize value and operationalize purpose through their business spend.

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

Cheryl Andrews is the president of the Cheryl Andrews Marketing Communications. She is determined to make the most of every trip she does. Cheryl, who is a frequent traveler, said that she hopes to include one event related to beauty or culture into every trip abroad. Cheryl did not waste time in following through on these resolutions. She’s already planning to fly into London just before a business trip. In this journey, she will tour the Victoria & Albert Museum. She will also attend a classical concert event. Cheryl’s example tells us that a business traveler needs to plan well to enjoy a trip abroad.

Leon Rbibo is another seasoned traveler who shares the same interest with Cheryl. Leon travels to several destinations frequently. Among these are Tahiti, Hong Kong and Japan. He makes the trips to promote his jewel company that is based in Los Angeles. The company is known as The Pearl Source. One of Leon’s cherished resolutions is to extend his arrival and departure by one day. The game -plan is to land in a day earlier and staying on a day more. The extra time would help him get an extra enjoyment of some of the places he visits on business.

There are a few wise tips that anyone can use when travelling. For instance, it is easy to get into the habit of eating junk food. This can happen mostly when you are jet lagged and eat out. At such times, it is always difficult to keep up with your exercise routine. It is always important for business travelers to try and stay fit, exercising on-the-go while traveling, and going to the hotel fitness centers, enjoying outside sports in the cities they visit, enjoying nature and always trying to eat healthy.

It is a well known fact that travelling can be stressful and unsettling. Try to stay calm. Try to do that even if it means you must take deliberate steps to meditate or reduce on caffeine.

Jamie Sigler, who is the founding partner at the San Diego-based J Public Relations, plans to set aside time for daily meditation, keeping calm and carrying on when he’s traveling for work. Sigler's colleague, Ali Lundberg, also plans to carry along her running shoes so as to explore urban trails.

Obviously, as a business professional, you have lots of personal and confidential information stored on your electronic devices. It is important to take steps to protect yourself online since this is where you mostly work.

David Grubb, who is the president of Tribeca CMIT Solutions, encourages clients to take steps to improve their security so that they work safely online. Indeed, he says that a businessman should be as safe online as he is on the regular road going back to his home. Tribeca is an IT solutions and services company.

Grubb recommends that business people should back up all data, update passwords, and keep off public Wi-Fi (this includes free airport networks). He says this is essential because such networks are often insecure. He advises businesspeople to use these authentications for all personal, financial or purchasing transactions.

Grubb says that, to stay healthy and fit, it is crucial to exercise. The workouts should, however, comprise only 20% of the effort. Ultimately, 80% of the work involves nutrition. He advises that, if there must be change, it should involve your plans for dinner and cutting out the snacks. Yes, losing weight and staying healthy is a matter that is always active on most people’s resolutions list.

The chief marketing officer at Deal News, Jared Blank, advises against falling into a rut of eating at the same restaurants in the same cities and putting up in the same hotels whenever you travel. Deal News is an Alabama-based shopping comparison site. To spice things up, Jared says, they should avoid repeating such cycles in the places they go to. This is what makes a business trip to be fun.

Gayle B. MacIntyre, an official of the Global Ink Communications, advises that it is wise, as a frequent traveler, to cut out on such stuff as peanuts, cookies, and pretzels. Remember that, empty calories usually add up for people who travel frequently.

It is also wise not to rush up your connecting flights. Even though there are people who do not like hanging around the airport, it is still wise to have three to four hours separating the flights. This is an excellent way to cut down on stress.

Most business people usually consider location factors first when thinking about where to get the best accommodation. And there is generally a good reason for this. A typical business man or woman has to contend with quite a few things while on such a trip.

Their hands are usually tied by such factors as giving important presentations, attendance of scheduled meetings, and constant commuting to these destinations. For these reasons, the actual location of the hotel which will give the accommodation is quite important. Yes, indeed: it is a top priority. For example a businessman travelling to a new place will have to stay close to the conference or convention venue. Doing this will facilitate traveling to the meeting place. He can do this in a short time and conveniently so. Yes, a smart businessman or hotel owner whose property is built near important convention centers should do everything to advertise the establishment and make travelers know the rates and availability.

Moreover, it is only natural to speak to business travelers, colleagues, and clients because such people generally need to be constantly connected. It is very important for them to be able to join a video meeting, access email or open large files quickly and efficiently. These are the reasons why most business travelers usually seek hotels that offer facilities like fast WiFi other forms of Internet access.

According to a recent revelation by Google, more than 65% of business travelers usually utilize a hotel loyalty program. For this reason, one of the best ways for most hotels to keep the customers returning is to offer a special loyalty program, free upgrades and other services. Generally, a business traveler needs to locate a hotel that would meet their set criteria. Apparently, most business travelers tend to be more loyal to specific hotels than leisure travelers.

A business traveler finds it quite important to get a hotel that offers necessary amenities, enabling him to prepare for work each morning. Such amenities include a coffee maker, a continental breakfast, iron and ironing board and other necessary provisions for the morning prep. A business traveler usually needs to unwind in the hotel room after a long day at work. It is, therefore, important to have a minibar, working air conditioner or fully equipped bathroom to satisfy the needs of such clients. Leisure travelers, contrasted with business travelers, are generally more sensitive on issues to do with prices. For this reason, they often search for cheaper prices rather than a place offering specific amenities. Generally, they have no intention to spend lots of time in their hotel rooms.

Indeed, a 2014 Traveler Study by Google reveals that 63% of leisure travelers are quite sensitive on matters of pricing when deciding on the best hotel to book. Leisure travelers want a hotel that is suitable for their purposes. They want the best deal along the way. This is precisely why it is essential for hotels to provide a functional search engine for these kind of leisure travelers to access accommodation that suits their budgets. Leisure travelers should wisely consider recommendations and reviews. Interestingly, most of these travelers often seem to rely on advice by family, colleagues, friends, and online reviews to guide them in making a decision. Business travelers, on their part, usually rely more on recommendations by companies and online reviews.

According to the study by Google's Traveler, 82% of leisure travelers generally think that reviews are important. This compares to 77% of business travelers. A copious amount of negative reviews generally lead most holidaymakers to choose a rival hotel. Clearly, it is important for smart hoteliers to resolve issues and quickly respond to reviews on their websites. Considering that leisure travelers typically rely on these recommendations, a hotel referral program would offer lots of benefits to the business.

Leisure travelers generally want to maximize on a vacation experience. They want hotels that offer a holiday package, including large events, walking tours, popular destinations, family itineraries, fun, romantic getaways and more. They appreciate it when their favorite hotels offer a restaurant, fitness area, and a pool. It is clear that business and leisure travelers seek different interests when choosing the appropriate hotel to use.

There are always some exciting new opportunities every year. Whether you are traveling for business or leisure, it is important to make the most of these. A business traveler is not expected to stick to the usual 9-5 schedule or get weekends off. This is because traveling usually takes over one’s whole life. What does this mean? Have great fun while traveling. Have a simple delicious meal, if that is what it takes.

Visit a museum, if possible. Make the most of your business or leisure trip.