CWT's "Travel Stress Index" also found that frequent fliers (over 30 trips per year) get most stress

According to a new study by a corporate travel agency, business travellers suffer free travel guides especially keenly from stress. Using data gleaned from 6,000 travellers, Carlson Wagonlit Travel found that unpleasant 'surprises' like flight delays and luggage loss were the highest free travel guides trigger of stress, especially for female travellers who were also more fazed by 'routine breakers' like not being able to eat healthily.
CWT's "Travel Stress Index" also found that frequent fliers (over 30 trips per year) get most stressed from 'lost time', with factors relating to the reimbursement of expenses, and from flying with a non-preferred airline, adding to their unease.
Because senior air warriors in particular travel so much, their stress levels have no time to drop before they set off on another trip. This is why, CWT says, there's a difference of four 'stress points' between frequent travellers and occasional travellers.
While commending a study into a rarely examined issue, Cary Cooper, distinguished professor free travel guides of organisational psychology and health at Lancaster University Management School, disputes the idea of specific stress triggers to travellers.
"When people are travelling, it's not just about bags and all the rest of it - it's about the whole process: Separation from your family for a period of time; the hassle of the airport; travelling 'cattle class'; problems free travel guides with hotels - it does accumulate up," he said by telephone.
"If I was looking at the impact of travel on my team of marketing people, I would also look at their sickness absence free travel guides rates in contrast with others in different functions; their turnover rate; their performance appraisal compared to others."
Though a comparison of stress between solo travellers and those journeying with companions was not included in the CWT study, it did find that business free travel guides travellers with partners and families found that being on the road during weekends was significantly more stressful.
Professor Cooper, who has the luxury of travelling with his wife on business, thinks it is important free travel guides for frequent travellers to bring colleagues, their spouse, or an older daughter or son with them to offset the inherent loneliness of being away from home. "If the person feels more relaxed, free travel guides can unwind quicker, can get over the jetlag better, they will perform better."
In a smaller study which recently probed the emotional health of business travellers, Fairfield Inn and Suites, a Marriott brand of select service hotel, found that the more one travels, the more likely they are to travel alone, with female travellers finding it more important than men to have someone to talk to.
Only 16 per cent of the 1,000 respondents in this survey reported free travel guides feelings of stress, but 38 per cent said they missed important events in their home life. In their report, free travel guides Fairfield stress the importance of pre and post-trip planning to reduce stress.
Shruti Buckley, global brand manager for Fairfield Inn and Suites said in an interview she was surprised at the positive results, knowing how taxing and tough business travel can be, adding free travel guides that hotel firms like hers are trying to create an environment where travellers can meet other people.
"Is there a difference on traveller's attitude, tiredness, performance? Businesses think they're making a saving; free travel guides but you get someone in a really tired, exhausted state going to do a deal and what happens?"
Adaptive travel policies are the way forward, thinks CWT. Vincent Lebunetel, co-author of its report, says he would recommend that clients take travellers' situations further into consideration. For example, free travel guides "segmenting between those who are single, and those in couples or who have children, have a lot of stress travelling over the weekend or in trips of over three days."
For their part, Fairfield Inn and Suites are using the results of their research free travel guides to increase co-working hubs in guestrooms for colleagues to share, and, like a number of other properties, are working on their lobbies to "create spaces that inspire and encourage people to gather."