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Marco Polo. Ferdinand Magellan, Lewis and Clark, Ernest Shackleton, Neil Armstrong.

Some of the most recognizable names in history were great adventurers.

For Marco Polo's 15,000-mile journey through Asia to Neil Armstrong's nearly half a

a million mile round trip to the moon, high achievers have often been great travelers.

Today, successful leaders still leave home to seek their fortune. Every day some 1.3 million people go on a business trip.

That adds up to more than 488 million business travelers each

year and one third of them travel by air. A major airport is one of the busiest

places on earth. Hub cities like Chicago, Atlanta, and Dallas may handle over 24,000 flights a day.

All that travel takes time and money. The average traveler spends between 48 and 74 nights a year on the road.

And together we spend nearly 320 billion on business travel.

We fly to conferences, drive to sales meetings, take the train to meet with clients, we travel for professional training to pitch new ideas and to meet with colleagues.

And the pace is increasing.

38% of business travelers say they expect to travel more in the days ahead.

Long distance travel is difficult.

There are delays, security hassles, jet lag, traffic, missed connections.

The combination can be stressful and exhausting.

Every business traveler has at least one disaster story from life on the road.

Mary Weather Lewis studied astronomy, medicine, surveying,

mathematics, and anatomy before leading the Cora discovery on its two-year

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