This year has seen more travel than in years past for me and it seems that I am getting more and more speaking engagements and have been attending more conferences as well. This week I wrapped up a conference on Tuesday and traveled all day yesterday to get back home only to find out I needed to make travel arrangements again for early next month. I just finished compiling my receipts and the shock was a little high on the price of traveling.

I am not a large corporation that has its own travel department, and in fact I am not even good at trying to earn miles like many of my peers. I am the guy that waits until the last minute and pays the highest possible amount for hotels, cars, and air fares.

I noticed recently that many companies are making arrangements to limit the travel for all of their employees. Even large companies that somehow find ways to fund any travel their employees want. Basically, the price of fuel is beginning to take its toll on employee travel. This is going to have a direct impact on conventions and trade shows in the future. Your boss is not going to allow you to attend an event across the country as the price of flying will be too high to allow it as part of the budget. I hope conventions can make adjustments to this phenomena. In the meantime, don’t procrastinate like I do making travel plans. The sooner you make the plans the better. Fuel prices don’t look to be going down any time soon.

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