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Travel problems

Many things can go wrong on a business trip. Would you know what to say if they did? Take our test and find out.

Business Skills: Conference hotels

One important way to learn about business trends and to meet people in your field is to attend international conferences. Let’s look at some words for talking about the facilities in a conference hotel.

Vocabulary: Skill up! — Business travel

Going on a business trip can be exciting — or it can be awful. There are different words that you can use in English to describe the length of your travels and your means of transport. Here's Ken Taylor, with an exercise on travel vocabulary.

Skill Up! (7)

“Anyone can go by horse or rail, but the absolute best way to travel is by hat,” says Johnny Depp in Alice in Wonderland. Unfortunately, business travel usually takes place by plane, train or car. This issue of Skill Up! presents the words you will need to talk about your business trips and your daily commute.

On the road

I can come up with some pretty good excuses for not keeping to my fitness regime when I have to go on business trips. Such as: "I'm only taking hand luggage so I don't have room for my running shoes".

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Networking at the CeBit. Photo: Deutsche Messe Hannover

Trade fair collocations

We've created a test to help you improve your vocabulary for attending a trade fair. First, you form some word partnerships (collocations), and then you create some typical trade fair questions using the collocations.

Business traveller

If you have to travel a lot, make sure that you know how to save time. Read how to improve your business travel skills — and improve your travel vocabulary at the same time — by doing our exercise.

Travel, trip or journey?

Travel, trip and journey are words that can be easily confused. We've created a test to help. Complete the following sentences by choosing the correct word. For example, do we say business "trip" or "journey"?

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