Sylwia Majtczak - Mixing Travel and Family

For many businessmen and women who must travel regularly it is hard to keep a strong focus on their family. As a corporate travel consultant for Altour and working mother, Sylwia Majtczak knows how hard it can be to leave family behind for a business trip. However, it is important to ensure a proper balance between traveling for your career and prioritizing family.

 

Many regular business travelers say the need to be constantly on the move between locations and the inability to spend time with family creates stress and frustration. Family members that are unable to join business trips can feel jealous of the business traveler or excluded from the traveler's experiences. For a business traveler, each trip rarely includes time for sightseeing or vacationing and is generally filled with meetings and work instead. This can create tension and lead to more frustration and stress.

While away on a business trip, it is often difficult to call family every day. However, a call every two to three days can help everyone feel more comfortable. As well, directing the conversation to include activities the family is doing in your absence can build a sense of interest in them, minimizing the feeling of exclusion.

Most importantly, when you return home from a trip, make sure you are spending out of work hours engaging with family and friends. Sylwia Majtczak spends time with her daughter as often as they can, even if it is only over the phone. She knows this not only builds strong family ties but helps relieve the stress of a hard day at work.

Sylwia Majtczak - Where to Go Next

Most travelers have a favorite destination they like to return to when they can, but it can also be exciting to visit a new location. Researching and planning a vacation takes a lot of time and work, but with preparation a trip to a new destination can be more exciting than a trip to a favorite vacation spot. Sylwia Majtczak, a corporate travel consultant at Altour, loves to travel to new destinations and learn about other cultures. Some great vacation spots are:

• San Francisco, California, United States. San Francisco offers great views of the ocean, impressive historic scenery, and exceptional dining.
• Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy. This small village in the southern Alps is in the Veneto region of northern Italy. Like all of Italy it is steeped in hundreds of years of history, and this town offers beautiful views and great skiing in winter.
• Anchorage, Alaska, United States. Anchorage has a wealth of museums and historical sites.
• London, United Kingdom. Although London is a well-known vacation spot, the city offers a lot more than many visitors encounter. Along with the standard attractions, London has great shopping, many parks to visit, and
• Krakow, Poland. Krakow has castles, historical sites, and beautiful churches, as well as a free walking tour of the city.

When planning any trip, it is important to consider the culture of your destination and prepare accordingly. Sylwia Majtczak enjoys studying the cultures in various destinations and uses that knowledge to advise her clients when they are visiting a new location.

Sylwia Majtczak - Agent or Consultant

When most consumers think of using a professional to book travel, they use the term travel agent. In the travel industry, however, there are different roles and different client types handled by travel agents as opposed to travel consultants. The distinctions may seem slight to a consumer, but Sylwia Majtczak is proud to be a corporate travel consultant rather than a corporate travel agent.

The main difference between a travel agent and a travel consultant is in the type of representation they provide. An agent will listen to a client's preferences for a trip and then locate airline tickets and hotels to meet those needs, as well as recommending restaurants and attractions. A consultant can and will do all of that for a client, but also looks at the planning of the trip as a whole. Where an agent might recommend a different hotel than the client initially requested because it has better access to a business venue, a consultant might recommend a different business venue because there are better hotel options nearby and have a secondary recommendation in case the venue cannot be changed.

Travel agents are valuable professionals in the industry and help a lot of travelers plan great trips every year. Nonetheless, Sylwia Majtczak knows the real difference between her job and that of a travel agent is in the level of trust placed in her by her clients. As a result, she works hard to ensure every client is comfortable with a trip before, during, and after their travel so her clients will know their trust is well placed.