"The reason is congestion and traffic," says consultant based in Los Angeles in the hospitality industry who has spent 100 nights away from home this year. "It's not easy to get around the city or of the booths at the wrong time, and I find it intimidating and crowded subway."
Although many business travelers and hardened Manask traveled from one end of the earth to another, the prospect of visiting some cities - especially large - it can still be formidable.
In a survey of frequent business travelers that provide information to the U.S. Way of the Warrior today Roundtable, New York and Los Angeles are cited more often than any other city to create a tension before a business trip.
And 'stressful driving in the city to be stuck in traffic and hope that "I do not have late meetings," said Michael Greguric and Manitowoc, WI, sales in the tourism sector.
Robert Bender, architect Lenexa, Kansas, which also has the opportunity to work trips to New York or Los Angeles, says: "The bigger the city, the more you need to think through each step of your journey."
Is the list of issues as it moves either to the city:
• Where is the meeting?
• It 'a secure part of the city?
• Can I take public transportation, and what leads I need to know?
• What is the timing of the machine to get a meeting?
• Do I have to fly in the night before and leave the next day to report on traffic and time of flight?
• How much money should I take?
Psychologist Nancy Molitor of Wilmette, Illinois, explained that the idea of congestion, high prices and high crime areas highlights some traveling before arriving in New York or Los Angeles. The two cities also have "big, sprawling airports" that "many frequent travelers do not like because of delays and cancellations of soil is abundant."
They may also worry that "they will be lost, ripped off by taxi drivers and other service workers, or simply being overwhelmed by the high density, noise and a lot of people."
Molitor, an assistant professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Northwestern University, says that many business trips, before blaming the stress of "hustle" or congestion in a big city, "but I think it's really more afraid of the unknown."
Psychologists call this "anticipatory anxiety," he says. Travelers can worry about getting lost, you overpay or get robbed.
Greguric to reduce stress in New York and Los Angeles by train in the gym, sitting in the jacuzzi or visit the "main attraction that interests me '
Joe Harvey, a software consultant in Lafayette, Louisiana, who has spent over 300 nights away from home this year, feels stressed by the toll roads and urban driving, especially in Chicago.
To reduce stress, advises hiring a driver or get the card from a taxi driver and that person's use only. Recommends also find restaurants "can safely walk" and walk or run to get some air and "feel the atmosphere of the place."
Harvey also try to reduce stress at home before the trip.
"Before a trip, as I sit on my porch with a coffee and a newspaper in the morning before getting ready to go to the airport," he said. "I look at the flower beds, pulling a few weeds and fresh air with a hint of the Gulf of Mexico in it. It is very relaxing. "
Virginia Williams, sales manager for a company that sells products for children, he says, no matter how often you go to Los Angeles, she will never feel safe in the city, and its "pre-tour shows all come to life "there. He feels the pressure of city traffic and highway system and concerns about leaving Los Angeles airport on time.
Williams, in Dothan, Alabama, she says reduces stress by trying to "plan my appointments smart" and stay in a hotel in the center.
Before traveling to a city perceived as stressful, business travelers should "step back" and I wonder exactly what is stressed, Molitor said, and if it is a realistic fear and control.
"If it is under my control - things like weather and traffic - how I can put aside these things and focus on what is in my control," she said, "Make a plan of control. What can and let go I can not control. "
When the business to identify what is a stressful, sometimes understand their concerns are related to one of them struggling at home, or even earlier in life, a psychologist says.
Perhaps the stress of travel occurring on the anniversary of the death of a mother, or it makes it impossible to attend the installation of a maid of honor in society. "The more you can focus on the real source of stress, the more you will help determine the correction to be made."
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