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Bleisure Travel
Definition
Bleisure Travel: Bleisure travel combines a business trip with leisure time, typically by adding personal days before or after work commitments at or near the same destination.
Bleisure (business plus leisure) has become a standard request: you are already flying to Cape Town or London for work, so you stay the weekend, or a partner joins for a few days after the meetings. Done well, it costs the company little or nothing extra and sends travelers home more rested.
A few policy questions need answers up front. Who pays for the extra hotel nights? If the new return date raises the airfare, does the employee pay the difference? Is the traveler covered by company insurance and duty-of-care support on personal days? Can family members join? Tax treatment of mixed trips can vary, so check with your accountant.
We keep the business and personal portions cleanly separated so expenses are easy to reconcile, and plan the leisure days with the same care. See bleisure travel for how we handle it.
Example: After a three-day conference in Cape Town, you add four personal days in the Winelands, paying for the extra hotel nights yourself while the company covers the flights it would have bought anyway.
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