From spend to save

In the dark and distant pre-computer days, you could tell when one of your colleagues was about to embark on a business trip if they were seen poring over one of two huge tomes normally kept in the cupboard that served as the office library.

’When the economic crunch came, many companies put a block on staff staying in five-star hotels’

Before the internet the was the volume that business travellers or their travel much loved by Michael Portillo in his TV series. It was a definitive guide to each and every scheduled flight anywhere in the world, but not the sort of thing you’d want to carry around with you.