Business trip

Have you ever been on a business trip? Do your memories reflect flying in a comfortable plane or being in a compartment with someone eating chicken right after departure? We're looking into peculiarities of business trips.

Recommended sources:

1. How to arrive 

2. How to travel to a sales conference

3. http://www.businessenglishpod.com/category/travel/

Listen to essential vocabulary

1	arrive in/at	to reach a place, especially at the end of a journey / прибувати
2	appointment	a formal arrangement to meet or visit someone at a particular time and place / зустріч
3	baggage reclaim	the place where you collect your luggage / видача багажу
4	B&B	a room to sleep in for the night and a morning meal half-board (2 meals); full-board (3 meals)
5	be airsick	having the feeling that you will vomit because of the movement of an aircraft you are travelling in / погано почувати себе в літаку
6	be liable to duty/ duty free	you have to pay or not to pay customs duties/ оподатковуватися або не оподатковуватися
7	boarding card/pass	a card that a passenger must have to be allowed to enter an aircraft or a ship / посадочний талон
8	book	to reserve / бронювати
9	business card	a small card that has your name, company name, and the job you do printed on it / візитка
10	business trip	a journey in which you go somewhere, usually for a short time, and come back again / відрядження
11	check in	to show your ticket at an airport so that you can be told where you are sitting and so that your bags can be put on the aircraft/ проходити реєстрацію, поселятись в готель
12	check out	to leave a hotel after paying and giving back the key of your room / виселятись
13	compartment	one of the separate areas inside a vehicle, especially a train / вагон
14	customs	the place at a port, airport or border where travellers' bags are looked at to find out if any goods are being carried illegally / customs officer / митниця
15	declare	to officially tell someone the value of goods you have bought, or the amount of money you have earned because you might have to pay tax / декларувати
16	depart	to go away or leave, especially on a journey / відбувати
17	departure lounge	the area in an airport where passengers wait before getting onto an aircraft / зал очікувань в аеропорту
18	flight	a journey in an aircraft/ рейс, політ
19	hotel room	готельний номер / single room; double room; twin room
20	how do you do	a formal greeting for someone that you have not met before
21	inclusive	including the first and last date or number stated / включно
22	international passport	passport you use to travel abroad / закордонний паспорт
23	invitation letter	written when someone is asked to go to an event / запрошення
24	itinerary	a detailed plan or route of a journey / маршрут
25	jet lag	the feeling of tiredness and confusion which people experience after making a long journey in an aircraft to a place where the time is different from the place they left
26	left-luggage room	the place where you can leave your luggage / камера схову
27	sleeping car	a railway carriage containing beds for passengers to sleep in / вагон
28	subway	metro; underground; tube / метро
29	suite	a luxurious hotel room / номер люкс
30	visa	an official mark made in a passport which allows you to enter or leave a particular country entrance/entry visa — в'їздна віза exit visa — виїздна віза to apply for a visa — звертатися за візою to grant a visa — відкривати візу to put a visa on a passport – поставити візу у паспорті

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