| Travelling one million miles in a year on business | | | | benefits. Booking all flights and paying for all hotel |
| sounds like it doesn't leave a lot of time for the | | | | accommodation and incidental expenses on one card |
| actual business, but the travel rewards are certainly | | | | soon racks up the loyalty points. By using certain |
| worth it and one lucky Canadian takes full advantage. | | | | cards such as AMEX Platinum, for example, there are |
| President of ESP Wholesale, Merrick Falkenstein, | | | | a host of concierge services available exclusively to |
| reckons that he racks up a million miles per year | | | | card holders and that is the card that Falkenstein |
| travelling twice a month to see suppliers in China and | | | | currently uses. But, it is just one of many that offer |
| regularly flying to other far-flung places around North | | | | similar benefits, and like all rewards programs |
| America and the rest of the world. | | | | applicants should consider how the benefits suit them |
| Spending so much time travelling and staying in hotels | | | | before committing. |
| around the world qualifies Toronto-based Falkenstein | | | | Many hotel chains offer their own guest reward |
| for rewards programs by the dozen including | | | | program, and depending upon where he stays in |
| frequent flyer miles and hotel loyalty programs. The | | | | North America, or indeed the world, Falkenstein has a |
| biggest challenge that Falkenstein faces is keeping | | | | choice of several - allowing him to accumulate a |
| track of the benefits he's racked up, and how he's | | | | range of offers, such as free overnight stays and |
| going to use them. Imagine the number of free | | | | upgrades at a selection of hotels. |
| flights or upgrades you could accumulate just by | | | | But, the real beauty of travelling so often for |
| travelling to China twice a month, never mind all the | | | | Falkenstein is that, because he accumulates so many |
| other domestic and international flights that | | | | air miles each year he can't spend them all and so |
| Falkenstein takes. But, the well-traveled Canadian | | | | turns to his employees to help him out. He says: "The |
| doesn't have to imagine how many free hotel nights | | | | good thing is that I'm able to transfer a lot of air |
| and free flights he can earn, his problems is finding | | | | miles to other cards and use them for my |
| the time to cash them all in! | | | | employees, meaning that a lot of my staff and not |
| Using one credit card to coordinate his entire travel | | | | just me, benefit from my frequent travelling. |
| budget offers another opportunity to score major | | | | |