LONDON FOR LEARNERS

We relaunch our series of audio guides for business travellers

                                                                             

What does a business visitor to London need to know aboutthe city? If

remotely possible, avoid the airports and arrive by train, stay in one of the lesser-known hotels and don’t discuss sex at the dinner table.

A new audio guide, which you can download from our website, takes travellers through the pitfalls of London life by explaining the right etiquette both for meetings and for pubs, and showing how to earn the approval of British counterparts. Hold off on the wine at lunch, shop for souvenirs at Fortnum & Mason, and if you do have to use Heathrow airport, consider taking the Underground. If you’re delayed, you’ll be able to curse the transport like any good Londoner.

This is the first of 32 new guides to doing business in cities around the world that we will be rolling out over the next 20 months, to update our existing set. Negotiating airports, getting around town, choosing hotels and restaurants, selecting souvenirs, filling time between meetings, and working—and indeed playing—with the locals are all covered.To listen to the guide visit:

 (Economist.com/audiovideo/doingbusiness)