That's the bad kind of business travel. I was referring to the ok business travel, e.g. my current favorite: leave for Paris around 8/9, arrive before noon, have a leisurely stroll or do some shopping, go to lunch, arrive at the meeting around 2, finish at 4, go to the hotel and then some bar, meet for dinner around 8/9, get drunk, meet around 9/10 next morning for an extended breakfast, leave around noon at the latest and go straight home. Two full days with at most 3-5 hours of work including phone calls etc. I don't like to do that once or twice a week anymore, but there are plenty of people who do, because they don't have anything better to do.