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THE 10 BEST Things to Do in Moulins

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1. Maison Mantin

2. CNCS - Centre national du costume et de la scène

3. Musée de la Visitation

4. Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonciation

5. Musée Anne de Beaujeu

6. Musée de l'Illustration Jeunesse

7. La Mal Coiffée - Château des Ducs de Bourbon

8. Pont De Fer

9. La Plaine des Champins

10. Eglise du Sacre-Cœur de Moulins

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12. Médiathèque Samuel Paty (Moulins Communauté)

13. Jacquemart tower

14. Musée Du Bâtiment

15. le sentier des castors, 16. les caves bertine, 17. centre aqualudique l'ovive, 18. forêt de bagnolet, 19. espace naturel sensible les coqueteaux, 20. promenade sur les berges de l'allier, 21. chapelle saint-joseph - ancienne visitation, 22. maison du doyenné, 23. réserve naturelle nationale du val d'allier, 24. circuit "la cueillette des champignons".

25. Galerie Vitalone

26. Hôtel De Paris Spa

27. Intermarché

28. La Cave a Chocolat

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• La Plaine des Champins
• Le sentier des castors
• Réserve naturelle nationale du val d'Allier
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• Promenade sur les berges de l'Allier
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A cultural getaway in Moulins : travel guide

In the middle of France, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, the city of Moulins is an ideal destination for a cultural getaway weekend . With its cathedral, its numerous museums but also its charming historical center, this city is perfect for a change of scenery. How to get there? What is there to discover? Here is a practical guide to prepare your next trip to Moulins .

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• When to go? Moulins is especially appreciated for its historical center and its numerous cultural places. Most of your visits will take place indoors, which allows you to discover the city all year round.
• How long will I stay there? The city is not big and can easily be discovered during a day. But if you want to take the time to visit all the museums, it is preferable to plan two days or more on site.
• How to get there? From Paris or Lyon, you only need 2h30 by train. Only 1 hour from Clermont-Ferrand. Coming from these three cities it is therefore easy to plan a round trip for the day. By car, Moulins’ location in the center of France makes it easy to reach from many other cities.
• How to get around Moulins ? If you go there by train, the train station is only 800 meters from the historic center, so it is easy to do everything on foot. If walking is not your favorite activity, a bus network serves all the tourist sites and the train station from Monday to Saturday, every half hour.
• Who is it for? Alone, in couple or with friends, provided you have an interest in culture and heritage. A stay with the family is also possible thanks to the facilities provided for children in the museums. However, avoid with the very young: the cobblestone streets will not make stroller rides easy!

Good tip: the Moulins CityPass

If you wish to visit the most of the cultural places of Moulins, consider the CityPass. Sold at the tourist office for 16 € per day, 25 € for two days or 30 € for three days, it offers unlimited access to museums and city tours. In addition, this pass offers free access to the bus network.

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Stroll in the historical center.

Founded in 990 the city reached its peak between 1327 and 1527 when it was at the head of the Duchy of Bourbonnais. The court was then frequented by famous artists of the Renaissance.

A stroll through the historic center allows you to travel through the history of the city, from the Middle Ages to the beginning of the 20th century. You will certainly fall under the charm of the cobbled streets, half-timbered and timber-framed houses.

Enter in the cathedral

The cathedral of Moulins has a particularly original architecture linked to its history. It was indeed built in two stages: its choir is the vestige of the former collegiate church of the 15th century, while its nave and its two bell towers date from an extension of primitive Gothic style of the 19th century.

Inside, you can discover the Triptych of the Master of Moulins, a masterpiece representing the Virgin in glory.

Entrance to the cathedral is free, but admission to the Triptych is subject to a fee (€3, €2 for those under 20 – included in the CityPass).

Visit the Mantin House

Beware, you’ll fall in love with this place! We owe the Mantin House to Louis Mantin, sub-prefect, collector, scholar and art lover. Coming from a wealthy family and an annuitant at the age of 42, he had this superb house built where he housed a rich collection.

When he died in 1905, he bequeathed the house to the community “so as to show visitors in a hundred years a home of a 19th century bourgeois”. Damaged by time, this house was the subject of a vast restoration campaign in the 2000s and has been open to the public again since 2010.

The Mantin House can be discovered on a guided tour with a ticket including a free visit of the Anne de Beaujeu Museum (see below). 8 € per adult, 6 € for 16 to 25 year olds, free for under 16 year olds and CityPass holders.

Discover the Anne de Beaujeu Museum

Located right next to the Maison Mantin, the Anne de Beaujeu Museum is considered a “small Louvre ” as its collection is so varied, ranging from archaeology to 19th century painting, including medieval Bourbon sculptures, decorative art from the Moulins and Egyptian mummies!

Not to be missed, the Painting Salon which presents a superb collection of the second half of the 19th century (Gérôme, Laurens, Henner, Cabanel, Meissonier…). The presentation of the artworks, very dense, resumes that of the Parisian “salons” which revealed the contemporary artistic production.

Full price €5; €3 for 16-25 year olds; free for under 16 year olds and CityPass holders.

Go to the CNCS ( National Center for Stage Costume)

Since 2006, the city of Moulins has been home to an unexpected but exciting museum: the National Center for Stage Costumes) whose mission is to preserve, enhance and study a collection of 10,000 costumes from the theater, opera and ballet.

The fragility of the costumes makes it impossible to exhibit them over time, so the CNCS does not offer a permanent collection (except for a space dedicated to Rudolf Nureyev) but does offer permanent temporary exhibitions of high quality renewed every four to five months.

Full rate: 7 € / Reduced rate: 3 € / Free for children under 12 years old and CityPass holders

If you have a little more time, you can also go and discover the Museum of Youth Illustration dedicated, as its name suggests, to the illustration of children’s books from the 19th century to the present day. With more than 500 artworks, it is an ideal museum for a family audience.

Also to be seen, the Museum of the Visitation. A unique museum in France which presents many objects of the order of the Visitation from 100 monasteries around the world. The opportunity to discover the daily life of the monasteries of this order founded in 1610.

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The priory church of Saint-Pierre & Saint-Paul

The priory church in Souvigny is quite simply the largest religious monument in the department , and one of the most beautiful. It’s home to the funereal necropolis of the Bourbons

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Point of view.

There is an unbeatable 360 degree view from the balcony of the Jacquemart bell tower.

National Centre for Stage Costumes

An incredible collection of dresses and costumes at the National Centre for Stage Costumes! A museum that is unique in France and deserves to be explored.

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The Maison Les Palets d’or is the city’s symbol of artisan excellence. For more than a century, this legendary chocolatier has delighted young and old alike.

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Tourisme des Moulins is the manager of a permanent tourist information office located in the office of MRC Les Moulins.

The office is open year round and, in addition to providing information on Tourisme des Moulins member-businesses, it also offers official tourist guides of other regions of Quebec. The staff can guide you in planning vacations and visits, as well as booking hotels, restaurants, cultural outings and attractions through the  Bonjour Québec  central booking interface.

Other useful information is also obtainable at the Tourist Information Office, including weather forecasts, upcoming events, news, geographic access to other sites, arts and crafts, and more. We also stock types of documents such as atlases, maps and books on specific subjects (e.g., bird spotting, B&Bs and inns of Quebec, motorcycle guide, group outings, etc.).

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10 Surprising Facts About the 2024 Solar Eclipse

A total solar eclipse will sweep across North America on Monday, April 8, offering a spectacle for tens of millions of people who live in its path and others who will travel to see it.

A solar eclipse occurs during the new moon phase, when the moon passes between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow on Earth and totally or partially blocking our view of the sun. While an average of two solar eclipses happen every year, a particular spot on Earth is only in the path of totality every 375 years on average, Astronomy reported .

“Eclipses themselves aren't rare, it's just eclipses at your house are pretty rare,” John Gianforte, director of the University of New Hampshire Observatory, tells TIME. If you stay in your hometown, you may never spot one, but if you’re willing to travel, you can witness multiple. Gianforte has seen five eclipses and intends to travel to Texas this year, where the weather prospects are better.

One fun part of experiencing an eclipse can be watching the people around you. “They may yell, they scream, they cry, they hug each other, and that’s because it’s such an amazingly beautiful event,” Gianforte, who also serves as an extension associate professor of space science education, notes. “Everyone should see at least one in their life, because they’re just so spectacular. They are emotion-evoking natural events.”

Here are 10 surprising facts about the science behind the phenomenon, what makes 2024’s solar eclipse unique, and what to expect.

The total eclipse starts in the Pacific Ocean and ends in the Atlantic 

The darker, inner shadow the moon casts is called the umbra , in which you can see a rarer total eclipse. The outer, lighter second shadow is called the penumbra, under which you will see a partial eclipse visible in more locations.

The total eclipse starts at 12:39 p.m. Eastern Time, a bit more than 620 miles south of the Republic of Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean, according to Astronomy . The umbra remains in contact with Earth’s surface for three hours and 16 minutes until 3:55 p.m. when it ends in the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 340 miles southwest of Ireland.

The umbra enters the U.S. at the Mexican border just south of Eagle Pass, Texas, and leaves just north of Houlton, Maine, with one hour and eight minutes between entry and exit, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) tells TIME in an email.

Mexico will see the longest totality during the eclipse 

The longest totality will extend for four minutes and 28 seconds on a 350-mile-long swath near the centerline of the eclipse, including west of Torreón, Mexico, according to NASA.

In the U.S., some areas of Texas will catch nearly equally long total eclipses. For example, in Fredericksburg, totality will last four minutes and 23 seconds—and that gets slightly longer if you travel west, the agency tells TIME. Most places along the centerline will see totality lasting between three and a half minutes and four minutes.

More people currently live in the path of totality compared to the last eclipse 

An estimated 31.6 million people live in the path of totality for 2024’s solar eclipse, compared to 12 million during the last solar eclipse that crossed the U.S. in 2017, per NASA .

The path of totality is much wider than in 2017, and this year’s eclipse is also passing over more cities and densely populated areas than last time. 

A part of the sun which is typically hidden will reveal itself

Solar eclipses allow for a glimpse of the sun’s corona —the outermost atmosphere of the star that is normally not visible to humans because of the sun’s brightness.

The corona consists of wispy, white streamers of plasma—charged gas—that radiate from the sun. The corona is much hotter than the sun's surface —about 1 million degrees Celsius (1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit) compared to 5,500 degrees Celsius (9,940 degrees Fahrenheit).

The sun will be near its more dramatic solar maximum 

During the 2024 eclipse, the sun will be near “solar maximum.” This is the most active phase of a roughly 11-year solar cycle, which might lead to more prominent and evident sun activity, Gianforte tells TIME.  

“We're in a very active state of the sun, which makes eclipses more exciting, and [means there is] more to look forward to during the total phase of the eclipse,” he explains. 

People should look for an extended, active corona with more spikes and maybe some curls in it, keeping an eye out for prominences , pink explosions of plasma that leap off the sun’s surface and are pulled back by the sun’s magnetic field, and streamers coming off the sun.

Streamers “are a beautiful, beautiful shade of pink, and silhouetted against the black, new moon that's passing across the disk of the sun, it makes them stand out very well. So it's really just a beautiful sight to look up at the totally eclipsed sun,” Gianforte says.

Two planets—and maybe a comet—could also be spotted

Venus will be visible 15 degrees west-southwest of the sun 10 minutes before totality, according to Astronomy. Jupiter will also appear 30 degrees to the east-northeast of the sun during totality, or perhaps a few minutes before. Venus is expected to shine more than five times as bright as Jupiter. 

Another celestial object that may be visible is Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks , about six degrees to the right of Jupiter. Gianforte says the comet, with its distinctive circular cloud of gas and a long tail, has been “really putting on a great show in the sky” ahead of the eclipse.

The eclipse can cause a “360-degree sunset” 

A solar eclipse can cause a sunset-like glow in every direction—called a “360-degree sunset”—which you might notice during the 2024 eclipse, NASA said . The effect is caused by light from the sun in areas outside of the path of totality and only lasts as long as totality.

The temperature will drop 

When the sun is blocked out, the temperature drops noticeably. During the last total solar eclipse in the U.S. in 2017, the National Weather Service recorded that temperature dropped as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit. In Carbondale, Ill. for example, the temperature dropped from a peak of 90 degrees Fahrenheit just before totality to 84 degrees during totality.

Wildlife may act differently 

When the sky suddenly becomes black as though nighttime, confused “animals, dogs, cats, birds do act very differently ,” Gianforte says.

In the 2017 eclipse, scientists tracked that many flying creatures began returning to the ground or other perches up to 50 minutes before totality. Seeking shelter is a natural response to a storm or weather conditions that can prove deadly for small flying creatures, the report said. Then right before totality, a group of flying creatures changed their behavior again—suddenly taking flight before quickly settling back into their perches again.

There will be a long wait for the next total eclipse in the U.S.

The next total eclipse in the U.S. won’t happen until March 30, 2033, when totality will reportedly only cross parts of Alaska . The next eclipse in the 48 contiguous states is expected to occur on Aug. 12, 2044, with parts of Montana and North Dakota experiencing totality.

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Tourism, holidays & weekends guide in the Aisne

Moulins is a small village of the Hauts-de-France taking place in the heart of the department of Aisne . It is not far from Laon , in the canton of Guignicourt.

Set in the heart of nature, the commune of Moulins is ideal for a quiet and relaxed stay, near the most beautiful sights of this region of northern France. Full of charm, it also has an architectural and cultural heritage of great interest that you can discover by walking in the alleys of the borough.

In the surrounding countryside you can go hiking and other family walks to enjoy the local fauna and flora.

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In Moulins, you will be able to discover with pleasure the priory, religious edifice dating from the XIth century and registered with the Historic Monuments.

The village also has an interesting recent church, as well as cross paths to admire for a few walks in the countryside.

Touched by the ravages of the First World War like most of the surrounding communes, the village of Moulins presents a dozen war graves of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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Visit Pont-les-Moulins: highlights and tourist information

Pont-les-Moulins is situated in the Doubs department and Burgundy-Franche-Comté region.

Below you can see some of the places that we have visited and reviewed and can recommend when you are sightseeing close to Pont-les-Moulins in Burgundy-Franche-Comté.

Popular places to visit nearby include Besancon at 27 km and Ornans at 29 km.

Pont-les-Moulins, France: places to visit and attractions

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• Besancon: market Wednesday & Tuesday & Thursday all day & Sunday & Saturday & Friday (27km)
• Vesoul: market Thursday & Saturday (37km)
• Montbeliard: market Tuesday & Saturday (39km)
• Valentigney: market Tuesday (39km)
• Bethoncourt: market Friday (40km)
• Audincourt: market Saturday (40km)
• Sochaux: market Thursday (41km)
• Lure: market Tuesday (41km)
• Levier: market Wednesday (45km)
• Fesches-le-Chatel: market Friday (47km)

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What to do at Pont-les-Moulins? Some places with official tourist classifications and other places of interest to visit nearby that should provide inspiration if you are visiting Pont-les-Moulins.

Heritage sites

• Besancon citadelle (Vauban fortifications) (27km)
• Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans (55km)

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• Lods (32km)

National Monuments

• Astronomical clock of Besancon (27km)

Remarkable gardens

• Roseraie du Chatelet (60km)

Protected historical centre (fr: secteur sauvegardé)

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• Besancon (27km)

Sites of natural beauty

• Gouffre de Poudrey (20km)
• Gorges de Remonot (32km)
• Saut du Doubs (37km)
• Gorges du Doubs (37km)
• Défilé d'Entre-Roches (37km)

Towns of Art and history

• Salins-les-Bains (56km)

Villages in bloom 4* (fr: ville fleurie)

• Moffans-et-Vacheresse (36km)
• Mandeure (37km)
• Montbeliard (39km)
• Belfort (51km)

Zoo and/or wildlife park

• Citadelle de Besançon (27km)

Geography and distances

Pont-les-Moulins is in the eastern-center of France at 27 kilometres from Besancon, the department capital (general information: Pont-les-Moulins is 343 kilometres from Paris).

Geographical Information

Commune: Pont-les-Moulins

Canton: Baume-les-Dames

Arrondissement: Besançon

Department: Doubs

Region: Franche-Comte

New region: Burgundy-Franche-Comté

Postcode: 25110

Distance to Pont-les-Moulins

from Besancon (prefecture): 27 km

from Paris: 343 km

from Calais: 520 km

from Nice: 409 km

from Bordeaux: 602 km

from Strasbourg: 174 km

Getting here

Most visitors drive via Paris (from the north and west) or via Lyon (from the south), or fly into Geneva to the south For driving distances to Pont-les-Moulins from anywhere in France see driving distances and route planner .

We have 18 other places listed as being close (less than kilometres from ): Adam-les-Passavant , Baume-les-Dames , Bretigney-Notre-Dame , Cusance , Esnans , Fontenotte , Fourbanne , Grosbois , Guillon-les-Bains , Hyevre-Magny , Hyevre-Paroisse , Lomont-sur-Crete , Montivernage , Passavant , Saint-Juan , Silley-Blefond , Vaudrivillers and Villers-Saint-Martin .

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Planning to Combine Business and Leisure Travel? You’re Not Alone.

As employees increasingly add leisure time to their business trips, companies are trying to figure out where their duty of care obligations begin and end.

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On a Sunday in late January, Melinda Buchmann, who lives in Florida and supervises client relations for RevShoppe, a 30-person remote company advising organizations on sales techniques and strategies, arrived in Banff, Alberta, to help set up a four-day company meeting.

The last day of the event, her husband, Josh, a director of strategic partnerships for the delivery company DoorDash , who also works remotely, joined her. They spent two leisurely days hiking in Banff National Park and visiting Lake Louise.

“I take advantage, because I don’t know when I’m going to return,” Ms. Buchmann said of the decision to combine downtime with a business trip.

As postpandemic work life has changed, and arrangements now include full-time office attendance as well as hybrid and remote work, so, too, has business travel. The phenomenon known as bleisure, or blended business and leisure travel, was initially embraced largely by digital nomads . But such combined travel is now also popular with people outside that group . Allied Market Research, a subsidiary of Allied Analytics, based in Portland, Ore., estimated that the bleisure travel market was $315.3 billion in 2022 and would reach $731.4 billion by 2032.

As employees increasingly add leisure time to their business trips, companies are struggling to determine where their legal obligation to protect employees from harm — their so-called duty of care — begins and ends. And workers may think that because their trip started with business, they will get all the help they need if something goes wrong on the leisure end. Instead, they should generally consider the leisure part of a trip as a regular vacation where they cover all expenses and contingencies.

Companies are responsible for knowing where their employees are during a business trip, covering expenses if an accident or emergency occurs, securing new lodging if a hotel is damaged, even swapping out a broken down rental car. Still, it’s not entirely clear if that coverage ends completely after the conference or the last client meeting.

Companies recognize that threats are increasing, said Robert Cole, senior research analyst focusing on lodging and leisure travel at Phocuswright, a market research company. They are trying to figure out how to take care of a valuable company resource, the employee, without leaving themselves open to financial risk or potential litigation.

“Crafting a comprehensive policy that balances business objectives, employee well-being and legal considerations can be challenging,” Nikolaos Gkolfinopoulos, head of tourism at ICF, a consulting and technology services company in Reston, Va., wrote in an email.

Employees may be on their own without realizing it and may be surprised by out-of-pocket expenses if they require hospital care abroad or evacuation, said Suzanne Morrow, chief executive of InsureMyTrip , an online insurance travel comparison site in Warwick, R.I.

Ms. Morrow said medical coverage provided by a company “is generally only for the dates of the actual business trip abroad.” If travelers are extending the trip for personal travel, she added, “they would want to secure emergency medical coverage for that additional time abroad.”

Employers and employees are left to figure out when the business portion of the trip ends and the leisure segment begins, a significant detail if an employee has a medical emergency. “Where does the corporation liability end?” said Kathy Bedell, senior vice president at BCD Travel, a travel management company.

Companies have varying policies to deal with the new travel amalgam. The chief executive of RevShoppe, Patricia McLaren, based in Austin, Texas, said the company provided flexible travel options and allowed employees to work anywhere they choose.

Even so, there are constraints. The company requires all employees, including executives, to sign liability and insurance waivers when they are on a voluntary company-sponsored trip, such as an off-site meeting. Such waivers typically place responsibility on employees for their own well-being. And if they bring someone, they are responsible for that person’s expenses.

Employees are responsible for requesting the paid time off and notifying their managers of their whereabouts, although that part is not a requirement. Managers have to ensure adequate staffing, Ms. McLaren said.

Elsewhere, employees may not bother to mention the leisure portion of their trip. Eliot Lees, a vice president and managing director at ICF, said he had been on trips as a child with his parents when they combined business and leisure. His parents were academics, who would piggyback vacations onto conferences.

Now he does the same. “I don’t think I ever asked for approval,” he said. (ICF has no formal business-leisure travel policy. It’s allowed as part of personal time off.) After a conference in the Netherlands last year, he spent four days hiking in the northern part of the country.

“I go anywhere, and take more risks than I should,” he said. He said he didn’t carry personal travel or accident insurance.

Any nonchalance may quickly evaporate if a threat emerges. Security experts say even low-risk locations can become high-risk for a few days or weeks of the year.

“Companies are concerned about losing visibility into a traveler’s whereabouts if they booked flights and hotels outside their corporate travel management company,” Benjamin Thorne, senior intelligence manager in London for Crisis24, a subsidiary of GardaWorld, wrote in an email. “The company may think the traveler is in one city when, in reality, they could have booked a holiday package to another nearby city. This lack of visibility by the company makes it difficult to support travelers when a disaster occurs.”

He also raised the possibility that “a traveler with bleisure travel reservations and expectations may find their work trip canceled due to changes in the risk environment or company policy, disrupting their leisure plans.”

Will a company step in off hours if there’s a problem? “That depends on how you are booked,” Mr. Cole, the senior research analyst at Phocuswright, said. A rule of thumb is the further you get from corporate control, the greater the gray area gets.

Half of GoldSpring Consulting’s clients take the responsibility for the entire trip, said Will Tate, a partner at the consultancy based in Cross Roads, Texas, and a certified public accountant. They don’t want the reputational risk. The other half say: “The business trip ended Friday. That’s when we end our duty of care.”

Some companies are trying to define and narrow the gray area. “If you are clearly on personal time, there is no legal requirement for your employer to provide for you,” said Nicole Page, a lawyer whose practice includes employment law at Reavis Page Jump in New York.

Uber provides employees with advisories before a trip, travel assessments, safety tips while traveling and emergency travel assistance, including medical aid, airport travel support, urgent and emergency assistance, and lost or stolen personal property insurance whether they are on business or pleasure travel or a combination.

And at DoorDash, Chris Cherry, head of global safety and security, wrote in an email that “while personal travel is not something we track, we have received requests to extend our travel support capabilities to personal travel.” Mr. Cherry said in those cases, the company has manually added employee leisure itineraries to its travel risk management system and “provided the same level of overwatch that we do for regular business travel.”

The Buchmanns plan to travel this month to Barcelona, Spain, for the McDonald’s Worldwide Convention. DoorDash will have a booth, and Mr. Buchmann will work on the exhibit floor and also entertain clients.

Ms. Buchmann will accompany him. She plans to go sightseeing in the morning, and work in the afternoons and evenings Barcelona time. She will also take three days of paid time off and has shared her plans with Ms. McLaren, the RevShoppe chief executive.

They will stay a day after the conference and plan to visit the Dalí Theater and Museum in Figueres. “I’m sure there will be no shortage of tapas and window shopping along way,” Mr. Buchmann said. He expects to be back at work the next Monday.

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