The bloom is definitely back on the business-travel rose. Style, and especially luxury, are back on the business-travel agenda. After years of cutting corners and eliminating perks, companies are allowing their traveling executives to live a little better on the road. And that is leading hotels, international airlines and even the troubled U.S. carriers to up the luxury quotient. "It's nice to know that my company is allowing me to stay at hotels where I can get a cup of coffee in an actual cup served to me by a waiter who comes to my table," says Valerie Silando, a 200,000-mile-a-year traveler who spends about 100 days a year on the road. "I was really getting tired of waking up in the morning and realizing my breakfast was a cardboard-tasting muf- fin and a cardboard cup of coffee from a picked-over buffet."
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