"I spend a nice and friendly dinner yesterday with eight international women in a cosy restaurant in Paris 6eme. It is amazing, how lovely you can spend an evening with the persons you just met for the first time." writes a women nicknamed eya-ee.

These comments are not part of a restaurant review, nor do they refer to a speed dating event with eight women, they are the product of a trend reported by trendwatching.com taking hold of the business travelers scene the past year: women's networking.
Take the Global Dinner Network, a network founded by German businesswoman Tanja Lindmeier. One day she was sitting alone in her hotel room while on a business trip to a foreign city and thought 'What can I do to make my time here more enjoyable? Surely I'm not the only woman having room service alone? I want to go for a run but I don't know which areas are safe here.'

The result was an international network allowing business women to meet up wherever in the world for a run, for dinner, to share travel tips or to network for business.

Convinced that staying in your room while travelling for business is no good? There are other examples too: networking site Ladiesaway, for example, founded by Ray Lehky, helps to match up travelling businesswomen who are staying in the same hotel or neighbourhood.