[monoflo]

Bottom line
Depends on the autonomy of the trip.

Conferences -tradeshows-etc never worked for us.
but my normal trips which entailed sales calls --technical but still calls offered nice opportunities for her to explore new places. Often she'd do some day tours and we'd hit some nice places she'd discovered in the evening.

Been retired for awhile so things might be different now --but we had a heck of a time when she tagged along.