Insights

Travel has always been a risky business. Especially if you have ever had to navigate international incidents, industrial action or adverse weather. Not surprising then that risk management and duty of care is so important.

Many travel managers have used lockdown to review their travel programs processes and partners, in hopes to have a stronger, more efficient, travel program in place when things begin to resume. Check out these 5 considerations when it comes to your travel management provider.

Today’s business travel programmes deliver huge amounts of data – everything from details of hotel bookings and flights to individual passenger expenses and preferences for food, seats and rooms.

There is no point having copious amounts of data if you can’t check it continuously and whenever the need arises.

The advantage of having the highest quality clean data is that you have instant access to quick actionable elements of your programme to better shape your travel spend.

Business travel programme data is not only about your hotel bookings, flight tickets and transfer journeys.

We know that a web interface will not always be the way a client wants to access their data. Not all of our customers in the future will want to log into a reporting platform to see their data.

The idea behind NDC is that everyone involved in the business of distributing content – such as airline seats and fares – are all talking the same (technical) language and using the same syntax to exchange messages on shopping and booking components of travel...