

How to fly safe and arrive well during COVID-19
Traveling during the COVID-19 pandemic can be unsettling. Find out the precautions you can take to minimize your risk of becoming unwell.

How to prepare for Real ID
Effective October 1, 2020, if you are 18 years or older, live in the United States and plan to use your driver’s license or state ID to travel by air, you will need a REAL ID to pass airport security checkpoints and/or be permitted on the airplane.

5 Clear signs that you need to go to RFP
Are you frustrated with the current state of your travel program? Is your CFO pushing for more tangible savings while your travelers complain about business travel demands? It may be time to review your choice of Travel Management Company (TMC).

Write a killer travel RFP in just 10 questions
A lengthy RFP isn’t necessarily the mark of a successful RFP. In some cases, short and simple is best, defining the important requirements of your business. The key is to focus on question quality, not quantity and ask questions which prompt creative answers.

6 Ways to mess up your RFP
Some tenders for office items such as printers or stationery can be conducted using a fairly standard template, slightly updated from the previous version to suit your current needs. Unfortunately, this is not the case for a travel tender.

What to know before you negotiate
To achieve significant savings in your travel program, negotiating competitive airline and hotel accommodation contracts with suppliers is key. It’s important to approach these strategic negotiations armed with all the information you need to achieve a tactical outcome.

Surviving Business Travel During Peak Holiday Season
At the end of the year airports and hotels are jam packed with individuals and families traveling for the busy holiday season—for the corporate travelers, it's business as usual. FCM has put together a range of simple strategies to help survive the frenzy.

What do business travelers really value?
When it comes to evaluating your Travel Management Company's services and policy based on cost savings or on value, it is important to understand the difference of each.

FCM’s Enhanced NDC-enabled Solutions
At FCM, we believe NDC will encourage innovation by creating greater flexibility and quicker speed to market. Through the establishment of a Global Integration Program we are working to ensure seamless delivery of NDC across our corporate and leisure businesses.

Consumerizing Business Travel
Before the internet came along, there were clear divisions between how companies sold to us as private consumers, and as businesspeople. The ways we bought their products and services were different too.

Artificial Intelligence in Business Travel
In a relatively short period of time Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become embedded in the fabric of society. AI already seems to power everything from how we read e-mails to how we shop.

NDC, Business Travel and Omni Channel Travel Platforms
Artificial Intelligence (AI), mobile, omni channel travel platform, travel consumerism and NDC. Each can stake a claim to dramatically affecting the way in which business travel products are distributed and consumed. But how near are we to achieving that utopian future?