Four amazing tech tools to improve your business travel

As those who are responsible for booking business travel would know, technology plays a massive part in the way you do your job.

Online booking portals, mobile boarding passes or notification apps for flight changes certainly make your life a lot easier. But they’re only part of the solution.

Did you know there are plenty more technology solutions available for your business that you may not have even thought about? Not just tools for booking, either – but programs to help you track expenses, get notified of emergencies, and even locate each employee when they’re on the move.

If you haven’t investigated some of these systems, now might be the right time. And these tools aren’t just for travellers – there are solutions to help your business, and even yourself, when it comes to streamlining the booking process.

1. Expense systems

You may already have an expense management system within your business, but there are dedicated travel systems that are built specifically to integrate with those. Not only can travellers use them to push receipts and data through, but many can automatically pull through information, such as credit card charges.

This is great for anyone booking travel too, as you don’t have to worry about handling multiple receipts or invoices. It all gets put through the system and right to your finance team – no double handling.

2. Data dashboards

If you’re a travel booker then you know all too well how stressful it can be dealing with multiple pieces of information at once. You may have more than 10 employees on separate trips, with different amounts of paperwork for each one all swirling around your inbox.

Some business travel providers offer online portals that let you see exactly where every traveller is at once. You can instantly call up their itineraries, travel and accommodation information, their emergency details and more, making it easy to pull up the full travel history for a single employee at any time.

And because it’s all cloud-based too you don’t need to worry about where to access it, it’s always online and available for you, or anyone else in the business who needs it.

3. Mobile apps

Speaking of business travel providers, some of their dashboards come with apps that provide a better overall mobile admin experience for travellers and travel bookers than others. YOUR.CT, for instance, doesn’t just hold boarding passes, but can put all the information together for a single trip including accommodation, mobile gate change notifications, traveller’s spend data and information about your travel policy – even location information, like weather.

With a seamless mobile check in place, employees don’t have to keep switching betweens apps on the same trip, meaning less stress – and a lot more productivity.

4. Booking platforms

One of the other benefits you get with a business travel provider is a booking portal, which is a lot different than just booking through a third-party website.

These portals show you the best possible deals that you can’t get with anyone else, and they’re curated for your business based on your policy needs. Which means that travellers can book a trip for themselves without any fear about how far they’ll be staying from meetings, or whether they’re costing the business too much money.

The best part is, these portals help you organise a full trip a lot faster than third-party websites, too.

Is your business missing any of these?

If so, it might be time to speak with a dedicated business travel provider about introducing some new tech into your travel process.

Here at Corporate Traveller, we have a huge range of tech to make your life easier – including our dedicated travel booking portal, CT:Go. It’s all online and easy to use, so anyone in the business can book travel themselves.

Interested in supercharging your business travel? Speak with Corporate Traveller today – and let’s see where we can go together.