Consolidating your travel through the right travel management company is one of the great changes you can make to save time and money and make work life easier!
Take your travel from mess to finesse and reap the rewards
Let's face it, corporate travel isn’t always smooth sailing. But there are ways to reduce the stress of managing business travel. It starts with consolidating your business travel with a single travel provider that specialises in managing travel for organisations just like yours.
A travel management company (TMC) takes the guesswork out of booking flights, hotels, and transportation. They’ll help you to develop a travel program that suits your business’s needs and provides support for everything from searching and booking travel, payment and expense management, reporting as well as traveller safety and wellbeing.
A good TMC that provides you with your own travel consultant to manage all your travel enquiries is like an extension of your business. And by consolidating with a TMC your business will gain full control and better visibility of your travel for maximum savings, value and safety!
But what does all this actually mean? Let’s break it down.
More visibility and control
Being able to report on the total volume of your travel transactions and bookings at any time of the day, will give you full visibility into your travel spend. Full visibility of your program is the foundation to monitor your travel activity, make process or policy changes, spot opportunities for savings and to keep an eye on where your travellers are for safety and support. Gaining better visibility and control of your travel spend and your travellers are critical drivers of creating better business travel.
Better service, more support
When you centralise or consolidate your business travel through a single travel provider you have one point of contact for all things travel.
At Corporate Traveller, we put a huge focus on providing top-notch service by giving you your own travel consultant. This means you’ll always have someone to call when things get rough, complex or happen at an inconvenient time (hello weekends!). You’ll also have access to customer success managers for strategic program support and 24/7 365 day in-house emergency support. No matter what the situation, you’ve got a real-life human being on the end of the phone who answers in just three rings.
Increased value and savings
This is a big one. When you consolidate your travel with the likes of Corporate Traveller, you can expect savings and value to be delivered in different ways including:
- From our global supplier network from being part for the Flight Centre Travel Group
- Point of sale discounts from corporate negotiated rates and fares
- Exclusive deals, offers and programs such as SmartSTAY and SmartDRIVE
- Savings from optimising your program
- Savings gained from having total visibility of your spend and activity through reporting.
With our powerful technology at your fingertips, you’ll be able to keep an eye on your bookings and travel activity, pull the reports you need to keep on top of your financials and set policy parameters around bookings to make sure you’re keeping a healthy bottom line.
Time savings
When you put your corporate travel in the hands of the experts, you’ll discover there’s time savings that can be achieved on every booking and on all your travel processes – literally! Partner with Corporate Traveller and you’ll be saving time on every booking thanks to our AI powered online booking tool - Savi, which is 33% faster than our competitors. Add to this time savings on your expense management and reporting and reconciliation processes, as well as being able to hand over all the time-consuming jobs like dealing with air and hotel suppliers to your travel consultant ... and you’re ahead of time already.
It’s the combination of Corporate Traveller’s efficient technology and responsive service from our people that will give your team back hours in their day. Because your people don’t need to spend as much time managing travel, they have more time to focus on their core business.
Increased employee productivity is a huge gain for any business!
Enhanced traveller safety
Safety is top-of-mind for many businesses, as it should be. Being able to track where our travellers are at any given time is critical in the friction-filled world we now live in. With help from our reporting and risk management tools like our mobile app Sam, your travellers will be informed and supported wherever they’re travelling.
There’s so much more to travel program consolidation than what’s been covered in this article! For the full low-down on consolidation and how it can benefit your business specifically, contact our team today.
Ready to make every trip count?
Corporate Traveller has a proven track record of helping SMEs make it count. Your travel matters and we’re committed to your success. We know that it starts with consolidating your program so that you have everything in one place. Let’s get going.