With the increasing need for corporate travel, various travel management companies have emerged over the years to fill the gap in the market for agencies specializing in it. When a company’s size goes beyond 200 employees, it becomes really hard for a corporate to keep track of travel expenses and Read more…
Travel has become an indispensable part of the process of expansion and globalization of businesses. Employees travel overseas to meet new clients, attend conferences & trade shows, perform staff training, conduct market research, engage in team building, and more. However, though overlooked, accommodations and comfort are essential to maintaining employee Read more…
Traveling is no less than a necessity nowadays. But there are a lot of issues associated while traveling in an airplane, whether big issues like loss of baggage or simpler ones like airplane ears. Though it sounds simpler, it sometimes can be very irritating to roam around with half-blocked ears. Read more…
Open jaw bookings are a fairly new term in airline travel. Although the process behind it has existed for much longer. It may sound absurd or complicated at first, but it is fairly simple to grasp when explained properly. And it does come very handy when planning one’s next business Read more…
Businesses have busy and ever-changing plans. Business travel plans sometimes fall through due to shifts in scheduled meetings, changes in business strategy, or change in staff. These are some of the many reasons to cancel a business trip. Sometimes, it’s not even the company’s fault. The airline may cancel or Read more…
Airlines and flight booking used to be simple. Choosing the airline, the travel date, the seat class, making the payment, and getting your ticket. However with time, more data and its inferences being available to airlines, and increasing margins always being a goal, things have become more complicated. There are Read more…
A corporate travel agent is a suitable job for someone passionate about traveling while solving corporate travel problems. A corporate travel agent is responsible for creating and managing travel itineraries, handling bookings for all travel transportation and accommodations, creating and maintaining a budget for the entire trip, and following all Read more…
In this era, where everything is about and around technology, the travel industry has found a way to leverage technology in the best way possible. Large travel management companies (TMCs) generally use a global distribution system (GDS) that contains the inventory of various travel products with their real-time price and Read more…
When planning to send an employee on a business-oriented trip or to an event for company exposure, one overlooked aspect of travel planning is business travel meal expenses. Yes, it is quite easy to forget to plan for a traveling employee’s meal allowances amongst all the other tasks like hotel Read more…
Among an organization’s most prominent controllable costs, business travel expense is the second largest after salaries. It impacts the organization’s bottom-line irrespective of the company’s size. While ‘travel and expense’ are unavoidable because of their relevance to revenue generation, each organization must create a strategy-driven T&E policy for optimum fund Read more…
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