Money (and stress)-saving reasons to offload your travel admin
Despite what the label suggests, a managed travel program can still give your colleagues a lot of choice and freedom. If anything, it frees them up like never before by pushing all that business travel admin onto a pro. And managed travel isn’t just about saving money, it’s also about saving time and stress.
Remember to always think of travel as part of your wider business goals and consider the objective of the trip.
Here are five ways managed travel saves money that may not have immediately come to mind.
Time to make own bookings vs a TMC
We’ve mentioned this before but it’s worth repeating. Booking randomly on the internet just isn’t the most cost-effective way to travel, especially when you factor in people’s time and the wider company picture.
In a simple booking, you will need flights, accommodation, and car hire. Booking this yourself means researching sites, then creating a minimum of three individual bookings. How much time is your team wasting on all those searches, reading of booking conditions, cost, and convenience considerations when they could be focused on the stuff that matters? A lot. And let's not even start talking about if you needed to make a change to your booking if you are booking direct! Having Corporate Traveller in your pocket means all those things can become one email or a click on the online booking tool which keeps all factors of your trip in one place. Let an expert give you time back to do everything else on your list today!
Avoid those hidden payment gaps
Stop getting hit by credit card fees. Instead, pay on account and avoid those pesky extra charges. It also means fewer invoices and less receipts to check when it comes to expenses. And travellers will love it too – no more spending their own money to get back in a few months’ time and less expenses to run through when they’re back in the office.
Someone to pick up the phone at any hour
It’s happened time and time again. Bosses and travel arrangers getting a call from a distressed traveller stuck somewhere on a Saturday evening. What better way to show you care than to ensure they’ve got business travel experts a call or click away to help them, even at 7pm on a Saturday or 1am on Monday morning. It’ll save you money on the weekend work and additional travel costs too, since your TMC will also ensure the best travel options.
Make a crisis that bit more controllable
How can you even start to measure the stress that travel causes your team, especially if they’ve been travelling through COVID? It’s a number you don’t even have to measure if you’ve got a managed travel program with a TMC, and they’ll ensure the financial cost doesn’t go OTT too.