Top 5 tactics for beating travel cost blowouts

A business travel program should be treated like any other controllable expense.  It should be set up for growth, benchmarked and analysed to ensure you're getting the best value for your dollar.

If that sounds like a lot of work to fit into your schedule, you're right.  That's why partnering with a professional Travel Manager is a great solution for bypassing the time investment.

There's a ton of tips an expert can give you to reduce costs and eliminate the hassles while you're travelling but for starters, take a look at our Top 5 below:

1. MODERNISE YOUR PROGRAM

The first step is to get a picture of how you source, book and reconcile your business trips.  We'll sit with you and your people and talk through your process and where some expert support can cut your time spent on admin.

2. SWITCH TO A SINGLE CHANNEL

Self managing your company's travel inevitably means you're working across multiple fronts for each step of the travel cycle.  Our aim is to condense all those steps and stakeholders into a single line that leads directly to your Travel Manager.

3. TAKE A BEST PRACTICE APPROACH TO BOOKING

Once you've given us a feel for your ideal business travel program, we'll set about creating it.  The key aspect of a Corporate Traveller partnership is that you select how you want to engage with us.  If you and your travellers want to book online, we can implement our online booking tool.  Prefer to do it over the phone?  No sweat, your Travel Manager will be at the ready.

4. INCREASE YOUR BOOKING ACCURACY

Niggling costs like booking changes can fast become huge contributors to cost blowouts.

We've got a two pronged approach to ensuring your bookings are right every time.

1. Confirmation email prior to ticketing - Your Travel Manager can secure your bookings prior to payment and will send you an email confirmation before the booking is locked in.  This gives you an extra opportunity to double check the details and make any flight changes for free before ticketing.
2. Your Corporate Traveller service level agreement - Corporate Traveller's service level agreement  states that every itinerary will be completed with 100% accuracy.  Our experts are fully aware of their commitment to you and are actively rewarded for customer satisfaction.

5. TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 24/7 SUPPORT

Our 24/7 support team ensures you won't be left in the lurch if you run into problem outside regular office hours.  No matter where you or your travellers are in the world, or what time it is, they'll have Brisbane based expert on the other end of the phone who can keep their itinerary on track.