Pondering Online Travel Management Solutions...
Managing travel costs is an important factor for any business and is a paramount consideration for any organisation’s key decision-makers.
One solution being increasingly embraced in the corporate sector is an online Travel Management Solution. Enhancements of an increasingly “user friendly” kind are enabling companies to manage all aspects of their business travel requirements with ease all the while driving down costs.
So how do you choose a Travel Management System that best suits your business?
Whether your company already uses an existing Travel Management System or is researching the viability of the concept, the following points should be carefully considered when assessing functionality:
Seamless integration with airlines schedules
An important feature for an online travel solution is to have seamless integration to the airline reservation systems, providing companies with airlines schedules, last seat availability, and online booking capabilities.
Flexibility
Flexibility is key, as no two travellers or company travel policies are alike. The system needs to provide flexibility and be have the ability to be customised to suit each individual company’s corporate travel requirements.
It needs to be intuitive
An online Travel Management Solution needs to be simple and intuitive to allow busy users to go online, search, locate and book without fuss and in the most time efficient way. Ideally a system should facilitate and transact these requirements in as little as 1 minute.
Accurate and detailed reporting
An online booking solution should accurately analyse individual traveller’s activities and supply detailed reporting to managers. Monthly, weekly or daily information should be available to managers in real time.
Individual travel profiles
With access to individual travel profiles, travellers should be able to manage their own information. The individual traveller should have access via the online Travel Management Solution to update information on their individual traveler profile.
Remember, there are a number of great online travel management solutions out there in the marketplace. It is important that you source and implement the one that suits your business.
XpressRes, powered by McGann Corporate Travel, has been developed as a state of the art online travel management solution that ticks all the boxes: speed, efficiency, compliance and cost savings.
XpressRes is here and ready to start saving you time and money.
