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Atlanta – ExxonMobil’s internal “Do The Math” campaign aims to optimize four aspects of traveler booking behavior: online booking adoption, lowest logical fare use, advance ticket purchasing and preferred hotel utilization. The company’s communications strategy, featuring extensive use of banner ads, was one of three engagement case studies presented here during a panel discussion at…
Four in five business travelers “never” or “rarely” choose out-of-policy options, according to an April BCD Travel poll of 1,201 business travelers worldwide. Seventeen percent indicated they sometimes chose out-of-policy options, 3 percent said they “often” did and 1 percent picked “always.” An unrelated May-June survey by Deloitte of 1,070 U.S. corporate travelers whose companies…
Eighty percent of U.S.-based executives and managers believe their companies could use their travel budgets more wisely to achieve strategic goals. On average, they said, 20 percent of company trips were “low-value” and one-third could be replaced by virtual meetings. Among 410 respondents to an April survey by tClara, 174 executives ranked achieving successful business…
Class of service policies for air travel are among the most common elements of corporate travel programs. Products of a tug of war between spend management and employee wellbeing, they’re sometimes perceived as reflecting a company’s generosity and attention to human assets. There are multiple ways to construct such a policy. Flight duration is a…
Travel management is always all about data, but what does it say? Benchmarks can provide many answers, putting a program’s effectiveness into context, but obtaining good ones and using them effectively may be harder than it seems. The Company Dime asked more than a dozen travel managers and industry consultants to discuss the best practices….
Having seen up close the dangers of algorithmic bias in artificial intelligence, CWT’s Matthew Newton has some suggestions for risk mitigation. Artificial intelligence is being deployed at scale in business travel management, with algorithms changing the game for service consistency, efficiency and cost-effectiveness. But this watershed moment threatens to unleash a monster. Algorithmic bias in…
Regardless of the allure, direct bookings with suppliers are out of bounds for most employee groups at two companies represented on a March 6 webinar hosted by Cerebri AI. Both firms mandate that bookings go through their designated travel management companies via counselors or the SAP Concur Travel booking tool. According to their travel managers,…
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