Business travel is all about productivity — whether that relates to its fundamental use for more efficient collaboration, guarding against bureaucracy to ensure seamless collaboration, or generally purchasing the right services at the right prices so trip missions deliver the most value. It also means helping employees avoid getting bogged down in post-trip red tape. The coverage below digs into issues, processes, tools and tricks.
As with areas like expense, meetings, payment and risk, mobile phones and plans don’t fall within the typical travel manager’s bailiwick. Building on its language and Wi-Fi dialing capabilities, TripLingo is looking to challenge that norm. Its latest service helps companies that do not have a centralized mobile phone program to manage excess charges. From one country or region…
[UPDATE, Oct. 25, 2017: The European Union affirmed the Privacy Shield framework following its first annual review. It announced some recommendations about how companies should communicate participation, and ways the U.S. Department of Commerce can ensure the agreement’s integrity. Recent adopters of the framework in corporate travel include ATPI, Colpitts, Radius and Travel Incorporated.] A…
[UPDATE, July 20, 2017: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security no longer bans large electronic devices in airplane passenger cabins for flights coming in from overseas. The last of the 10 airports affected by the restrictions had the ban removed this week.] [UPDATE, April 19, 2017: Emirates cited revised U.S. government policies for its decision…
Concur still isn’t saying much about its plans for Hipmunk, but a client conference this month featured a roadmap for its natural language processing capabilities. According to a March 15 tweet by Concur VP of business development R.J. Filipski, Hipmunk showed attendees it was enabling “chatbot-based business travel booking via Concur and your preferred TMC.” Meanwhile,…
Did today’s blizzard in the Northeast wreck your travel plans? There are a number of developing services that can help corporate travelers avoid such problems. A first step may be knowing the likelihood that a flight could be disrupted before booking it. Flightsayer, a service from Resilient Ops, presents a score for each flight where 1…
Those who travel for business view warnings about the mental and physical hazards either as an “identity threat” or a “more concerning reality check.” This was a finding from an academic study published last week on the reaction to an earlier study exploring the “darker side of hypermobility.” The first study argued that the perceived…
[UPDATE, March 7, 2018: We published new information about this topic here.] Two-thirds of Travel and Transport’s client bookings go through self-booking tools. Why, then, did the travel management company spend time and money building out technology at the travel agent point of sale? It’s because the rest often are the most important or tricky…
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