Managed corporate travel produces huge amounts of data. Organizations need it to watch expenses, monitor programs, track travelers and comply with various taxation and legal requirements. They use business intelligence tools and expense management to gather and analyze.
Dashboards and other methods of visualizing data have gained popularity in travel management. With the reams of data that a travel program generates, any way to better sort through and make sense of it is welcome. PredictX North America EVP and managing director Tom Tulloch thinks data visualization has a place in corporate travel, but…
Corporate travel veteran Steve Reynolds is a hotel rate wonk, and you’re the beneficiary. Read on as the Tripbam founder dissects the arguments surrounding dynamic versus fixed rates, just as many corporate programs are in the thick of securing preferred pricing for next year. Our industry has been discussing the potential for years: Why not…
[UPDATE, Oct., 2020: Corporate Travel Management acquired Tramada .”] Travel agency automation firm Tramada Systems has begun looking to ARC-accredited corporate travel departments for its next opportunities in North America. Partnering with the world’s leading expense and corporate booking company, SAP Concur, should help. Australia-based Tramada offers back office and related tools to travel management companies…
There are many lessons to learn by looking through travel program data. The more you dig, the more insights you’ll pick up. Travel Leaders Corporate president Gabe Rizzi lays out some of the genres you should read up on and describes how each can help optimize travel program management. Corporate travel managers today have a…
The three major U.S. network airlines are big on providing account-specific information. This can relate to spending, contract performance, ancillary services and operational metrics. Delta Air Lines in 2014 and United Airlines last year activated self-service reporting portals. Now comes American’s. American Airlines in June unveiled a portal for travel agencies. In the fall it will test…
PredictX is demonstrating a chat and voice assistant designed to save corporate managers time seeking answers and sending messages about booked travel. The data analytics firm is talking to potential first adopters for the system, which can use voice or text apps like Facebook Messenger, SMS or Slack. In a briefing, executives showed examples of…
Tripbam announced benchmarking and hotel performance assessment tools enabling clients to determine if they’re getting appropriate discounts, why negotiated rates aren’t being used and where they can improve their programs. The initiative aims to address problems that give travel buyers fits and have attracted other solutions, as well. In the works for well over a year,…
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