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.
[UPDATE, May 9, 2017: OnyxCenterSource acquired fellow hotel commission recovery specialist eCommission Solutions. Onyx CEO Mark Dubrow said the deal expands his company’s client base and provides pre-existing ECS clients “an expanded hotel network and additional support services around the world.” Dubrow added that Onyx is determining how the ECS “big data platform” may help…
After decades of hesitation, the business world has embraced climate protection. More companies than ever are taking stock of the environmental impact of their employee travel and working to reduce it. Videoconferencing and more efficient ground transportation are among the more common means. Several organizations last month announced commitments in conjunction with the COP21 United…
[UPDATE, March 7, 2018: We published new information about this topic here.] About a decade ago the largest travel management companies created consulting units to help organizations with supplier sourcing and other projects. They targeted both existing and non-clients of their TMC services. Few smaller TMCs have followed but now Travel Leaders Corporate is giving it a go. The…
Leesburg, Va. — It’s not uncommon to find travel managers who believe in Concur’s vision for TripLink but question whether it’s ready. Aggressive marketing has inflated expectations. Concur has acknowledged that building the service takes a long time. Maybe the mantra now should be “slow and steady” as the company ticks off delivery of key functions. A couple of…
On our third podcast episode, Jay Campbell interviews Pam Massey about the new and old challenges of managing travel in a non-governmental organization, and how leadership change is prompting new approaches. Pam shared tips on communication and being flexible on policy for the sake of service quality, as well as her new thinking on travel management company RFPs. Later…
It’s bad enough that hotel sourcing is so frustrating. What makes it worse is when some of the effort is wasted. Understanding why a corporate rate program isn’t as effective as it could be and figuring out what to do about it isn’t seasonal. It’s never-ending. “We actually buy travel twice,” said Susan Savy, a…
Google’s travel program has been closely watched for the better part of a decade. It helped vault “open booking” into industry vernacular. Capturing data when travelers book what and how they want — within some price guidelines — may be an attractive idea for some program managers at other organizations. But all these years later,…
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