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…
Cost control remains corporate travel management’s cornerstone, but shifts in the relationships between employers and their people (and the planet) brought updated metrics to the fore. Newer key performance indicators on satisfaction and sustainability increasingly accompany negotiated savings in the assessment toolkit. Measuring program compliance continues to underpin multiple priorities. According to buyers and consultants,…
BCD Travel’s Advito created a hotel consulting service for small and medium-sized enterprises. Priced at $6,000 for a package of products and tools, it’s designed to address a middle ground between existing solutions in the industry. “Most of the time, people are paying maybe a little less than that just for a sourcing platform or…
Sustainability regulations impacting corporate travel management are expanding apace even as some such public policy initiatives face new legal and political challenges. Australian lawmakers last month introduced draft regulations that would begin phasing in mandated climate-related corporate disclosures as soon as July 1. These include business travel and employee commuting activity, part of the Scope…
New analysis suggests companies can grow profitably even if business travel fails to reach half its pre-pandemic peak. At the same time, many of the most prominent corporate flyers are failing to set or meet travel emissions reduction goals. Aiming to hold these companies accountable, Transport & Environment tracks the environmental impact of their business…
Meta has some aggressive sustainability goals. Rather than treating travel as an area to cut in the name of emissions reduction, the company views it as a change agent. It’s part of a strategic approach in which business travel data is a critical financial input that can, along with employee engagement, help Meta reach its…
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