Features to look for when choosing a travel management company
- Extensive travel inventories: It’s essential that the travel management company you choose gives you access to comprehensive inventories of transportation and accommodation, as well as enabling you to compare prices, dates, and offers that best suit your travel needs.
- Built-in approval workflows: Embedding your travel approval workflows and travel policy into your travel management company’s platform helps you increase policy compliance rates and eliminates the need to manage travel and expenses via long email threads.
- Centralized invoice collection: Some travel management companies don’t act as a single vendor meaning that you’ll still need to collect and collate invoices from various companies. Travel management companies that offer a system that consolidates all of your monthly invoices into one single vendor invoice can save you a lot of time and hassle.
- Flexible booking options: Flexible booking options enable businesses to accommodate any last-minute changes to trip dates or cancellations after booking for free or at a reasonable cost.
- 24/7 Customer support: Unexpected events are inevitable in business travel, and you need to know that your travel management company will be there to help you should things go wrong. A prompt, easy-to-access customer support function is essential to help your travellers manage any issues that arise.
- Reporting capabilities: The ability to access travel data that is broken down by individual business travellers, mode of transportation, booking type, and cancellations, helps you carry out significant spend optimization activities.
1. TravelPerk
- Flexible bookings with FlexiPerk means flexible travel bookings for you and your employees. Book direct travel or stopover flights at any rate whenever you want and cancel when you need to. Cancel up to two hours before travel, and receive a minimum of an 80% refund in TravelPerk credit to use towards future bookings.
- Featuring world-class risk management solutions, TravelCare helps you make informed decisions when booking travel, alerting you to restrictions or guidelines set forth by your employee’s destination country.
- 24/7 corporate travel assistance is also available for employees who need real-time support from real humans. Our team’s target 15-second response time takes the stress out of travel so your employees can get back to their trip.
- Automated travel policies and workflows to suit your business needs, and give employees the freedom to book travel without having to micromanage.
- 3rd party software integrations make it easy to onboard your existing software while enhancing how you manage business travel for your company and its employees.
- Real-time travel management reporting and data monitoring, lets you make informed travel decisions and configure reports to suit your data tracking needs.
- TravelPerk’s centralized invoicing system leads to a more streamlined approach when collecting receipts and paperwork from employees on the road.
- Offset your business travel carbon footprint with GreenPerk, while investing your funds into certified projects..
- TravelPerks’ events management offerings provide you and your team a complete solution for all your event planning needs.
2. Groupe Voyages VP
- Report generating capabilities for travel managers.
- Break-down analyses of hotels by city, flight activities, and frequent travelers.
- Corporate event organization and management services.
- Extraordinary travel offerings, featuring a wide array of destinations and trip themes.
- Quality control standard and monitoring company travel policy compliance.
3. Voyages International Corporate Travel
- Company assistance setting up corporate travel programs.
- Event management services.
- Data reporting services.
- Travel Analysis.
- Reconciliation and cost tracking.
4. Voyage Régence
- Analysis of travel budgets.
- Travel management recommendations.
- 24/7 emergency service.
- Electronic ticketing.
- Access to bookings via Galileo Travel Software.