Tag Archives: Compliance

Corporate Buyers: Consumerization Is Hyped, But Should Not Be Ignored

Posted on September 26, 2012 | Leave a comment

Corporate travel buyers speaking at The Beat Live here this month described a more nuanced view of consumerization than the false policy-versus-freedom choice portrayed by some headlines. While they warned attendees not to “believe the hype” and doubted that substantive change would come from new-generation workers, the buyers had few supportive words for existing corporate travel infrastructure. Instead, they demanded some adaptation.

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Posted in Travel Policy

Tagged Business Travel, Compliance, Open Bookings, Travel Trends, Younger Generation

GUEST: Travel Manager Jennifer Steinke

Posted on July 12, 2012 | Leave a comment

US Foods corporate travel, meetings and expense director Jennifer Steinke helped GDSX shape the recently announced TripLink product and is planning to implement it in August. She comments here on the solution and related changes to her program.

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Posted in Travel Managers

Tagged Business Travel, Compliance, GDS, GDSX, Open Bookings, TMCs, Travel Trends

Concur To Clients: Let Travelers Book Where They Want, We’ll Track It

Posted on May 25, 2012 | Leave a comment

Concur is initiating discussions with airlines to enable “open bookings” that would give corporate clients the ability to enforce policy, apply discounts and track transactions when travelers book on airline websites.

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Posted in Travel Policy

Tagged Compliance, Concur, Open Bookings, Technology, Travel Managers, Travel Policy

Travel Policy: Softly, Softly or the Iron Fist?

Posted on May 17, 2012 | Leave a comment

It is a debate that has been engaging the business travel community for more than a year now. Many see it as the industry’s most central issue: can travel managers continue to expect and require their travellers to comply with company travel policy or has technology liberated them from such obligations.

Billed under the headline of the “burning question”, it was the subject of a very lively debate at the spring forum of Management Solutions (UK) andACTE in London on May 15. What raised the temperature was the concept of the “happy traveller” put forward by Rodolfo Silva in the opening keynote speech.

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Posted in Travel Policy

Tagged Compliance, Mobile, Travel Managers, Travel Policy, Traveler Services, Younger Generation

Meet Samantha. The Future of Managed Travel?

Posted on May 9, 2012 | Leave a comment

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Posted in Innovation, Mobile

Tagged Business Travel, Compliance, Mobile, Samantha, TMCs, Travel Policy

Where Next for Travel Policy?

Posted on March 1, 2012 | Leave a comment

In the last ABTN analysis (RIP: the traditional corporate travel policy?), it was suggested that the days of the traditional, mandated travel policy may be numbered. This was based on a growing feeling that the current model was beginning to outlive its time with several factors were forcing change. These were generational and evolutionary but both were driven by rapidly advancing technology.

But if old-style travel policy is “dying” – as one leading industry figure put it – then the obvious next question is what will take its place?

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Posted in Travel Policy

Tagged Compliance, Hotels, Requirements, ROI, Travel Policy, Traveler Services

Unshackled Business Travelers to Roam Free on the Web

Posted on February 24, 2012 | Leave a comment

Letting the business travel community search and book whatever they want online for business trips is not unheard of as Google has been allowing its employees the freedom since 2008.

It’s a trend that Traveldoo founder and boss Nabih El Aroussi thinks will take hold within the next few years especially because as much of 50% of the business travel market remains unmanaged.

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Posted in Travel Policy

Tagged Business Travel, Compliance, Mobile, Technology, Travel Policy

American Express Survey Finds Huge Mobile Gap in Corporate Travel Policies

Posted on February 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

It’s as if these global, multinational and midsize corporations had blinders on about their employees and their travels.

American Express Global Business Travel surveyed nearly 100 of these businesses about their corporate travel policies and found several shocking gaps, including one related to mobile adoption.

“None of the travel policies addressed the use of mobile applications or even referenced tools they may have available for travelers to use on the road or when working remotely,” American Express states. That is “none,” as in zero out of 100.

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Posted in Innovation Gap

Tagged American Express, Compliance, Mobile, Survey, Travel Policy