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we help corporates reduce their total cost of
travel & expense, increase control and provide enhanced traveller services


For every £1 spent on bookings, another 89p is spent on ancillary travel & support costs

Maintaining policy & compliance in today's environment of web, GDS and supplier direct fares is the key travel management issue

The Business Perspective
Cost reduction is an imperative for businesses in any economic climate. Never before has there been such an opportunity to reduce the total cost of T&E - not just the cost of booking. We take a total T&E view from strategic sourcing through to improved VAT recovery to deliver both direct cost savings and process improvement

We help corporates

Develop a strategy for total T&E cost reduction
Improve policy & negotiation for all business travel activities
Improve traveller services
Improve travel processes
Improve expense management and recovery
Create consolidated MI across the T&E process
Improve VAT recovery

Reduce audit costs

Intelligent travel portal
Our unique intelligent travel portal increases compliance to policy by dynamically displaying full travel & expense policy at the time of booking. Bookings can be made through GDS, web or by supplier direct connections

 

The Travel Management Perspective
A recent item Consulting survey of UK travel managers identified their three key issues:

How to take advantage of the multiplicity of fare sources while maintaining policy & compliance
How to leverage and deliver travel technology effectively in the enterprise environment
How to create a global strategy

We help travel managers
Integrate fares & booking tools from multiple sources
Improve policy & negotiation for all business travel activities
Benchmark their travel services
Create consolidated MI
Select and implement technology
Increase technology adoption
Create added value travel portals
Implement expense management solutions
Define and implement global strategies


item Consultants have worked with major corporates such as Ericsson, Nestlé and Ofcom


 
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