The Issue
The choices available to travellers at the
time of booking are increasing with online
access to GDSs, web and supplier direct fares
and rates.
Maintaining compliance to policy when cheaper
fares/rates may be available to travellers
online is a major concern to travel managers
as they strive for control. Management
information in this environment is
increasingly hard to produce.
Travel policy is more than just booking rules,
and provides guidelines on how to undertake
trips in terms of taxi, trains, food & drink,
daily allowances etc. These are usually
published in a travel policy document and are
not readily available to travellers at the
time of booking
Our Response
item Consulting has developed a web
based tool which solves these problems by:
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Defining policy for specific destinations |
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Promoting the booking channel to be used |
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Accessing fares from multiple sources |
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Identifying the preferred hotels for each
destination |
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Identifying ancillary policy related to
the destination |
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Providing additional travel information to
help reduce costs |
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Full pre-trip authorisation process which
calculates the full cost of the trip -
including all travel costs, hotel,
transfers, airport parking,
subsistence etc.. |
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The tool comes with a complete set of
booking tools, or can interfaces with any of the corporate's preferred booking tools or
channels. |
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The Benefit
The tool promotes the right policy at the time
of booking, and allows the travel manager to
control and direct travellers to use the best
sources for booking.
This has a direct benefit on increasing
compliance to policy and this reducing the
total cost of T&E.
For agents, it allows them to create branded
travel portals for their clients in less than
an hour.
►Read
what Ofcom say
Quick ePortal comes with a complete set of booking
tools, or can interface into your own
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air: GDS, net and 77 web sites
searched |
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hotel: GDS, merchant and direct
links |
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uk
rail: intermediary |
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car
hire: GDS, intermediaries, & direct |
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airport parking: direct &
intermediaries |
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chauffeured cars/taxi: direct |
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european rail: direct connect |
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ferry: intermediary |
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video conferencing: direct link |
Demonstration System now available
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Quick ePortal is now operating in a 7
major businesses. A full demonstration
system is available. |
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to see more benefits.... |
