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BCD maintains EcoVadis Platinum for 5th time
BCD’s sustainability strategist Sharon Dirks explains why this recognition matters and what we’re doing to continuously improve our efforts to protect people and the planet.
A business traveler’s guide to Tokyo
Make the most of your business trip to Japan’s capital city, with insider tips on navigating culture – from business attire to dining etiquette to tattoos.
BCD podcasts: The industry’s NDC mistake and spend management lies
Recent episodes of the Connections with BCD Travel discuss two controversial topics: Recent episodes of the Connections with BCD Travel podcast discuss two controversial topics: Why can’t the NDC issue be fixed without involving clients and travelers, and why we’re all just blindly accepting untruths about T&E spend management.
What to look for in a Travel Management Company?
Finding the right Travel Management Company (TMC) to partner with your organization requires strategic planning, a methodical process and involvement from the right travel stakeholders.
Travel buyers are responsible for how an organization uses travel and meetings to help achieve their broader goals. Partnering with the right TMC leads to improved safety, productivity and wellbeing for business travelers and streamlined processes and cost savings for your organization.
The TMC should demonstrate broad experience in managing travel for organizations like yours. Identify the specific services you need from them, such as ability to connect travel program strategy to company mission and purpose, sector experience, hotel program expertise, sustainability, travel policy compliance, risk management, or a defined approach to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I).
Latest travel management resources
Visit our Business Travel Management Resources page for reports, case studies and tips to help you plan, streamline and optimize your company’s business travel.
Airline operations
These reports present a roundup of what’s been happening to airlines in the world over the last month.
Travel Market Report – Q3 Update
In this quarter’s edition, we summarise some changes coming to U.K. and European border controls, review the appeal of premium travelers to airlines, explore the issue of air turbulance and present the highlights from a traveler survey on flying for business and a travel manager survey on the role they perform. Detailed reports to follow.
Traveler Survey: Travel Policy
This survey explores corporate travel policies and looks at the changes happening to policies and traveler satisfaction with current regulations.
The results are based on an online survey of 1,201 business travelers worldwide. The survey was conducted from April 10-19, 2024.
BCD INVITE
Change how you manage guest travel
As business evolves, companies are relying more on contractors, consultants, and mobile professionals to travel on their behalf.
BCD Invite is an innovative solution designed to streamline the management of guest travel. Drive compliance, eliminate manual processes, keep information secure, and most importantly, safeguard your reputation by providing a best-in-class experience for your guest travelers. Because first impressions last.
How To Guides
How-to guides help travel managers and business travelers navigate every aspect of business travel, from planning and booking to budgeting and expense management, to ensure a smooth and successful trip.
How to manage cultural nuance on business trips
Business travelers who demonstrate a high level of cultural awareness may inspire greater confidence and rapport with the people they encounter on business trips.
How to safely evacuate from a plane
Knowing how to evacuate an aircraft safely can make all the difference in a risk situation. Based on insights from real incidents that happened this year, BCD’s Global Crisis Management team created this guide on how business travelers can safely evacuate from a plane during a disruption or emergency event.
How to incorporate sustainability into your hotel sourcing strategy
The days when hotel sourcing focused solely on rates, cancellation policies, and amenities are behind us. Today, the Request for Proposal (RFP) process is not just about finding the best deals. It’s an opportunity to align with suppliers who can help drive value for your preferred travel program and support global initiatives, like sustainability.
When entertainment is your business, every detail has to be right.
For more than 40 years, leading artists, sporting teams, labels, media and production companies have trusted us with their travel. We provide a broad array of global services tailored to your entertainment travel needs. That means a smoother experience for your travelers and greater savings for you. The benefit to you is that we provide the high-touch, white-glove service of a boutique firm with the global scope, investments in innovation and creativity of one of the world’s largest and most admired travel management companies. Visit BCD Media & Entertainment for more.Case Studies
Aerospace & Defense company reduces travel costs from last-minute bookings through DecisionSource® reporting
Discover how BCD’s Travel Report Card provides the client with actionable insights to encourage better booking behavior and keep costs down.
Agricultural company delves into global travel needs and reaps more than $3.6M in savings
Learn how BCD provided a large agricultural company with better solutions, resources and enhanced services to help identify savings in its global travel program.
Global pharmaceutical customer raises the patient centricity bar with dedicated end-to-end service
Read how BCD partnered with a global pharmaceutical customer to create a patient-centric program, prioritizing patients’ needs and offering them an exceptional experience.
Life Sciences
We know life sciences
We support customers across the healthcare spectrum through our Life Sciences Center of Excellence.
As the leading life sciences travel management and meetings company, we service over 100 organizations in this sector across travel, meetings and consulting, including 90% of the top 20 pharmas in the world.
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Our global network spans more than 100 countries. Find our location map and contact info here.