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A global IT & Technology company aimed to increase adoption of their online booking tool (OBT) Concur among employees in India. While other Asia-Pacific Japan (APJ) markets showed high online adoption rates, India’s adoption remained low five years after the OBT was introduced. The company wanted to improve the booking experience for travelers and save costs. The tech company’s air travel is 80% domestic point to point travel, with 70% booked on low-cost carriers. Although travelers were able to use Concur to book flights, they were reluctant to do so.

FlexJobs® has ranked BCD Travel 12th on its list of Top 100 Companies to Watch for Remote Jobs in 2024. The 11th annual list is based on an analysis of approximately 60,000 companies and their remote job posting histories in the FlexJobs database between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023. BCD has appeared on this list nine times.

Through our Making a Difference (MAD) initiative, BCD employees across the globe engage in volunteering and fundraising activities for small, targeted projects that directly benefit children in their local communities.

Are you plugged in to the “Connections with BCD Travel” podcast? Catch our final episode of 2023, featuring Stephan Baars, President & CEO, and Mike Janssen, COO and CCO. Stephan and Mike talk about everything – from their BCD origin stories to what they’ve heard in 2023 and what excites them about the year ahead.

The travel program team for Cracker Barrel, a U.S. restaurant and gift store chain with over 73,000 employees at 650 locations, is responsible for reconciling all travelers’ hotel charges each month. Previously manual and paper-intensive processes caused issues and delays for the travel team and the accounting and finance departments. Cracker Barrel needed a solution that would improve the reconciliation processes and restore balance in their travel program. BCD Travel integrated Virtual Payment Automation (VPA), saving Cracker Barrel $15,000 in annual costs and 40+ hours monthly on manual processing. Check out our case study below.

Geopolitical risks, climate change, and technology advancements all have the potential to affect operations – including business travel – in 2024. That’s according to intelligence provided by risk and security experts Crisis24, a BCD Travel marketplace partner. Crisis24 provides security advisory, crisis management, cyber security, executive protection and journey management, and travel security services. Their recently produced Global Risk Forecast 2024 forecast examines why, how and where key world events could cause disruptions.

For the seventh consecutive year and eleventh time total, BCD Travel was recognized as the Most Admired Travel Management Company (TMC) by the BTN Group. The announcement was made at the 16th annual The Beat Live on Dec. 5 in New York City. The Beat, a widely read business travel newsletter and website published by the BTN Group, asks readers each year to name their most admired technology company, travel management company, airline, payment company, lodging brand and car rental brand.

Spain’s leading travel group Ávoris Corporación Empresarial and BCD Travel have expanded their strategic partnership to Portugal. Travel agency Barceló Viagens, part of the Ávoris group, is one of Portugal’s leading travel companies. As BCD’s exclusive official representative in Portugal and member of its Global Network, they will now operate as BCD Travel Portugal, making BCD the leading corporate travel company in the Iberian Peninsula.

The BCD Travel Research and Intelligence team has published its 2024 outlook for economic prospects, key risks, projected prices for air, hotel, and car rental, sustainable travel trends, and more.

Don’t miss out on FOCUS 2023, happening Dec. 5-6 in London. BCD Media & Entertainment experts will greet you there on the show floor.

BCD is partnering with Hiring Our Heroes (HOH) to provide workforce development experiences to highly skilled and educated transitioning service members, veterans, military spouses and caregivers in the U.S. military community. Hiring Our Heroes connects participants with American businesses to create economic opportunity and a strong and diversified workforce.

BCD won the ‘Travel Partner of the Year – Large TMC’ award at the Business Travel Awards Europe 2023 in London and TMC of the Year at the Zakenreis Awards 2023 in the Netherlands.

As the leading life sciences travel management and meetings company, BCD’s Life Science Center of Excellence (LSCOE) services over 100 organizations in this sector across travel, meetings and consulting, including 90% of the top 20 pharmas in the world. Get to know the team.

One major barrier to clinical trial participation is economic stability. Many people, especially those experiencing health crises, simply do not have the financial means to participate in the trials. The BCD Travel Life Sciences Center of Excellence (LSCOE) works with organizations to remove financial barriers to patient access, helping increase participation and decrease trial attrition.

Jonathan Kao, the current Managing Director for Greater China, will assume an expanded role as the Managing Director for North Asia, effective January 1, 2024. Kao will oversee BCD Travel’s operations in China, Hong Kong, and Japan.

Smarter sourcing begins with understanding market conditions, internal drivers for travel, and specific needs across stakeholder groups.

BCD Travel, Advito and BCD Media & Entertainment will attend conferences in Amsterdam, Hamburg and London in November. Check out our schedule below.

Nationals from the Gulf Cooperation Countries (GCC) will be first to benefit from the United Kingdom (UK) Electronic Travel Authorization (ETA) scheme. Applications are now open for Qatari nationals.

Sustainability isn’t just climate concerns and carbon actions. To be sustainable, you need to focus on people. And people are at the heart of diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategies. BCD Senior Vice President of DE&I Yvette Bryant shares how Sustainability and DE&I work together, with insight into BCD’s journey.

BCD Senior Vice President Kathy Bedell and BCD TV host Chad Lemon met at GBTA Convention 2023 in Dallas to discuss protecting the LGBTQ+ mobile workforce. Kathy Bedell’s take: Information is power when it comes to pre-, during and post-trip preparation and feedback from travelers.

The A21 Walk For Freedom took place across the world on Saturday, Oct. 14. The annual event raises awareness and funds to end human trafficking. This year, BCD Travel staffers across the regions were among the tens of thousands of participants. The walk took place in over 425 communities in more than 56 countries and reached nearly 800 million people through media. Here’s what some of our people had to say about their experience.

GBTA + VDR Europe Conference 2023 – Hamburg is the place to be Nov. 14-16. If you’re planning to attend the show, please book an appointment with the BCD team and add our sessions to your show agenda.

In this episode of BCD TV, our Global COO and CCO Mike Janssen talks about heading into to the end of the year with a positive outlook as economic growth, client wins and employee retention all trend up.

For the fourth consecutive year, BCD Travel has received a Platinum rating from EcoVadis, the world’s largest and most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings. With this Platinum rating, we maintain our position in the top 1% of the 100,000+ companies assessed by EcoVadis. As part of the assessment, BCD has been rated as ‘Advanced’ in EcoVadis’ Carbon Action Module. The module is a comprehensive carbon management solution integrated with EcoVadis ratings to engage suppliers and drive decarbonization across the supply chain.