When air travel isn’t the obvious choice, or when the destination is unfamiliar, travelers turn to their favorite search engines to find out how to get from place to place—from door to door.
A challenge for the traveler
Jumping from site to site, it can be impossible for travelers to make sense of the options.
- Should I take a train or plane?
- Will I save time – or the planet – if I drive?
- What’s the best way to get from the airport to my appointment?
- Should I take a train instead of driving to prepare for my meeting?
- Is video conferencing an option?
- We’re spread out all over. What city is the best location to hold our team meeting?
A challenge for your program
Travelers who book through other channels put a serious dent in your program’s impact. First, important data is lost – data that you can use in negotiations with suppliers to get better rates. And data that helps you locate travelers in need. Second, consider the impact to your bottom line when special rates are left unused. Outside bookings come at a measurable cost. And, what about traveler productivity? When travelers have to go to multiple websites just to figure out how to best book their upcoming trip, valuable work time is lost and frustration increased.
So what is the solution?
Keep travelers engaged by making it simple for them to plan their travel based on their priorities and within policy. To help you do that we have partnered with routeRANK to offer Total Trip Planning. This innovative planning tool makes it easy to personalize trip planning as you influence their decisions with preferred content from your online booking tool.
How it works
Total Trip Planning offers travelers one website to plan the total trip across different modes of transportation. This solution blends information from traditional booking channels with additional sources, such as rail, public transport schedules, drive times and environmental impact. This gives the traveler a way to assess travel options that are not available through one source today. In a single view, travelers can determine the journey that’s best for them – whether their decisions are driven by mode, price, scheduling, the ability to work or sleep en route, or the trip’s environmental impact. And because video conferencing services can be loaded into the system, the traveler can even decide to save time and money by having a virtual meeting.
Total Trip Planning also helps travelers find the best location for meetings when groups of travelers need to meet in person. Should they meet at one of their respective offices? Or what about an airport conference facility? Or is there another location central to all of them that would best meet their criteria?
What this means to you
Total Trip Planning offers benefits to you and your travelers. With this solution you can:
- Offer the traveler easy, precise planning with a single display for rail, auto, public transport and video conference options
- Let the traveler build the right itinerary based on price, scheduling, productivity while en route or environmental impact
- Contribute to the bottom line by minimizing “leakage”
- Maintain control over data
- Support reduction of a company’s carbon footprint
- Reduce unnecessary travel by offering virtual meeting alternatives
