Hotel Price Assurance Technology from BCD Travel drives corporate travel savings by monitoring hotel room reservations and rebooking if the price drops. When used in alignment with a company’s business goals and corporate culture, Hotel Price Assurance balances travel savings with traveler experience.
Small steps can have big results for corporate travel programs because they make travel buyer’s goals easier to achieve, as BCD Travel’s Heinz Jennewein explains in a new LinkedIn post.
BCD Travel clients in Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Czech Republic and Poland can now book flights, hotel nights and rental cars in one app, all in line with the travel policy. More markets in EMEA and North America will follow soon.
BCD Travel offers advice on finding the right expense tool for your program.
Lower corporate travel costs and boost sustainability with tactics that won’t hurt your business.
Multinational pizza restaurant chain relies on a single view of employee data to improve duty of care for travelers and local employees. A bonus: Booking compliance has risen 21 percentage points.
Managing corporate travel to increase sustainability has rapidly morphed from a feel-good nicety to an absolute necessity. Research shows business travelers are calling for more eco-friendly travel options, and companies are listening. BCD Travel’s Tony McGetrick offers three ways travel buyers can jump-start sustainability using program management tactics already in their toolkits.
The newly formed BCD Travel Italy offers corporate travel, M&E and travel consolidation services.
Emerging technologies can make performance management – the activities travel managers should already be undertaking to improve their travel programs – more powerful. That’s according to Performance Management: Emerging technologies and business, the latest report from BCD Travel’s Research & Innovation team.
A new set of sustainability-focused services from Advito and parent company BCD Travel will help clients find ways to reduce travel demand and mitigate the environmental impact of business travel. The new service is called Sustainable Collaboration.
Aircraft maker Boeing has been in crisis mode since two of its 737 Max jets crashed, one in October 2018 and the other in March 2019, killing 346 people. All Max flights were halted around the world after the second crash. The grounding of Max planes is having an impact on business travel worldwide, but Europe is particularly exposed.
BCD Travel has been named a 2020 top company for remote work by FlexJobs, an online resource for professionals seeking telecommuting, flexible schedules and part-time work. BCD Travel, ranked No. 41 of 100 this year, has made the list seven times. BCD is one of only 20 companies to have made FlexJobs’ list every year since 2014.
Some hoteliers are failing to make agreed-upon rates available to business travelers. Companies and their TMCs are pushing back with rate-availability audits.
Fifty-eight percent of surveyed female business travelers said they have changed travel plans because they felt unsafe. Destination, environment and time of day can heighten the chance of an incident. BCD Travel has compiled four tips to help keep women travelers safer on trips.
Swapping traditional air RFPs for Dynamic Performance Management fits Finastra’s business and its travel leader’s focus on partnership. He is asking airlines for contracts without expiration dates. He and the carriers will tweak the terms, as needed, during quarterly reviews.