Be ready for disruption with a travel risk management plan

The time to create a travel risk management plan is before you need it.

It’s impossible to know when the next travel disruption will happen. But one thing is certain: A major disruption will happen again.

As recent attacks in Paris and the official shutdown of Brussels have demonstrated, once again, the best time to create a travel risk management plan is before your company and your travelers need it.

Travel risk management experts at BCD Travel offer some advice for assessing your company’s readiness for disruptions and your ability to keep your travelers safe on the road:

  • If your travelers or travel program staff experienced any confusion or doubt about what to do when news broke about the attacks in Paris, waste no time in filling the gaps in your travel risk planning.
  • The best way to get started is by making sure all your traveler profiles include emergency contact information.
  • Ask your travel management company to guide you through the creation of a formal travel risk management plan—one that not only anticipates different levels of disruption, but also ensures your company knows where travelers are and how to reach them quickly.
  • Work with a security company to further reduce risk for employees who travel to higher-risk destinations. Here, again, your TMC can help.

Want to know more? A travel risk management quiz created by Martin Weisskirchen, BCD’s vice president of Global Crisis Management, can help you assess your company’s readiness.

Then read Travel Risk Management: Keeping Business Travelers Safe and Secure for a deeper dive into why travel risk management is essential and how to begin creating a corporate travel risk management plan.

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