For most companies, business travel is a vital part of their activities. But travel today is diverse and complex, with an increasing need for compliance, duty of care and cost efficiency.
Whether it’s a last-minute trip to a mine to perform critical repairs, a buyers trip to secure new fashion samples, a carefully planned incentive trip to reward top performers, or an essential client meeting to close a deal, each type of travel comes with its own unique set of needs, risks and expectations.
Each industry has vastly different needs, which is why Rennies BCD Travel doesn’t offer one-size-fits-all travel solutions — we’ve structured our business around specialist divisions designed to meet the unique needs of specific industries and travel types.
Let’s explore each category and how our specialists make sure each trip is customised to create the best possible experience.
Understanding the Different Types of Business Travel
Here’s a list of the most common types of corporate travel verticals:
- Transient/Normal Travel
- Mining & Remote Site Travel
- Meetings, Incentives, Conferences & Events (MICE)
- Marine, Oil & Gas Travel
- Bleisure Travel
Transient/ Normal Travel
If you’ve ever travelled to a meeting for work, you’ve undertaken a “normal” business trip. The backbone of the business travel industry includes small and mid-sized businesses all the way to multi-million-dollar conglomerates based across the globe. Regardless of size, these trips are generally undertaken by employees to perform their job function and usually include travelling to client meetings or attending company events or training. As the business grows, the requirements get more complex.
How we support it:
- Professional account management support to optimise the travel ROI
- Streamline processes with tools like automated approval, self-booking tools, etc.
- Negotiated corporate rates with preferred suppliers to reduce travel costs
- 24-hour travel support services
- Traveller tracking for traveller safety and security
- Detailed reporting for cost analysis and optimisation
- Expense management integration
Mining Travel: Remote Destinations and Unique Logistics
Safety is the top priority in the mining industry. Travel typically involves getting employees on rotation to mining sites, usually in remote destinations that can’t be reached with commercial transport. Trips involve charter flights or 4×4 ground transfers and accommodation either in the mining town (which is usually scarce) or in the mine facilities.
The mining travel specialists focus on:
- Creating strong relationships with the mines and regularly used suppliers
- The best flight connections to reach remote destinations
- Charter and 4×4 arrangements
- Experience in crew rotation scheduling
- 24/7 worldwide emergency service
- Traveller tracking to pinpoint employees
- Evacuation and on-the-ground support
Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Events (MICE) Travel
This MICE vertical differs from normal corporate travel management as it demands project management capabilities alongside event logistics expertise to deliver exceptional experiences. This travel can range from a small local meeting, to arranging a conference with guest speakers, to planning a VIP incentive to Mauritius that awards top performers or coordinating travel for 200 employees from across the globe to attend a three-day leadership summit in a castle in Prague. You name it, they do it.
How we support it:
- Virtual, hybrid and live meeting and event management
- Group rate negotiation with suppliers
- Venue sourcing and selection services
- Technology to automate registration and participant management
- Group transportation logistics
- On-site support during events
- Post-event reporting and analysis
- Budget management and reconciliation
Marine, Oil and Gas Travel: Extreme Logistics
Business travel within the marine, oil and gas sector represents the most specialised vertical. It is a highly regulated industry that requires moving personnel to offshore platforms and vessels along with distant energy production sites. Travel is often last-minute and requires specialist visas, work permits and integration with maritime operations. Our specialists become fully entrenched in their client’s business operations, where they work as an extension of the logistics team beyond their basic travel service functions.
How we support it:
- Understanding the industry-specific regulations
- Expertise in crew rotation logistics
- 24/7 emergency support with crisis response capabilities
- Strong relationships with specialised transportation providers
- Specialist marine fares worldwide
- Experience with evacuation procedures
Bleisure Travel: Merging Business with Leisure
Bleisure travel is the extension of a business trip with personal travel for employees who want to get more out of their business trips. It often involves family members joining for the extended portions of the trip. The emerging vertical demands that TMCs implement traditional corporate goals alongside leisure travel requirements while keeping compliance and expense management in check.
How we support it:
- Assist clients in developing corporate travel policies that incorporate bleisure travel
- Provide white-label leisure packages to enhance the employee value proposition
- Technology that can clearly separate business and personal components of a trip
- For the leisure segment of the trip, destination services and experiences are provided.
- Ensure transparent billing that separates the business costs from the personal part of the trip
Why this matters
Our promise is to help our clients “Travel smart. Achieve more.” We do this by simplifying complex travel with the right people, tools, and insights.
By designing travel management services that are fit for purpose, whether that purpose is a mine visit, a boardroom, or a beachside resort after a job well done, we make life easier on the road, save travellers time, and make them more productive. From a business perspective, this gives the company agility and control over travel and delivers the operational efficiency they are looking for.