Fox World Travel was announced as a 2021 Travel Weekly Magellan Award recipient for the Custom Technology Innovations in the Travel Advisor Organizations – Overall-Technology
As Travel Category Manager at Motorola and now Sysmex America, Tam Clark specializes in strategic sourcing of corporate travel. She’s been involved in choosing new TMCs and has advice for travel managers looking for the best experience possible for themselves and their travelers.
No matter how large or small your travel program is, you have travelers who are affected by your travel policy decisions. It’s important to think about the individual traveler and their journey to identify areas where there may be pain points. Consider these simple policy changes if elevating your traveler journey is on your priority list.
Partnering with a TMC has a return on investment that goes beyond just monetary savings. By preparing to talk about the following key topics, you’ll be able to show your leaders the full value of a managed travel program.
Before becoming Travel Coordinator with the Houston Rockets and then CAA ICON, Cassie Edwards spent the majority of her career in sales with Continental and United Airlines. Although her travel industry experience proved a valuable foundation for a travel manager role, she also needed to learn the intricacies of overseeing a corporate travel program. To do that, she leaned on her professional relationships, travel industry resources and her travel management company.
Evaluating the needs of your travel program can be a challenging process, especially given the drastic changes in the industry. It is crucial to understand not only what your travel management company (TMC) offers in terms of personalized service, travel supplier vendor agreements, negotiations and technology offerings, but quite possibly even more important is their strength and “staying power”.
Although many travel managers have been able to base their organization’s return to travel decisions on CDC guidance, local government restrictions and the personal comfort of their travelers, those serving organizations providing essential services needed to devise strategies to keep travelers safe and comfortable during the spread of COVID-19. As the Travel Management Company for several essential service organizations, Fox World Travel supports travel managers and travelers in several ways.
The role of a travel manager can often feel more like a communications coordinator. Between policy changes, travel restrictions, duty of care and technology updates,
What is your TMC doing for you while your travel is stalled? Your role as a travel manager is just as important, if not more, than usual. Many travel managers are getting more questions than ever from your organization and travelers on your travel policy and program.
When a company is ready to approach staff business travel needs strategically, it often looks to the services and products a travel management company provides.
Fox World Travel recently launched accelerated implementations to support business travel programs in making a quick transition when the unexpected happens. We’ve interviewed Fox’s Project Management Office (PMO) Manager Chasity Schlimm, who leads our implementation strategy to talk about this new program and how planning for an essential pivot can protect your organization, and in some cases save your reputation.
Sometimes it can be difficult to explain to them the benefits of booking within policy and through the proper channels, too often its only after a sticky situation occurs that travelers really see the benefit of their travel policy. As a part of your ‘business traveler adventure series’ we are taking a look at duty of care in this story.
Feeling inspired and want to talk about creating a win together? Let’s create something to celebrate. Contact Fox today.
