Fox World Travel has selected the Cvent Business Transient platform, formerly known as Lanyon, to provide Fox business clients with a robust, industry-leading hotel RFP solution. This relationship will support Fox’s ability to manage their clients’ complex hotel sourcing.
While achieving business traveler satisfaction might seem like a lofty goal, business travelers are clearly dictating what they want and need to not only do the job right when they’re on the road but to happily keep coming back for more.
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When it comes to protecting your travelers and your company, you may be wondering: What is business travel insurance? And, does your company need it? Simply put — business trip insurance can make all the difference when the going gets tough on the road.
As a travel manager, you juggle a lot of responsibility. You want corporate travel tools, including business travel apps, to make your life—and the job of your business travelers—easier. So, when you’re looking for a travel management company, finding a team that offers more than the standard corporate travel booking tools is essential.
Fox World Travel recently introduced enhanced passenger on a plane technology. This new functionality provides real-time notifications and controls so organizations can proactively manage the number of passengers on one flight.
Travel program consolidation is a key objective for travel managers. Successful program consolidation results in cost savings, strong vendor relationships, greater travel policy compliance, and, often, streamlined program administration.
Any organization with staff who travel for business will at some point ponder how to write a travel policy. After all, an effective travel policy encourages staff to be wise stewards of company resources, supports employees while on the road, and helps to manage traveler stress. But if your organization has never tackled the task of writing a travel policy, the undertaking can seem overwhelming.
As any travel manager knows, business travel booking through a corporate travel program has a number of benefits. Personal safety support and reducing traveler friction rank near the top. In the travel industry, there’s a new term coined to describe the near-constant state of fear that many travelers experience these days: permanxiety.
Corporate travel safety is an essential consideration for any company, and the importance of fulfilling your duty of care responsibility cannot be understated. No matter what your business, how your employees travel, or where they go, having a duty of care travel plan in place is fundamental to your organization’s success.
For many organizations, the first quarter brings a time of reprieve from hotel program sourcing. Negotiations are likely finalized and preferred hotels are selected for the year. And, the turn of the year is a few months removed from the necessity of beginning analysis and strategy for next year’s RFP. It’s the ideal time for a hotel audit.
When marketplace disruption occurs, it is typically related to consumer demand. In the sharing economy, both ride and accommodation sharing has moved beyond the niche and become mainstream in the world of travel. In the case of these travel disruptors, they have established themselves by providing something to the traveler that was needed, wanted and smart.
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