Travel management is a specialism, which is based around organizing corporate travel, tracking your various travel expenses and devising a comprehensive travel strategy. As a discipline, it is intended to help businesses and their employees to optimize the way they deal with their travel needs. This means making sure everything is handled properly, while minimizing any negative impact on things like productivity and financial results.

Travel Managers also organize travel partnerships with hotels, airlines, car hire companies and other relevant services; create and update the travel policy; ensure employees are safe while on the road; plan meetings and schedules; ensure the travel experience is as productive and valuable as possible; and make sure staff adhere to the travel policy among other tasks. It’s a big job that requires a combination of expert training, attention to detail and people management skills.

Benefits of Travel Management

A major benefit of travel management is the ability to reduce costs associated with travel. This can include everything from airline tickets, to hotel room rates and travel insurance. Generally, travel management specialists will have industry contacts and enough experience to find or negotiate the best deals.

By handing responsibility for this to a dedicated travel manager, or a travel management team, individual employees can also spend far more of their time doing core day-to-day tasks and less time on planning trips.

Once a travel strategy is in place, those offering travel management services can also help you to continually improve that strategy, by reporting on your business travel expenses and suggesting useful changes.

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References

https://www.revfine.com/travel-management/ Accessed on December 20, 2020

https://blog.locomote.com/12-travel-management-tips-that-everyone-should-know Accessed on December 20, 2020