The Busy Business Traveller Blog

Corporate travel has been on an unprecedented growth trajectory in recent years. As business models become increasingly global, companies will spend $1.7 trillion by 2022to send their employees traveling around the world. Corporate travel is the top growth market with Australia’s travel market, jumping 11 percent to 21.3 million travelers in the 12 months to March 2018 and with business travel spend increasing 6 percent to over $16 billion in the same period. In fact, the prospect of travel and having a good corporate travel policy has become a recruitment question and a means of attracting talent for many companies. Travel policy data found that 44% of business travelers would actually leave a job due to poor travel policy, while 50% say that a company’s travel policy would impact their decision to take a job. With travel now having a direct impact on a businesses’ bottom line, we’re seeing examples of greater flexibility in travel policies to reflect the desire, status, and ex...

A managed travel program saves time and money. Could your company benefit? Business travel plays a major role in the functionality of your company as well as the lives of your employees. If you are not working with a company that specialises in corporate travel services , you may be missing out on valuable resources, services, and savings. Here are 4 Signs That You Could Benefit from A Managed Travel Program: You lack the human resources. Travel management often falls on someone with no training or experience in corporate travel. Company time and money is wasted when that person isn’t doing their job (but rather is comparing booking sites, airfares and assembling itineraries). A travel management company knows where to find savings. You have little or no travel management industry knowledge. Do you know the most effective practices and/or best practices for corporate travel policies? How about knowing when and what to negotiate with travel suppliers? If not, you are defi...

As a company grows, so does its corporate reach. Doing business within ever-increasing geographic boundaries is the natural evolution for ambitious CEOs. As this unfolds, business travel expenses escalate. In some organizations, these expenses escalate so quickly, the company loses the ability to effectively track and manage these expenses. This can quickly spin out of control into a genie-out of-the-bottle situation, since the travel budget for many companies represents the second largest controllable expense outside of wages and benefits. In some worst-case scenarios, it becomes a slush fund for personal indulgences masked as fraudulent travel and entertainment expenses. As with many business challenges, there can be multiple solutions.  For most, the implementation of, and adherence to, a Corporate Travel Policy is the first step (this could be an article of its own) and for a fair contingent of these companies, the use of a corporate Travel Management Company (TMC) serves as...

Flights require a particular set of items if you want to remain comfortable and relaxed. The more you travel, the more you learn what to pack — and what to leave behind. As a corporate travel agency , committed to simplifying all your travel requirements and business travels - TravelManor keeps up to date on ways to make your corporate travel easier and more prepared. We hope this blog has some useful and usable travel tips. As someone who has taken 15 flights in the last year, there are several items that are must-haves when traveling. Of course, it's a learn-by-doing process, but I've finally distilled my carry-on bag to a compact assortment of essentials. Each time I step foot on an airplane, I bring with me what I like to call my "plane kit." The kit is an assortment of smaller items grouped together in a makeup bag that I take from flight to flight. This way, I don't have to keep repacking my flight essentials and am sure that everything I need ...