WELCOME
TO BETTER BUSINESS TRAVEL
Hello. We’re delighted Currys has chosen Gray Dawes to be your new travel partner.
No doubt you’re wondering how business travel now works in Currys? How do you contact your new dedicated team of Travel Consultants? Where do you find the online booking tool? Don’t worry. To help get you up and running in no time, we’ve created this web page. It’s packed full of useful information, videos, tutorials, links, downloads and more… all designed to allay any uncertainties and teach you all you need to know about your Gray Dawes Travel solution.
So, grab yourself a coffee and take a good look around. This is what better business travel looks like!
PERSONAL SERVICE
small dedicated team
24/7 - 365
around the clock service
FAST RESPONSE
calls answered within 3-5 rings
CRISIS MANAGEMENT
in-house 24 hour emergency assistance
MAXIMUM CHOICE
minimum of 3 fare options in 2 hours
POLICY AUTOMATION
automated policy compliance
HIGH TECH
Intuitive travel apps and beautiful booking tools designed to delight.
HIGH TOUCH
A personal touch delivered by real people with a passion for travel.
HIGH CONTENT
We deliver the widest choice and the best rates and fares available.
YOUR TRAVEL TEAM
Travelling With You
Before, during and after every trip, we’re with Currys all the way
Hello and welcome to Gray Dawes.
My name is Matthew Bond and I’m delighted to introduce myself as Currys’ dedicated Account Manager. From the start, you can be confident that the service you’ll be getting isn’t just tailored to exceed your expectations, it’s guaranteed to make you smile. Think of us as an extension of your own organisation; the out-of-house Currys travel team!
My role as your travel partner is to uncover what value means to Currys and create an Extra Mile Programme specifically to underpin how we’ll enhance your travel programme and your business against targeted KPIs.
Of course, we can talk to you about products and services. But that’s what every TMC can (and will) give you. What you’ll also get from Gray Dawes is status and affiliation with the best TMC in the business. You’ll enjoy being part of a wider community and benefit from the partnership we build.
Happy travels!
Matthew Bond | Your Account Manager
TRAVEL TEAM
Quick Contact Details
- your team: Team Echo
- email us: currys@gdg.travel
- call the Team on: 0161 509 1020
- account manager: Matthew Bond
Your Team of Travel Consultants
Beth Williams
Operations Manager
Jessica Marsh
Reservations Supervisor
Billy Li
Travel Consultant
Joanne Simpson
Travel Consultant
Christian Woods
Travel Consultant
Podcast Now Available
Our Travel Talks webinar series is now available to listen to as a podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast and Google Podcasts. Simply pick your preferred platform and subscribe to be kept up to date. Listen to these great insights at home, on a flight, in the car – wherever and whenever’s convenient for you.
YOUR NEW TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY
single platform solution across offline and online for improved content, enhanced service and a better travel experience
YourTrip
Online Booking Tool
Access multi-channel content for unrivalled choice and the best fares when booking air, hotel, rail, car and ancillaries. Presenting GDS, web and supplier direct (NDC) rates in a simple and intuitive interface.
Portal
Complete Travel Management
A secure and client-tailored environment in which travelers, travel arrangers and travel managers can easily access our entire suite of online travel tools and technologies, all from a single sign-on.
TripSure
Travel Itinerary & Risk Management
See the location status of all your travelers instantly, with customisable alerts and notifications, destination risk management, health and security advice and comprehensive itinerary management.
YourTrip
Your online booking tool for business travel
Access multi-channel content for unrivalled choice and the best fares when booking air, hotel, rail, car and ancillaries. Presenting GDS, web, NDC and supplier direct rates in a simple and intuitive interface, YourTrip is the easy to use online booking tool that’ll help get you to wherever you want to go.
Portal
Complete corporate travel management at your fingertips
Portal – our brand new and proprietary personalised travel management platform – is designed to be the very heart of our service offering.
Portal provides a single personalised environment from which you and your travelers, travel arrangers and travel managers can easily access our full suite of online travel tools and technologies, including traveler profiles, trip information, online booking, duty of care information, data and much, much, more.
Portal has been designed to be easy and intuitive to use and is fully cloud secure. To ensure simple mass deployment, and to encourage high levels of adoption and satisfaction, Portal can be accessed via single sign-on – removing the need for users to have to remember yet another username and password combination!
TripSure
Total travel itinerary, risk management and trip monitoring on the move
Track every element of your business trip from a single app, from flight gate changes to destination weather reports and everything in between.
Welcome to TripSure, the indispensable business travel app from Gray Dawes. Working seamlessly with our online booking tool, YourTrip, TripSure constantly monitors every element of every trip, sending customised alerts so you and your travellers can stay ahead of the curve on every trip.
Follow The Sun
We’re always on for you, when you need us and where you need us
The old ‘out of hours’ service offering is now a thing of the past. In fact, Gray Dawes doesn’t have an out of hours operation. That’s because we are ALWAYS ON, no matter where and when in the world you are.
Our unique ‘follow the sun’ service model is achieved via our four core Gray Dawes locations: USA, UK, Australia and the Netherlands. Each operation hands over to the next around the clock, meaning a seamless Gray Dawes service to our clients with consistent service levels, technology, data and care.
WHO WE ARE
THIS IS GRAY DAWES
Unquestionable and award-winning quality
Our proprietary travel technology is totally flexible and completely tailored to your organisation. We’ve partnered with the market-leaders, Atriis, to create YourTrip – a powerfully versatile yet rewardingly simple booking engine.
Because that’s how it should be.
Whether offline or online, agent managed or client self-service, YourTrip delivers a seamless and content-rich business travel booking experience.
GRAY DAWES
TRAVEL BROCHURE
Want to find out more about us? Please take some time to browse through our entire website, not just this landing page. Or you can view or download our brochure .
We achieve this because of the depths we go to in understanding our clients; their culture, their values and their objectives. Only then can we deliver on a higher level, with our trademark emphasis on the personal touch. Only then can we delight with remarkable value, innovation and service.
That’s what we call ‘better’ travel.
GREATER THAN THE
SUM OF OUR PARTS
We don't just specialise in business travel you know.
We're a part of the Gray Dawes Group, an organisation with specialisms and expertise in many sectors. If you need help planning the holiday of your dreams, or showcasing an event that'll never be forgotten, then we've got you covered.
Whether it’s finding the perfect meeting space for your next sales team get-together, creating the wow factor for your company conference or everything in between, you’re in the right place.
Gray Dawes Events are part of the Gray Dawes Group – one of the UK’s largest independent travel management companies. With specialist, award-winning divisions providing tailored services for business travel, luxury leisure travel and meetings & events (that’s us!), we enjoy all the benefits that brings, both in terms of buying power and industry clout.
WHAT HAPPENS NOW?
Let’s get you started booking business travel.
Go live day is Tuesday 7 May, 2024
TUTORIALS
DROP-IN SESSIONS
Save your seat at our live training events
Over the next few months we’re running drop-in sessions just for you; holding your hand through the implementation stage and ensuring we answer all your business travel questions.
You’ll be able to use these sessions to ask anything, from the basics of how to book a flight, hotel, rail and car hire etc., both via your dedicated Travel Team and using our online booking tool, YourTrip, through to learning more about the wealth or products and services you now have at your disposal, including PORTAL – all part of the Gray Dawes Travel solution.
Look out for more details of the Drop-In sessions, coming via the Currys internal communications.
HOW TO videos
Step by step guides to your new travel tools
We appreciate that learning a new online booking tool can be a little daunting. Don’t worry, our YourTrip tool is super intuitive and really user friendly, so you’ll be booking your next trip in no time.
Below you’ll find a range of short tutorial videos which will help get you started using YourTrip for booking everything from flights, hotels and rail to ground transportation and car hire.
And did you know that YourTrip is the same system software that your Gray Dawes Travel Team uses, so whether offline or online, agent managed or self-service, YourTrip delivers a seamless and content-rich business travel booking experience.
YourTrip
TUTORIAL VIDEOS
The above button will take you to a collection of ‘how to’ guides that’ll quickly get you started using the new user interface of our online booking tool YourTrip, launched in late 2023. Alternatively, here you’ll also find a handy range of tutorials for the legacy version of YourTrip, covering everything from:
- How to book a flight
- How to book rail
- How to book a hotel
… and much more!
TRAVEL TALKS
Our regular webinar series, Travel Talks, discusses all things business travel in an informal, chat show style format. Episodes cover everything from top tips on saving money in your corporate travel programme to how to be the best business travel booker, corporate travel sustainability to unravelling the mysteries of NDC.
PRODUCTS
Better Process
We are a totally digital travel management company with a very personal approach to service deliver. The tool used by your dedicated team of travel consultants is exactly the same one you’ll use online for simple trips. So whether arranging travel with us, from your smartphone on the go or on your laptop in the office, it’s all in sync, cutting down on paperwork and improving processes.
Time is Money
While you can find a flight or hotel room at a good price using a metasearch engine or online travel agency, you may not be finding the best options or rates and it can take you a lot more time – time better spent running your business! Plus, the dangers of DIY business travel come with no guarantee that a booking is within your travel policy, creating the real possibility of a refund or change.
Policy Perfection
Your travel policy should be an ever evolving thing, ensuring it remains relevant to what’s happening in the world and within your own company. We’re here to guide, steer and manage all of that for you. As your own out-of-house travel department, we’ll manage your travel programme to drive enhancements across value, safety, sustainability and service.
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