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Over the last two years it\u2019s no surprise that corporate travel became a complicated process. With varying domestic and international travel restrictions, passenger locator forms, vaccination requirements, isolation and quarantine periods, PCR tests and much, much more, travel became incredibly difficult to organise.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thankfully, that\u2019s where travel management companies come in, supporting businesses by providing the much-needed insight and expertise to<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>help their travellers in getting around<\/span>, not to mention the cost savings a good TMC can achieve compared to <\/span>\u201c<\/span><\/i>finding it <\/span><\/i>cheaper <\/span><\/i>yourself online<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span><\/i>. And in addition to helping you get from A to B, booking via a TMC helps ensure both employer and employee avoid risk and meet their duty of care obligations to one another.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Business Travellers \u2013 meet your duty of care to your employer<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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As travel begins to return in earnest, ensuring the safety of travellers is paramount. This starts with booking in<\/span>–<\/span>policy to ensure travellers are trackable throughout their journey. This isn\u2019t a case of big brother <\/span>keeping an eye on you<\/span>. Making booking<\/span>s<\/span> through your selected travel partner ensures that, in <\/span>the <\/span>case of an emergency, your company and your TMC can identify where <\/span>travellers<\/span> are, <\/span>help keep <\/span>them<\/span> safe<\/span> or get <\/span>them<\/span> home<\/span> fast.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider this scenario…<\/strong><\/p>\n

You book the flights for your multi-point business trip to mainland Europe through your TMC \u2013 a great first step. However, you then book your hotel\u2026 and an international rail journey and a second hotel for the final leg of your trip<\/span>, all<\/span> directly with the providers<\/span>. P<\/span>erhaps <\/span>you do this <\/span>in order to claim some sort of points or benefit through a personal account<\/span>?<\/span><\/p>\n

After you\u2019ve alighted from that first flight, no one has any idea where you are. A situation could unfold in your original destination country after you\u2019ve left and both your company and TMC may spend frantic and unnecessary time (and money) trying to locate you to ensure your safety. Or worse still, your final destination could experience some sort of emergency and your safety isn\u2019t considered as there\u2019s no knowledge that you\u2019re even there.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Booking all corporate travel with your TMC not only ensures you remain compliant and in-policy, it reduces risk, helps support your duty of care to your employer and more often than not provides the best available rates in one place.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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YourTrip<\/span>+<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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The latest feature addition to our booking tool, YourTrip+ enhanced with Grapevine\u2019s AI engine<\/strong><\/a>, enables automated recommendations for additional trip requirements such as hotels, transfers and more.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

By booking through these recommendation communications, you\u2019re guaranteed a great rate and play your part in reducing risk and meeting your duty of care requirements. All travel is booked in-policy and in one place, providing full visibility of your entire trip. And thanks to the advanced Artificial Intelligence<\/span> engine built in to <\/span>YourTrip<\/span>+<\/span>, the more you book, the more the tool understands your preferences and can provide personalised options based on your typical booking tastes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Staying informed<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/h4>\n

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Our Stay Safe service can also be added to bookings made through YourTrip. Stay Safe provides email and mobile notifications for your chosen destination and updates you as necessary both before and during your trip. Prior to your journey you\u2019ll receive emails with information that you should know before you go, and while you\u2019re away mobile notifications can be delivered in real time with any breaking or updated news <\/span>that\u2019s directly <\/span>relevant to you<\/span> and your trip<\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For the back office,<\/span> YourTrip<\/span> Cares\u2019 Global Monitoring provides comprehensive traveller tracking to ensure organisations know where their travelling employees are<\/span>,<\/span> at all times<\/span>. If an in<\/span>–<\/span>country risk unfolds, Global Monitoring provides the tools to communicate with relevant travellers to help ensure their safety.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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A two<\/span>–<\/span>way street where c<\/span>ommunication is key<\/span><\/span><\/h4>\n

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As companies and their employees begin returning to business travel, there\u2019s no better time to ensure that the right processes are in place to not only save money but reduce risk and ensure employee safety. But this is a two-way street. Businesses of course have a duty of care to their employees \u2013 they must provide the tools and procedures to keep them secure and safe.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But individual travellers have an equal stake in ensuring their own safety and meeting duty of care obligations to their employers. <\/span>Confirming<\/span> travellers fully understand this should be a priority for any company asking their employees to travel on business.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Highlighting the reasons behind the need to remain in policy is the best way to ensure the message sinks in and processes are followed. You can have the best, most comprehensive travel policy in the world, but if your travellers don\u2019t understand <\/span>why<\/span><\/i> they need to follow the rules and are booking elsewhere, then that policy may as well not exist.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With many years of specialist experience, TMCs are well versed in finding ways to help make those policies stick. It\u2019s this insight that has driven the advancement of business travel technology and the continual development of tools such as YourTrip. Even so, the features it provides rely on both businesses and their travellers understanding that they have a big part to play in self-regulating and following best practice for their own and the greater good.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You\u2019ll also find innovative and interactive virtual trips<\/a><\/strong>, which walk you through each step of\u00a0 being at the airport, on the train and in the hotel. You can even check the travel restrictions and health status of your destination with our comprehensive COVID-19 Country Tracker, updated five times daily to ensure you have the very latest information to help keep you and your travellers safe.<\/p>\n

Travel is changing. With common sense and a good TMC behind you, travellers can have the confidence to once again take to the skies. It\u2019ll soon be back business<\/em> as (un)usual.<\/p>\n

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