Artificial Intelligence in Business Travel

Artificial Intelligence in Business Travel

From intuitive chatbots to predictive analytics, AI offers businesses significant efficiencies and raises important questions around data privacy, ethics, and sustainability. At Gray Dawes Travel, we’re embracing AI, but understand that it needs to be done responsibly. In this article, we explore the negative impact of AI, how we, as an organisation, can mitigate these impacts, and look to the future of the technology and how it might enhance travel. 

The Practical Guide to Maximising Traveler Wellbeing

The Practical Guide to Maximising Traveler Wellbeing

How can you keep your travellers happy before, during and after a trip? What steps can you and your TMC take to ensure that their experiences on the road are healthy and relatively stress-free? In this practical guide to traveller wellbeing, we take a deep dive into how travel bookers can better support employees both away on a work trip and when they come home.

Paris: A Business Traveler’s Guide

Paris: A Business Traveler’s Guide

Nestled on a north-curving arc of the vast river Seine, Paris is renowned the world over for its history-rich streets, its devotion to fine art and fashion, and its unrivalled menu of gastronomic delights, from melt-in-the-mouth croissants to the sweet taste of French onion soup. The city and broader Paris region is also a significant economic and diplomatic powerhouse at the heart of Europe – its nominal GDP of ~£640 billion in 2021 was the highest in the entire European Union, and 29 companies listed in the Fortune Global 500 call the area home. In this comprehensive guide to Paris for business travellers, we delve deeper into navigating the city’s unique corporate landscape, offer our top tips for getting around, and pick out our top 3 things to see or do to make your trip unforgettable. 

What Does Good Customer Service Look Like?

What Does Good Customer Service Look Like?

What does good customer service look like? For Gray Dawes, travel management isn’t just about our award-winning technology or access to comprehensive travel content – even if these are vitally important to a travel programme. In this article, we spoke to our very own Julie Hamstead-Wallis, an experienced Operations Manager, about what makes good customer service, the importance of building rapport, and how Gray Dawes goes the extra mile to help our clients get the most out of their travel.