Consistent access to the best rates on flights and hotels is one of the most effective ways to manage travel costs, but navigating a fragmented market can be complex and time-consuming without the right tools or expertise.
Business travel can represent a significant portion of a business's annual expenditure. Ensuring employees reach their destinations safely, on time, and within budget is a top priority for corporate managers. Our customers expect us to make their travel strategies more cost-effective, and to give them access to the best deals.
Consistent access to the best rates on flights and hotels is one of the most effective ways to manage travel costs, but navigating a fragmented market can be complex and time-consuming without the right tools or expertise.
That’s where Club Travel Corporate comes in. We tap into a wide range of content sources to secure the most competitive deals across airlines, hotels, and other services - ensuring maximum value and convenience for your business. Read on to discover how we can utilise our extensive network of content sources to get the best deals suited to your employees for your next corporate travel trip.
Travel content broadly refers to bookable components of a trip, including airfares, accommodation, car rentals, transfers, and other ancillary services. There are various distribution channels where these elements can be sourced from, with methods of accessing them having evolved significantly in recent years.
Traditionally, Global Distribution Systems (GDS) have been the backbone of content distribution. The GDS acts as a centralised platform for accessing all forms of travel content. While GDS platforms are robust and reliable, they come with certain limitations, such as high participation costs for suppliers and a lack of access to certain low-cost carriers, low-cost web fares and hotel aggregator sites such as booking.com.
Additionally, airlines now prioritise distributing their airfares via NDC, New Distribution Capability. NDC allows airlines to dynamically show fares and availability live at the time of booking, giving much greater control of their inventory. Incorporating NDC has resulted in some challenges. Most airlines have their own NDC standards, and aggregating this, and presenting it back to customers has been far more complicated than anyone anticipated. As the first travel agency to receive NDC certification in Europe, we offer NDC content across 15 airlines, ensuring our clients benefit from the latest available rates and enhanced booking flexibility.
To achieve best value for our customers, we’ve developed an intelligent, integrated system that offers a comprehensive real-time view of content from multiple sources; the GDS, API’s, web fares, direct hotel content and content from aggregators. Once the optimal fare or rate is identified, it can be quoted and booked seamlessly through our in-house systems.
To maintain the highest level of customer satisfaction that we can throughout the booking process, we also place a strong emphasis on post-ticketing activities. We deploy various repricing technologies to track price fluctuations post-ticketing. Through our trusted technology partners, our consultants are automatically alerted when lower rates become available, allowing us to rebook at a better price before passing the savings directly back to you. Fare audits are also regularly carried out to ensure the most cost-effective combinations were applied, and that every opportunity for savings has been explored - even after the trip has taken place.
While our systems provide powerful automation and insight, it’s our people who bring everything together. The combination of our consultant’s deep industry knowledge and experience along with cutting-edge tools allow us to provide first-class service, tailored uniquely to your business and ensuring that every trip is efficient, compliant and cost-effective. Get in touch with the team to see how they can help to streamline your next corporate trip and uncover savings for your company.
Finding the best deals for corporate travel can be challenging, especially without access to the right tools, content sources, or industry insights. At Club Travel Corporate, we take that pressure off your shoulders. Our advanced booking systems, wide-reaching content access, and experienced consultants work together to deliver better value, greater efficiency, and full compliance with your company’s travel policy. Not only that, we will ensure that duty of care is upheld at all times, giving you peace of mind that your employees are in safe hands while travelling.
Allow the consultants at Club Travel Corporate to help you plan your next trip – contact our experts today.
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