In 2009, leading travel management company (TMC), BCD Travel, is expecting to receive more enquiries from new business travel clients who are now realising the value in attaining professional business travel management for their companies.

The larger the company, the greater the benefit in professional business travel management services, especially for those companies with scores of offices nationwide and hundreds of employees.

The benefit of using a customised online booking system and being able to track which staff members are booking business travel is an invaluable first step in helping a company reduce its business travel outlay, according to BCD Travel Manager, Stephen Finlay.

Following this, there are a host of other long-term benefits that significantly outweigh the cost of outsourcing corporate travel management:
• Your company will have stronger controls on the business travel purchasing process
• Tailored technology tools such as BCD Travel’s business travel booking system means your company can customise its profile on the booking system and enforce restrictions />• Full reporting is available to managers so that staff bookings can be tracked
• Greater efficiency and ease when booking corporate travel and accommodation online
• BCD Travel is able to locate its corporate travel clients anywhere in the world at any time to provide immediate assistance in the event of a terrorist attack or similar crisis
• Spend tracking means business travel clients can negotiate better deals for themselves with their preferred suppliers, such as hotels, due to their documented corporate travel expenditure.