Business Travel Resources
Research & Intelligence: Welcome to our Business Travel Management Resources page.
Here you'll find a variety of information to help you plan and manage your company's business travel. Whether you're looking for ways to reduce costs, streamline your booking process or ensure the safety and comfort of your employees on the road, you'll find valuable resources and tips on this page.
From reports and insights to case studies and infographics, our comprehensive collection covers topics such as travel policy development, cost-saving strategies, traveler wellness, sustainability and emerging technologies.
Latest Resources:
Pitney Bowes saves $2.7 million with DecisionSource
Pitney Bowes used BCD Travel's DecisionSource® to improve compliance with its travel policy among its 15,000 employees. The tool helped the company identify departments with the most opportunity for improvement and educate employees on the importance of compliance.
Tension in a trouble zone sparks BCD Travel evacuation plan
An aerospace and defense contractor asked BCD Travel to handle the evacuation of their expatriates in Egypt during political unrest. Planning and cooperation were key to the successful evacuation.
Implementing large account
After integration of two companies into its organization, a multinational food company wanted to streamline its processes and procedures in order to increase efficiency, standardize their global travel policy and reduce costs.
2017 Industry Forecast White Paper
Advito, the consulting arm of BCD Travel, publishes its annual Industry Forecast to give travel and procurement managers a range of projected prices for business travel. They can use the projections to benchmark their corporate travel programs’ successes against key performance indicators and to prepare for supplier negotiations and budgeting.
Mobilize your travel program
Now that mobile is coming to the forefront of business travel, applications are the next step to ensure your company’s success. Mobile has quickly evolved from an instant messaging tool to a personal command center. Your travelers are using them at home and on the road—making mobile devices a great way to connect with colleagues and the program itself.
Mondelez case study
A new case study delves into how Advito’s traveler engagement practice helped Mondelēz International, a global snack foods giant, tap into the power of influencing traveler behavior. Advito, the consulting arm of BCD Travel, helped Mondelēz create a messaging campaign that successfully encouraged employees to spend less—and spend smarter—on every trip.
Mobilize your travel program Infographic
The Mobilize Your Travel Program: Engage with the Mobile World paper features an infographic explaining the mobilization process, and it’s filled with tips and to-dos on how — and why — to take action now.
BCD Travel´s group air services win gold with Visa at 2012 Olympics
Visa Inc. asked BCD Travel to provide group air travel for over 1,000 representatives attending the 2012 Olympic Games in London from over 52 countries. BCD Travel streamlined the process for Visa Inc.
Travel risk management Infographic
Fulfill your duty of care by protecting your travelers, your bottom line, and your reputation.
Travel Risk Management white paper
All business travelers face risk when they travel, and that risk is shared by employers. Today's travel managers fully understand how important travel risk management (TRM) is to their travel program, their travelers and their company. This paper offers expert advice, industry insights and customer case studies on how companies have successfully created travel risk management programs. BCD travel TRM experts offer seven distinct, digestible steps that any company can take to better prepare for travel crises and disruptions.
The rise of the sharing economy
Sharing economy suppliers like Airbnb and Uber have set their sights on corporate business. The time is right for travel managers to consider the merits of sharing economy suppliers. Investigate the sharing economy before dismissing it or banning it in its entirety. Advito's whitepaper explains more about managing travel in a sharing economy.
Come together: Integrating your corporate travel and meetings program
Integrating a company’s transient travel and meetings can seem daunting, but it doesn’t have to be an all-or-nothing proposition. Some of the biggest companies in the world are taking evolutionary steps toward an integrated travel and meetings strategy in search of the savings, increased control and improved traveler satisfaction that integration promises.
VAT reclaim: Don’t leave money on the table
Many companies needlessly leave money on the table each year. How? They fail to fully recoup the refunds they’re due in value added taxes, or VAT. But now we offer a best-in-market fix that sets us apart from our competitors: Automated VAT Reclaim powered by Taxeo.
Hidden spend White Paper: Mining a rich new vein of savings
This paper guides travel managers on how to get to the next level of travel cost control. It offers ways to unearth savings in sub-categories of travel spend, which are estimated to make up more than a quarter of overall travel spend. Hidden Spend details new savings opportunities and describes how travel managers can use technology and behavioral economics to drive travelers toward smart buying decisions. BCD Travel's research shows companies can save 20-25% on these sub-categories if they use the right tools and techniques.
The Traveler Management Survival Guide
The success of every business travel program hinges on the ability to manage travelers. The more you understand about how your travelers think and make decisions, the better you can guide those decisions in support of company goals. This Traveler Management Survival Guide will help you understand key concepts from behavioral economics and link them to the challenges you wrestle with every day.
Traveler Management: How to influence your employees to plan, book and travel smarter
Traveler Management: How to influence your employees to plan, book and travel smarter encourages travel managers to fundamentally change their approach to corporate travel programs, and makes the case that the traditional “command and control” approach to travel management offers fewer opportunities for innovation than building strong relationships with travelers.
Ingram increases online adoption rate to 95 %
BCD Travel recommended Ingram Micro Europe implement Business Online, our online booking tool, as a way to meet both company and traveler needs.
Case Study: Disruption services
We offered Carestream a new class of disruption services that proactively re-accommodates travelers when disruptions occur, which saves time, and traveler satisfaction is higher while stress levels are lower.
Travel Smart videos help increase traveler adoption rates
Creating series of customized videos that engage travelers on a variety of travel program topics resulted in increased online adoption rates, better policy compliance and cost improvements.
SunTrust cuts costs, gains simplicity with Advito’s hotel program solutions
SunTrust Bank, a large regional financial institution in the United States, came to Advito with three goals: to reduce the number of preferred hotels, to contain costs and to make the entire process of negotiating hotel rates simpler and more straightforward.
Implementation Infographic
BCD Travel's certified project leadership methodology makes implementation a smooth process. These are our keys to implementation success.
A client success story: American Standard
To remain competitive in this global economy, companies are mobilizing travelers and challenging corporate travel buyers to find new ways to save money.
Business intelligence Infographic
The ability to understand and use the data that impacts your travel program and making decisions that will have a positive impact. That is business intelligence.